Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will take ownership of group accounting, financial control, liquidity, reporting and planning. You will build scalable finance processes, produce accurate management information, manage liquidity and forecasts, coordinate statutory obligations, and provide the CEO with reliable financial insight.
Requirements
- Deep hands-on accounting experience in a trading environment.
- Experience in a trading business, ideally a hedge fund, commodity trading firm, proprietary trading firm, market maker or digital asset business.
- Ability to understand financial processes from transaction and source data through the general ledger, management accounts and reporting.
- Experience with balance sheet control, liquidity management, cash forecasting, budgeting and financial forecasting.
- Track record of building and automating finance processes.
- Commercial understanding of trading-business P&L, costs, capital usage, liquidity and return on capital.
- Ability to perform detailed accounting work and commercial analysis.
- ACA or ACCA training.
Responsibilities
- Own the accounting function, including journal entries, general ledger management, reconciliations and transaction recording.
- Lead the monthly close and consolidation process and produce management accounts, P&L, balance sheet and cash-flow reports.
- Oversee financial flows, reconcile them to source systems and counterparties, and maintain financial controls and data quality.
- Design, implement and automate accounting, reconciliation and reporting processes.
- Manage liquidity and treasury activities, including cash forecasting, funding requirements and liquidity planning.
- Build and maintain budgets, forecasts, management reporting and KPIs.
- Coordinate payroll, tax, statutory accounts and external advisers across group entities.
- Reconcile financial and trading data with Trading, Sales and Technology.
- Provide decision-ready financial information to the CEO and resolve financial issues.
- Improve finance processes through automation and external support while retaining responsibility for data accuracy.