Group Chief Financial Officer

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🌐 United Arab Emirates (UAE), United Kingdom, +1 more countries – Remote

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (UAE) – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Decentralized Masters

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1 - 10 employees

📚 Education

💳 Fintech

🌐 Web 3

Education • Fintech • Web 3

Decentralized Masters is a leading educational platform specialized in Decentralized Finance (DeFi). It offers top-tier mentorship, advanced learning systems, and strategic tools to help individuals excel in the DeFi markets. The company focuses on equipping both beginners and experienced professionals with the necessary knowledge and skills to navigate the complexities of DeFi and emerging blockchain technologies. Through its comprehensive training programs, Decentralized Masters aims to demystify DeFi, making it accessible and understandable, thereby empowering users to make informed financial decisions and maximize their investment potential.

📋 Description

• Build the sum-of-the-parts valuation framework across every business unit • Structure entities to maximise individual multiples and group synergy value • Upgrade the group from founder-run reporting to institutional-grade financials and diligence readiness • Take the group to market early and convert buyer and adviser feedback into operational change • Build the group equity story, information memorandum and management presentation • Run the capital event process with the CEO and external advisers, including buyer engagement, diligence, negotiation support and post-transaction reporting • Design group-level employee incentive architecture • Stand up the regulated fund and investor infrastructure • Protect and improve the economics of the Decentralized Masters cash engine • Design the holding-company structure across jurisdictions with counsel and tax advisers • Select and implement the group ERP and consolidation platform • Build shared services and establish intercompany and transfer-pricing policy • Produce unit-level P&Ls and allocate capital across paid media, headcount, software, fund seed capital, acquisitions and reserves • Own performance-marketing economics, pricing, offer ladders, cohort behavior, renewals, churn, refunds, chargebacks and payment-plan defaults • Lead fund jurisdiction and structure selection, administration, NAV, audit, fee and carry mechanics, subscriptions, redemptions and investor reporting • Own regulatory compliance across UAE regimes, VARA, ADGM, FTC advertising claims, securities considerations and the wealth and tax planning regulatory perimeter • Own group cash forecasts, liquidity, working capital, banking, merchant accounts, processors and digital-asset treasury policy • Own external counsel, auditor, tax adviser and transaction adviser relationships and budgets • Own corporate filings, licences, renewals, tax deadlines and commercial terms on major agreements

🎯 Requirements

• 10–20 years in finance, including 3+ years as CFO, Group CFO or VP Finance with full P&L and balance sheet accountability • Direct, hands-on experience of a transaction, including sell-side or minority sale processes • Multi-entity holdco or portfolio experience across several unlike businesses • Sum-of-the-parts valuation fluency across software, subscription publishing, services and fee-earning investment businesses • Performance-marketing economics experience, including CAC, LTV, payback, front end versus back end • Multi-jurisdiction experience with real consolidation, ideally including the UAE, the US and Europe • Experience owning relationships with external counsel, auditors and transaction advisers • Fully conversant in IFRS and US GAAP, able to defend technical positions under scrutiny • Demonstrable use of AI tools in finance work • Financial services depth across at least two of publishing, education, software, wealth management or fund management (strongly preferred) • Experience structuring or operating an investment fund (strongly preferred) • PE-backed or PE operating experience (strongly preferred) • Crypto and digital asset exposure (strongly preferred) • Subscription accounting and deferred revenue experience (strongly preferred) • Direct communication, entrepreneurial mindset, comfort with ambiguity and high attention to reporting accuracy • Must be comfortable coordinating legal, regulatory and corporate affairs • Must be actively using AI tools in current work

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base, depending on transaction and holdco experience • Performance bonus tied to enterprise value creation, not just operating margin • A transaction bonus on a successful capital event • Equity participation under the C-suite framework • UAE-based roles are tax-free, which materially changes take-home pay • Direct access to the founders • A peer relationship with the Group COO • Genuine authority over how capital is deployed • An inherited finance team