CFO / Financial Director (International Payments Business)

# CFO / Financial Director (International Payments Business) > Alex Staff Agency · Cyprus (Remote) · — · Posted 2026-07-15 **Workplace:** remote ## Description **Company:** An established international payments company operating in cross-border money transfers across multiple jurisdictions. Company details will be shared with shortlisted candidates. **About the Role:** We're looking for a hands-on financial leader who owns the full financial architecture of a payments business: cash flow, treasury, banking relationships, PSP infrastructure, compliance, and corporate structure across multiple jurisdictions. This role sits at the intersection of finance, treasury, payment operations, compliance, and legal/corporate structure. You'll work closely with the owners, turning the financial picture of the business into something transparent and actionable for decision-making. This is a hands-on role: you'll personally dig into the numbers, payment flows, bank statements, PSP reports, and contracts, and define what needs to change. **Responsibilities:** - Manage treasury and cash flow across banks, PSPs, legal entities, and currencies; build cash flow forecasts and monitor liquidity in real time - Prepare management reporting: Balance Sheet, P&L, indirect Cash Flow, consolidated across entities, regions, or business lines - Build and maintain relationships with banks, PSPs, auditors, and legal/compliance advisors - Manage payment routes, settlements, commissions, rolling reserves, chargebacks, and reconciliation - Define requirements for reporting and internal finance tools (CRM/ERP/BI) as part of the finance function's ownership - Support corporate structure, legal entity management, and compliance readiness across jurisdictions - Act as a financial partner to the owners on key business decisions ## Requirements - Recent, hands-on experience (last 2-3 years) with the Russian market: payment routes, banking, compliance, and regulatory constraints. Experience limited to before 2022 is not sufficient. - Real ownership of treasury and cash flow: managing liquidity across multiple banks, PSPs, entities, and currencies - Background in payments, fintech, PSP, iGaming/betting/gambling, high-risk merchant business, forex/brokerage, or crypto payments (with a strong compliance and treasury component) - Experience with multi-jurisdiction structures: several legal entities, banks, currencies, and regulatory environments - Comfortable working with incomplete data and unstructured processes, with the ability to build clarity from scratch **Nice to Have:** - Experience in iGaming, betting, or affiliate/marketing holding structures - Experience with Cyprus, CIS, Canada, Hong Kong, Curaçao, Anjouan, or the EU - Experience building a finance function from scratch or managing a small team - Experience automating reporting or implementing BI/dashboard tools - English fluency for talks with banks, PSPs, and auditors - Experience in a lean international company with hands-on involvement in daily ## Benefits - Direct access to the owners and real influence on the business - The chance to shape the finance function as the company grows, and expand your scope over time - A stable, established business in a growing market - Compensation discussed individually based on experience ## Apply [Apply at Alex Staff Agency](https://apply.workable.com/alex-staff-agency-careers/j/0348D380A8/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)