Job Title: Director and Chief Executive Officer Electronic Money Institution (UK)
About Company:
The company is a liquidity and technology provider of solutions for the crypto and foreign exchange (FX) industry. The company specializes in the sphere of B2B services and products catering to a wide range of clients including large licensed brokers crypto exchanges crypto brokers forex brokers hedge and crypto funds and professional managers.
Requirements:
- 10 years of experience in the Payment Industry including experience in EMI.
- Extensive knowledge of payment ecosystems.
- Deep technical understanding of payment processing transaction settlement and banking infrastructure.
- Strong financial literacy including P&L management risk assessment and business forecasting.
Responsibilities:
- Lead a fully licensed Electronic Money Institution (EMI) from the ground up overseeing its operational technical and strategic direction.
- Develop and execute growth strategies including product positioning market expansion and competitive pricing models.
- Build and manage a highperformance team ensuring the company is well structured.
- Act as the primary liaison with financial partners vendors and key stakeholders negotiating contracts and strategic partnerships to enhance the institutions service offerings.
- Architect and implement a robust payments infrastructure integrating payment gateways acquiring solutions banking APIs and settlement networks.
- Ensure the EMI has a fully operational transaction processing ecosystem including payment rails card issuance IBAN account provisioning and crossborder settlements.
- Define and oversee pricing structures liquidity management and reconciliation processes for all payment services.
- Implement efficient treasury operations ensuring seamless fund flow management between client accounts banking partners and liquidity providers.
- Oversee the performance of core financial technologies.
- Manage external banking and financial relationships ensuring strong partnerships with correspondent banks liquidity providers and payment networks.
- Leading daytoday operations and growing the business.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary based on knowledge and experience.
- 24 days of annual leave (as per group policy).
- Flexible working options including remote and hybrid work arrangements.
- Support for continuing education blockchain certifications and regulatory training (after one year with the company).
- Performancebased annual bonuses tied to compliance KPIs.