Treasury oversight

• Set Group treasury policy, risk appetite, and limits. Hold Treasury accountable for execution within them.
• Own capital planning across entities: regulatory minimums, buffers, dividend, and intra-group funding capacity.
• Approve intra-group funding structures — commercially justified, properly documented, regulator-defensible.

Control environment

• Own delegation of authority, approval matrices, segregation of duties, four-eyes payment controls, and evidence retention.
• Ensure reconciliation and attestation sit independently of payment execution.
• Establish internal audit coverage of finance processes and remediate findings on a tracked schedule.

AI, systems, and data

• A defining part of this role, not an add-on. We expect the finance function to run at a headcount that would be implausible without aggressive automation.
• Own the finance systems architecture end to end: ERP and general ledger, billing and revenue recognition, expense and procurement, treasury rails, and the reporting layer above them.
• Define and enforce the finance data model — entity, currency, cost centre, product, counterparty — as the standard upstream systems must conform to.
• Eliminate spreadsheet dependency from the close: automated intercompany elimination, automated bank and blockchain reconciliation, management reporting from a governed warehouse rather than hand-assembled decks.
• Deploy AI where it does real work: document extraction and coding, anomaly and exception detection across full transaction populations, variance commentary drafting, agentic workflows for repetitive control checks. Always with documented human review, auditability, and appropriate data handling.
• Personally use AI tooling to build — models, queries, scripts, prototypes — rather than commissioning it and waiting.
• Measure the function on output: close days, manual journal count, reconciliation exceptions, forecast accuracy, cost of finance as a percentage of revenue.

Essential

• Strong technical accounting capability — IFRS, group consolidation, statutory reporting — with a track record of clean audits. Formal qualification is not required; demonstrated capability is.
• Senior finance leadership in regulated financial services — investment firms, payment institutions, EMIs, or banks — with direct exposure to regulatory capital and reporting.
• Multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction, multi-currency finance, including intercompany and transfer pricing.
• Built or materially rebuilt a finance function: systems, process, and controls. Not just run an inherited one.
• Builds financial models personally, to a standard that survives institutional diligence.
• Strong, current, practical AI capability. You already work this way: you use LLM and agentic tooling daily to write code, query data, build models, and automate process, and you have clear judgement on where it adds value and where it adds risk. Candidates who have only read about this will not be a fit.
• Data-literate at the keyboard: SQL or equivalent, and a working understanding of warehouse and BI architecture.

Desirable

• Digital asset accounting, valuation, and custody reconciliation.
• Institutional equity raise, M&A, or regulatory change of control.
• Cyprus, Swiss, or UAE regulatory environments.

How you work

• Hands-on. For at least the first year, this is a building role, not a supervising one.
• Systems-minded: you look at a manual process and see the design flaw, not the staffing gap.
• Direct and evidence-led. You bring the number, the assumption behind it, and the confidence interval.
• A genuine build role — you design and own the finance function from the ground up, not inherit and maintain one.
• Direct exposure to a multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction institutional platform spanning CySEC, Central Bank of Cyprus, Swiss VQF, UAE, and UK regulatory environments.
• A seat close to the Group's fundraising, board, and investor conversations — your numbers are the single source of truth.
• Competitive compensation package, reflective of a senior leadership hire.
• Limassol-based role, with relocation package and visa support provided.
• A lean, senior team, and an AI-forward operating culture — real autonomy to build systems and automate the function your way.