Senior Account Executive - Trading Finance
by Deriv in FinTech & Digital Payments
This is an early-career finance role inside Deriv’s Trading Finance team, working on real regulated entities, real client money obligations, and a monthly close cycle. Deriv operates regulated Trading entities including CFD brokers, VASP/CASP licences, and banking licences, with each entity closing its books every month, filing regulatory submissions on time, and responding to external auditors. Finance outputs feed capital adequacy calculations, client money reports, and Board-level decisions, requiring accurate and timely financial information. The role includes preparing journal entries and reconciliations across the monthly close cycle, following the close calendar, understanding why each entry exists, and identifying errors before review. The successful candidate will learn and apply CFD revenue logic, including A-book and B-book mechanics, at journal-entry level, initially with guidance and progressively with greater independence. The role supports regulated entity accounting across CFD broker, VASP/CASP, and banking-licensed entities, including understanding client money segregation, capital adequacy inputs, and differences in accounting across these entity types. Audit responsibilities include supporting audit preparation, building workpapers, organising supporting schedules, and responding to routine auditor follow-ups with guidance from senior team members. Regulatory responsibilities include contributing accurate financial data behind regulatory submissions in coordination with Compliance and Risk. The role also involves using finance automation tools already in production, including an AI-powered PSP reconciliation platform processing real transactions, a Treasury Management System consolidating 500+ cashbooks across 40+ entities, finance automation eliminating manual processing across procurement, accounts payable, and reconciliation at scale, and a workflow orchestration platform with 400+ internal users. The successful candidate will use reconciliation platforms, workflow orchestration, and future finance automation tools, develop a view on their effectiveness, identify recurring manual steps, and flag process improvement opportunities to the team. Candidates should understand month-end close and have prepared journal entries and reconciliations in a finance role, internship, or accounting programme, with an understanding of why accuracy at close matters. Experience at a CFD broker is a real advantage, particularly experience in a regulated trading environment. Candidates should be able to investigate reconciliation differences, trace why numbers do or do not balance, check their own work before review, and use Excel at a working level, including lookups, pivots, and conditional logic. AI curiosity is expected, including experience using AI tools for drafting commentary, sense-checking output, and interrogating data. A Bachelor’s in Accounting, Finance, Mathematics, or a related field is required, while studying or early-stage ACCA is a genuine advantage. The role involves regulated Trading entities, client money obligations, CFD brokers, VASP/CASP licences, banking licences, regulatory submissions, external audits, Compliance, Risk, capital adequacy, client money reporting, Board-level financial information, finance automation, reconciliation, procurement, accounts payable, Treasury Management System, cashbooks, workflow orchestration, and AI-enabled finance processes.