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 counterparties 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.
Requirements
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 within 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.
Why Join Portofino Technologies
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.
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