Group Chief Compliance, Legal Officer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

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CXM

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2015

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

Finance • Fintech

CXM is an online financial services firm that operates as a brokerage platform offering Forex and CFD trading to clients. The company enforces regional access restrictions for regulatory compliance and provides risk warnings about the high-risk nature of leveraged trading. CXM also offers customer support for access and compliance inquiries.

📋 Description

• Report directly to the CEO • Lead the compliance function, including the Group Paralegal and compliance personnel embedded across CXM Group companies • Build and deploy a group-wide compliance reporting framework covering all regulated entities • Create a searchable, indexed, cross-referenced AI-enabled legal document database • Define and operationalise internal legal service-level agreements • Track contract-review and contract-drafting throughput against 24-hour and 48-hour standards • Deploy legal and compliance risk-monitoring tools across FX, CFDs, crypto, prediction markets, prop trading, and education • Drive the South African broker-dealer acquisition and VARA licensing programme to defined milestones • Secure MiCA passporting for the Norwegian crypto exchange • Scope and structure acquisition targets in LATAM and Southeast Asia • Oversee group-wide legal and compliance communications and audit trails • Monitor brand, regulatory, and compliance risk across business verticals and target markets • Research legislation, regulatory guidance, and enforcement trends across jurisdictions • Build and maintain compliance reporting infrastructure with Operations and IT • Inventory, organise, analyse, index, and maintain legal agreements across the group • Serve as primary point of contact for regulators across all jurisdictions • Prepare regulatory responses and coordinate regulator visits and meetings • Personally handle high-stakes, novel, or regulator-facing agreements

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated command of tier-one regimes: CySEC, FCA, NFA, and ASIC • Working knowledge of offshore and emerging-market frameworks including UAE, Mauritius, Seychelles, SVG, and Cambodia • Working knowledge of MiCA and global crypto licensing regimes • Direct regulator engagement experience, including managing inquiries, coordinating responses, and representing a group’s compliance posture • M&A and licensing fluency, including acquisition structuring and entity integration from a compliance perspective • Ability to assess regulatory exposure and coordinate with external counsel • Experience deploying AI tooling in legal workflows is a strong advantage • Ability to set standards, delegate effectively, and hold a team accountable for throughput • Experience operating across multiple jurisdictions, asset classes, and regulated entities • Ability to manage parallel licensing processes and active regulator relationships

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote; no relocation or commute • Occasional travel for regulator meetings and visits to regional teams • Base salary plus bonus tied to agreed KPIs • Direct reporting line to the CEO • Group-level functional authority over compliance personnel across all CXM Group entities • Opportunity to build a multi-jurisdictional compliance architecture from scratch • Opportunity to build an AI-enabled legal operations function • Direct involvement in live licensing and M&A transactions • Fully remote work from wherever you do your best thinking