Head of Finance

Senior finance role leading accounting, reporting, liquidity and financial planning across a fast-growing trading firm.

Working closely with the CEO and leadership team, you will take full ownership of group accounting, financial control, liquidity,
reporting and planning
, ensuring the business has accurate financial information and robust, scalable finance processes.

Responsibilities

• Take hands-on ownership of the accounting function
  , including journal entries, general ledger, bank and balance sheet reconciliations, and accurate recording of transactions across the group's entities.
• Own the monthly close and consolidation process end-to-end
  , producing accurate management accounts, P&L, balance sheet and cash-flow reporting.
• Maintain end-to-end oversight of financial flows across the business
  , reconciling them back to source systems and counter parties and maintaining strong financial controls and data quality.
• Design, implement and automate accounting, reconciliation and reporting processes
  , improving accuracy, efficiency and scalability.
• Own liquidity and treasury management
  , including cash and liquidity forecasting, funding requirements, balance sheet duration and proactive liquidity planning and monitoring.
• Personally build and maintain the company's budgets, forecasts, management reporting and KPIs
  , providing a clear view of revenue, costs, headcount, capital requirements and profitability by business line.
• Coordinate payroll, tax, statutory accounts and external advisers across group entities, ensuring financial and regulatory reporting requirements are met.
• Work directly with Trading, Sales and Technology to reconcile financial and trading data, understand P&L drivers and continuously improve the quality of financial information.
• Provide the CEO with clear, reliable and decision-ready financial information
  , taking ownership of financial issues through to resolution.
• Continuously improve finance processes through automation and appropriate external support
  , while retaining ownership of the accuracy and integrity of the group's financial information.

Must Have

• Deep, hands-on accounting experience in a trading environment. You must be comfortable personally posting journal entries, performing reconciliations, running month-end close and producing consolidated management accounts.
• Experience with in a trading business
  , ideally a hedge fund, commodity trading firm, proprietary trading firm, market maker or digital asset business.
• The ability to understand a financial process from transaction and source data through to the general ledger, management accounts and reporting
  , and continuously improve financial controls and data quality.
• Strong experience with balance sheet control, liquidity management, cash forecasting, budgeting and financial forecasting
  .
• A track record of building and automating finance processes
  . You should be comfortable doing a process yourself before designing how it can be automated or delegated.
• Strong commercial understanding of trading businesses, including P&L, costs, capital usage, liquidity and return on capital
  .
• The ability to move between detailed accounting work and commercial analysis: from investigating an individual reconciliation break to discussing business-line profitability and capital allocation with the CEO.
• A strong sense of ownership and accountability for the numbers
  . If something does not reconcile or cannot be explained, you will be expected to investigate it and resolve it.
• ACA/ ACCA trained

Personality

• Highly proactive, pragmatic, and execution-oriented.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and influencing without authority.
• Commercial mindset with strong analytical skills and sound business judgement.

This is a high‑impact role at the centre of the firm, offering deep exposure to leadership decision‑making, trading operations, and the inner workings of a global crypto market‑making business. The role is expected to evolve with the company and offers a clear path to broader leadership responsibilities.