Global Head of Risk & Trading

About the Company

Zeal Group is a fintech group operating multi-asset trading businesses and technology solutions across global markets. Founded in 2017, the company has grown to more than 500 employees worldwide, with offices across Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and South America.

Responsibilities

• Lead the global Risk, Trading, Dealing, and Trading Anti-Fraud function across Traze and ZFX
• Define and implement the overall strategy, governance model, and control framework
• Oversee real-time trading risk across FX and CFD products, including exposure management and pricing integrity
• Analyse client trading behaviour and order flow to identify risk patterns, toxic flow, and abuse indicators
• Build and implement quantitative models for client classification and predictive risk monitoring
• Drive automation across alerts, dashboards, logic engines, and monitoring tools
• Detect and respond to trading abuse, including latency arbitrage and bonus abuse
• Partner with Product, Commercial, Compliance, Finance, and Technology teams

Requirements

• Proven experience in FX/CFD risk, trading, dealing, or trade surveillance
• Strong understanding of FX/CFD products, pricing, liquidity, and order-flow dynamics
• Demonstrated ability to categorise client trading behaviour into practical risk or fraud-control actions
• Deep knowledge of toxic flow, latency arbitrage, and bonus abuse
• Strong quantitative and analytical capability in modelling and behavioural analysis
• Practical experience with Python and SQL
• Ability to build teams and lead a global function at both strategic and hands-on levels

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in Mathematics, Quantitative Finance, Computer Science, Engineering, or Machine Learning
• Experience from retail brokerage, fintech, liquidity providers, or investment banking
• Experience building processes and frameworks from the ground up