Group Chief Compliance & Legal Officer

Reporting Line Reports directly to the CEO. Leads a compliance function that includes the Group Paralegal (direct report) and all compliance personnel embedded across the CXM Group of Companies. Location Remote (EU timezone preferred) This is a fully remote role. EU timezone alignment is preferred to ensure effective overlap with key offices across the CXM Group. Occasional travel may be required for regulator meetings and visits to regional teams. General Purpose CXM Group is building a compliance architecture across six business lines and multiple jurisdictions simultaneously — this role owns that build. The group is at an inflection point: multiple licensing processes are running in parallel, including a Norwegian crypto exchange being structured for MiCA passporting, a South African broker-dealer acquisition, a VARA application in the UAE, and prospective acquisitions in LATAM and Southeast Asia. The CCO exists to hold this together — ensuring that a fast-moving, multi-asset, multi-jurisdictional expansion programme stays regulatorily sound, that new entities are acquired and integrated without compliance exposure, and that the group's licensing pipeline converts into durable, operating authorisations across FX, CFDs, crypto, prediction markets, prop trading, and education. This is a role for someone who has operated across tier-one and emerging-market regimes simultaneously and has the regulator-facing credibility to show for it. Specific Objectives Build and deploy a group-wide compliance reporting framework Within the first three months, establish a structured compliance reporting framework covering all regulated entities across the CXM Group — including defined reporting lines, cadences, and escalation paths that give the CEO and board clear, timely visibility of the group's regulatory posture. Create an AI-enabled legal document database Within six months, deliver a searchable, indexed, and cross-referenced repository of all legal documentation across the group — structured for AI-assisted retrieval so that agreements, licences, policies, and regulatory correspondence can be surfaced and compared at speed. Establish and embed internal legal SLAs Within the first three months, define and operationalise service-level agreements for all internal legal workflows: standard contract reviews turned in 24 hours; new contract drafting completed within 48 hours; policy creation on agreed timelines. Compliance with these SLAs to be tracked and reported. Deploy legal and compliance risk monitoring tools Within six months, implement risk monitoring tooling across all business verticals and target markets — covering FX, CFDs, crypto, prediction markets, prop trading, and education — providing structured, ongoing visibility of regulatory and legal risk exposure across the group. Drive the live licensing and acquisition pipeline to defined milestones Own delivery against the group's active regulatory and M&A programme: South African broker-dealer acquisition and VARA (UAE) licence obtained by Q3 2026; VARA application submitted by Q4 2026 and licence granted by Q3 2027; MiCA passporting for the Norwegian crypto exchange secured by Q2 2027; LATAM and Southeast Asia acquisition targets scoped and structured by Q1 2027. Key Activities Oversee group-wide legal and compliance communications Manage all inbound and outbound communications across the compliance and legal function — ensuring consistency of position, appropriate escalation, and clear audit trails across all CXM Group entities. Monitor brand, regulatory, and compliance risk Run ongoing monitoring of online brand exposure and regulatory risk signals across all business verticals and target markets, using dedicated tooling to surface issues before they become regulatory events. Research target markets and emerging regulatory requirements Conduct structured research on new and existing jurisdictions — tracking legislative developments, regulatory guidance, and enforcement trends across FX, CFDs, crypto, prediction markets, prop trading, and education to keep the group's risk exposure visible and current. Build and maintain reporting infrastructure with Ops and IT Work cross-functionally with Operations and IT to design, implement, and maintain the compliance reporting systems and dashboards needed to give leadership real-time visibility of the group's regulatory posture. Inventory, organise, and analyse all group legal agreements Own the end-to-end legal document function: audit existing agreements across all entities, build and maintain the AI-enabled document repository, and ensure all contracts are indexed, cross-referenced, and accessible for rapid retrieval. Manage regulatory relationships and respond to inquiries Serve as the primary point of contact for regulators across all jurisdictions — preparing responses, managing ongoing dialogue, and coordinating regulator visits or meetings with appropriate precision and consistency. Set and enforce contract thr

Oversee the group-wide legal and compliance function, including the Group Paralegal and compliance personnel across CXM Group entities; build and deploy a group-wide compliance reporting framework with defined lines, cadences, and escalation paths for board visibility; develop an AI-enabled legal document repository with searchable, indexed, cross-referenced retrieval; set and operationalize internal legal SLAs for contract reviews, drafting, and policy creation; implement risk monitoring tools across all business lines and markets to provide ongoing visibility of regulatory and legal risk; drive licensing and M&A pipeline to milestones (e.g., VARA license in UAE, MiCA passporting for Norwegian exchange, LATAM and SEA targets); manage regulatory communications and regulator relationships; conduct structured research on market regulation and enforcement trends; design and maintain reporting infrastructure with Operations and IT; manage end-to-end legal agreements, ensuring indexing and rapid retrieval; coordinate regulator inquiries and visits with precision and consistency.