Our client is a retail CFD and FX brokerage headquartered in Dubai and licensed under the Saint Lucia Financial Services Authority. The platform runs on MetaTrader 5 with a Centroid CS360 bridge and is positioned to serve retail clients across South Asia and Africa through an Introducing Broker–led acquisition model. They are scaling rapidly in 2026 and need a finance leader who can build and own the accounting function from day one — not maintain someone else's ledger. THE ROLE This is the senior accounting hire for the brokerage. You will own the books, the controls, the regulatory reporting, and the day-to-day cash and reconciliation cycle that keeps a CFD broker solvent and compliant. You will work directly with the CEO, Chairman, and Risk on the numbers that drive every operational decision — client fund balances, P&L by trading book, IB commission accruals, PSP settlement positions, and FSA capital adequacy. In addition to the brokerage, you will be the dedicated accountant for the founding family's personal balance sheet — a multi-asset portfolio spanning real estate, listed equities, commodities, private investments, and other holdings. The brokerage and the family books must be kept strictly separate, but both sit under your ownership. This is a single integrated role, not two part-time ones. This is not a back-office bookkeeping role. It requires some who can build up an appropriate chart of accounts, lock down segregation of client money, close the month on time, produce financial statements the regulator and the auditor will sign off on, and simultaneously maintain a clean, audit-ready picture of the owners' personal wealth. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Books, Ledger & Month-End * Own the chart of accounts, journal templates, trial balance, and general ledger across operating accounts, client money accounts, and IB commission liability accounts. • Run a clean monthly close within 10 business days, including accruals, prepayments, FX revaluation, and intercompany eliminations where applicable. • Produce statutory financial statements in line with IFRS for the St. Lucia entity and any future regulated subsidiaries. Client Money & Fund Segregation • Maintain daily reconciliation of client money balances across MT5 (per Centroid bridge data), the CRM wallet ledger, and the segregated client bank/PSP accounts. Any variance must be identified and resolved same-day. • Enforce CASS-equivalent client money rules as required by the St. Lucia FSA: segregation, trust account designations, and timely client money calculations. • Produce the daily client money report and escalate any breach to the CFO and Chief Compliance Officer immediately. PSP, Bank & Crypto Settlement Reconciliation • Run daily reconciliations across all payment rails — card PSPs, bank wires, and crypto rails (CoinsPaid and any future crypto PSPs) — matching CRM deposit and withdrawal records to PSP settlement files and bank statements. • Track chargebacks, PSP rolling reserves, FX conversion spreads, and processor fees. Build a monthly PSP cost analysis to inform routing decisions. • Handle crypto deposit and withdrawal accounting, including stablecoin valuation, on-chain confirmation matching, and treatment of crypto-to-fiat conversion gains and losses. Trading P&L & Risk-Aligned Reporting • Produce daily P&L by trading book (A-book pass-through, B-book retained risk where applicable), spread markup capture, swap revenue, commission revenue, and overnight financing. • Reconcile trading P&L feeds from MT5 and the bridge against the GL — every cent of client deposits, trades, and settlement movements must tie out to the books. • Work with the Dealing Desk and Risk to ensure hedging activity, LP settlement, and B-book exposure are correctly recorded and not double-counted. IB Commission Accounting • Own the IB commission accrual and payout cycle: validate CRM-calculated commissions, post accruals, manage the IB liability ledger, and process payouts on schedule. • Ensure IB tier movements and multi-level partner structures are reflected accurately in the books and that no commission is paid out twice or missed. Regulatory & Audit • Prepare FSA financial returns and capital adequacy reporting on the regulator's required cadence. Maintain the working files that support every line of those returns. • Manage the annual external audit end to end: schedules, lead schedules, audit queries, and final sign-off. • Liaise with Compliance on AML transaction monitoring data, PEP and sanctions screening logs, and the audit trail Compliance and the regulator will request. Treasury & Cash Management • Run operational cash forecasts, manage the corporate banking relationship once active, and ensure liquidity is sufficient to cover client withdrawals, LP margin calls, and operating expenses. • Monitor the firm's working capital position and flag funding requirements to the CFO with at least 30 days of forward visibility. Family Office — Owners' Personal Accounting • Maintain a clean, separate set of books for the personal assets and liabilities of the founding family. The brokerage entity ledger and the family books are strictly ring-fenced and never commingled. • Produce a consolidated personal balance sheet and net worth statement covering real estate holdings (UAE and international), listed equities and managed portfolios, commodities (physical and paper positions), private investments, business equity stakes, cash and bank balances, and personal liabilities including mortgages and financing. • Reconcile each asset class to its source of truth — title deeds and rent rolls for real estate, broker statements for equities, vault receipts or futures statements for commodities, cap tables for private holdings — and update valuations on a defined cadence (monthly for liquid, quarterly for illiquid). • Track rental income, dividends, interest, capital gains, and FX impact across the family portfolio, with monthly performance reporting to the owners. • Manage personal expense flows where they intersect with investment activity, ensuring clean separation between corporate, brokerage, and personal transactions at the bank-account and entity level. • Coordinate with the family's external advisors — real estate agents, brokers, lawyers, and tax counsel — to gather the supporting documentation needed for the personal books. • Maintain absolute discretion in handling personal financial information. This is non-negotiable. Controls, Process & Systems • Build and document internal financial controls: segregation of duties, approval matrices, payment authorization workflows, and journal posting controls. • Own the accounting software stack (Xero, QuickBooks, NetSuite, or similar — final selection to be confirmed) and the integration points to the CRM and the bridge for automated GL feeds. • Scale the finance function as the brokerage scales — both in headcount and in geographic footprint as additional licenses are added.

WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING Must-Have • A professional accounting qualification: ACCA, ACA, CPA, CA, or CIMA. Fully qualified, not part-qualified. • Minimum 5 years post-qualification experience, of which at least 2 must be in a regulated retail CFD, forex, or securities brokerage. This is non-negotiable. Generic corporate accounting experience does not substitute for brokerage finance experience. • Direct hands-on experience with MT4 or MT5 P&L data, trade ledgers, and the reconciliation between platform data and the GL. • Working knowledge of client money segregation rules under FCA CASS, CySEC, ASIC, or equivalent frameworks. * Knowledge of the St. Lucia FSA framework is a strong plus. • Demonstrated ownership of a monthly close cycle and statutory financial statement preparation under IFRS. • PSP and crypto-rail reconciliation experience, including crypto deposit accounting and stable coin treatment. • Advanced Excel — pivot tables, lookups, and the ability to build a daily reconciliation pack from raw exports without a BI tool. Strong Preference • Experience setting up the finance function at a new brokerage from a blank ledger — chart of accounts design, software selection, controls build. • Familiarity with CRM platforms used in the FX industry (Syntellicore, FXBO, Brokeret, Trader's Room) and the data exports they produce. • Experience working with a Centroid, oneZero, or PrimeXM bridge data feed. • Prior involvement in an external audit at a CFD or FX broker, ideally as the in-house lead. • Experience accounting for a family office, HNW individual, or private investment portfolio — including real estate, listed securities, and alternative assets. • UAE or wider GCC residency and ability to work on-site in Dubai. We are not building a remote finance function. Personal Attributes • High personal integrity. Client money is held in trust. They need someone who treats it that way without being asked. • Tolerance for ambiguity. They are pre-launch — process documentation will be written by you, not handed to you. • Operator mindset. You should be comfortable digging into MT5 trade reports, PSP settlement files, and bank statements yourself rather than waiting for someone to summarise them. • Discretion. You will see every number in the business and every number on the family's personal balance sheet. That stays in the room. Always. WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE First 90 days • Chart of accounts approved, accounting software selected and configured, opening balances posted, daily client money reconciliation running cleanly, and the first monthly close completed within 10 business days. Full month-end close in 7 business days, all PSP and crypto rails reconciling daily without manual intervention, IB commission cycle running on auto-accrual, and the first FSA financial return filed without queries. First 6 months • First full statutory audit completed cleanly with no material findings. Finance function staffed and structured to support a 10x increase in client volume. • Step up into a financial controller position managing a team and relevant risk efficiently.