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, and its technology hub in Cyprus.
We are hiring a Global Head of Risk & Trading to lead the risk domain across Traze and ZFX. This role will own the strategy, structure, and execution across Risk, Trading, Dealing, and Trading Anti-Fraud, while also bringing strong technical capability in quantitative modelling, automation, and client behaviour analysis.
The Role:
This is a senior leadership role for a commercially aware and technically strong risk professional who can build structure, improve controls, and strengthen decision-making across the trading business. The successful candidate will lead the overall risk framework while remaining close to the detail on client flow, fraud patterns, dealing oversight, and quantitative monitoring.
The role is suited to an established Head of Risk, but it may also fit a high-performing Risk Manager or Senior Specialist ready to step into a broader leadership position.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the global Risk, Trading, Dealing, and Trading Anti-Fraud function across Traze and ZFX.
- Define and implement the overall strategy, governance model, operating structure, and control framework across the risk domain.
- Oversee real-time trading risk across FX and CFD products, including exposure management, pricing integrity, and high-volatility instruments.
- Analyse client trading behaviour and order flow to identify risk patterns, toxic flow, abuse indicators, and commercial opportunities.
- Build and implement quantitative models for client classification, order-flow analysis, predictive risk monitoring, and surveillance.
- Drive automation across alerts, dashboards, logic engines, monitoring tools, and workflows to improve speed, consistency, and control.
- Detect and respond to trading abuse, including latency arbitrage, bonus abuse, toxic trading behaviour, and other high-risk activity.
- Assess risk in new products, execution models, liquidity arrangements, and promotional campaigns, and recommend mitigation strategies.
- Build scalable processes, reporting standards, and cross-functional ways of working across the business.
- Partner with Product, Commercial, Compliance, Finance, and Technology teams to align risk controls with business growth.
Requirements
- Proven experience in FX/CFD risk, trading, dealing, or trade surveillance within a brokerage, fintech, liquidity provider, investment banking environment, or similar trading business.
- Strong understanding of FX/CFD products, pricing, liquidity, order-flow dynamics, and execution risk.
- Demonstrated ability to categorise client trading behaviour and translate this into practical risk, dealing, hedging, or fraud-control actions.
- Deep knowledge of toxic flow, latency arbitrage, bonus abuse, scalping, fraud patterns, and broader client-risk behaviours.
- Strong quantitative and analytical capability, with experience in modelling, behavioural analysis, and risk monitoring.
- Practical experience with Python, SQL, or similar tools used in automation, analytics, and quantitative risk work.
- Ability to build teams, create structure, and lead a global function at both strategic and hands-on level.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred:
- Current Head of Risk, Senior Risk Specialist, or Risk Manager ready for a step up.
- Highly technical candidate with a background in Mathematics, Quantitative Finance, Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related field.
- Experience from retail brokerage, fintech, liquidity providers, PSPs, investment banking, or adjacent financial markets businesses.
- Ambitious, hands-on, and comfortable building processes, frameworks, and structure from the ground up.
What Success Looks Like:
In this role, you will be expected to bring a clear approach to client behaviour categorisation, define what strong risk team design looks like, and introduce practical automation that improves how toxic or abusive clients are identified and managed. The role requires someone who can combine strategic leadership with technical depth and take ownership of building a stronger global risk function.
