Finance & Accounting Manager

The problem.

The firm's trading records are precise, continuous and machine-generated. The accounting records have to agree with them and also satisfy an auditor who has never seen a funding payment. Bridging those two worlds, without either one quietly rounding, is the work.

What you would do.

• Own the accounting close, on a cycle that reflects a market that never shuts.
• Build the bridge between the trading book of record and the ledger, so the two reconcile exactly rather than approximately.
• Own attribution: which activity produced which movement, at a granularity that supports a decision rather than a summary.
• Manage the audit relationship and the tax position, working with counsel on treatment where the answer is not settled.
• Own the operating budget and the cost of the infrastructure. Be the person who asks whether a line is still earning its place.

What we would want evidence of.

• You have kept books for a trading business, or learned an unfamiliar asset class properly enough that the auditor stopped asking.
• You are precise about rounding, and have found a place where it accumulated.
• You can work from a machine-generated source of truth rather than from statements.
• You have managed an audit through a period where the treatment of something was genuinely unclear.
• You can explain a number to a person who will act on it.

What would make this a bad fit.

This role is a poor fit if you want an established finance function and a system already chosen. You would be choosing it.

This role is a poor fit if reconciling to the last unit strikes you as excessive. It is the standard here and it will not move.