Group Chief Compliance & Legal Officer

About the role

The Group Chief Compliance & Legal Officer will lead CXM Group’s compliance function across six business lines and multiple jurisdictions. Reporting directly to the CEO, this fully remote position ensures the company’s rapid expansion into crypto, FX, CFDs, prediction markets, prop trading and education remains regulatorily sound.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement a group‑wide compliance reporting framework with clear lines, cadences and escalation paths.
• Deliver an AI‑enabled, searchable legal document repository covering agreements, licences, policies and regulatory correspondence.
• Define and operationalise internal legal service‑level agreements for contract reviews, drafting and policy creation.
• Deploy risk‑monitoring tools across all verticals to provide ongoing visibility of regulatory and legal exposure.
• Own the live licensing and acquisition pipeline, driving milestones for South African broker‑dealer acquisition, VARA (UAE) application and other global initiatives.

Required profile

• Proven experience operating across tier‑one and emerging‑market regulatory regimes simultaneously.
• Demonstrated regulator‑facing credibility with a track record of delivering licensing programmes.
• Strong leadership skills to manage a paralegal and embedded compliance personnel across the group.
• Willingness to travel occasionally for regulator meetings and regional team visits.

Required skills