Head of Dealing
NEXT Ventures
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Job Description
Roles & Responsibilities
As the Head of Dealing, you will lead FNmarkets trading, dealing, and trade-risk operations, managing A/B/Hybrid books, execution quality, and risk controls to protect the business and optimise profitability. You will oversee liquidity, pricing, routing, and trading infrastructure; ensuring stable systems, fast execution, and strong governance across all regions. You will guide the MT5 and trading infrastructure teams, detect abusive trading behaviour, and drive data-led automation for better monitoring and decision-making. Working closely with Compliance, Product, Technology, BI, Risk, and Commercial, you will ensure alignment, operational excellence, and a seamless, high-integrity trading environment.
How You ll Make An Impact
Trading & Dealing Leadership
Lead FNmarkets Trading & Dealing / Trade Risk Operations (TRO) teams with full ownership of book management, execution quality, and risk oversight.
Establish strong governance for trading operations, ensuring policies, workflows, and decision frameworks are consistently followed across all teams and regions.
Book Management & Risk Oversight
Manage A-Book, B-Book, and Hybrid flow allocation strategies to optimize profitability while maintaining a strong risk posture.
Continuously monitor exposure, client PnL distribution, instrument-level risk, and emerging trading patterns.
Execute hedging strategies, manual or automated, to maintain controlled exposure and prevent adverse market impact.
Liquidity & Execution Management
Oversee liquidity provider (LP) relationships, ensuring robust routing, price competitiveness, and stable liquidity under all market conditions.
Optimise pricing streams, slippage, markups, and bridge settings to deliver best execution and drive tighter, more consistent spreads for clients.
Review LP performance through data-driven scorecards and enforce SLA expectations.
Trading Infrastructure & Technology Ownership
Lead the Trading Infrastructure team responsible for MT5 servers, groups, symbols, bridge/gateway configuration, pricing feeds, and platform trading conditions.
Ensure that system architecture, routing logic, and platform settings align with risk, compliance, and commercial objectives.
Drive improvements in latency, throughput, and server resilience.
System Stability, Latency & Execution Performance
Maintain high uptime for all trading systems, ensuring resilient connectivity and global redundancy across regions and legal entities.
Troubleshoot and resolve execution-related issues, VPS/server incidents, and platform errors with urgency and precision.
Collaborate with Tech and DevOps to ensure low-latency execution and efficient system scaling during peak volumes.
Abusive Trading Detection & Policy Enforcement
Detect, investigate, and mitigate abusive or toxic trading behaviors such as latency arbitrage, platform manipulation, or harmful EA strategies.
Oversee validation processes for swaps, spreads, commissions, corporate actions, symbol settings, and other trading conditions.
Ensure dealing policies are strictly followed and updated to reflect emerging market or regulatory risks.
Dealing Desk Operations Management
Lead daily dealing desk operations including shift scheduling, handovers, real-time monitoring, and incident escalations.
Review daily/weekly/monthly operations reports covering execution performance, risk trends, client segments, and profitability insights.
Ensure smooth 24/5 coverage with clear escalation points and accountability.
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Governance
Work closely with Compliance, Product, Technology, BI, Risk, and Commercial teams to ensure alignment across trading operations.
Participate in governance discussions around new products, trading conditions, regional entities, and regulatory expectations.
Analytics, BI Automation & Operational Intelligence
Drive the creation and continuous improvement of BI dashboards, automated alerts, monitoring tools, and risk-detection systems.
Leverage data insights to enhance execution performance, reduce manual workload, and improve proactive detection of anomalies.
Desired Candidate Profile
What You Bring
8 12 years of experience in CFD/FX dealing, risk operations, trading infrastructure, and liquidity management. Deep expertise in multi-book management (A-Book, B-Book, Hybrid) and market-making environments. Strong knowledge of MT5 Admin/Manager, bridges/gateways (PrimeXM, oneZero, Centroid), RMS/OMS systems, exposure monitoring, hedging structures, and pricing streams. Experience leading trading monitoring teams, infrastructure teams, and BI analysts. Strong analytical ability, flow analysis, and risk interpretation skills. Familiarity with regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions (EU, offshore, APAC). Ability to build dashboards, alerts, and automation workflows with BI/Tech teams. Excellent communication, leadership, and cross-department collaboration abilities.
Your X-Factor
Strategic risk orchestrator who can balance profitability and protection through intelligent A/B/Hybrid book management, client behaviour analysis, and timely hedging.
Deep technical expertise in MT5, bridging, liquidity routing, and execution paths, ensuring tight spreads, high uptime, and flawless execution performance.
Strong data-driven operator who leverages BI dashboards, alerts, and automation to drive proactive risk detection, smarter decision-making, and operational efficiency.
Governance-focused leader who builds disciplined dealing desk operations, enforces policies, strengthens cross-functional alignment, and ensures a scalable trading environment.
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Keywords
- Head Of Dealing
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NEXT Ventures
NEXT Ventures is where ambition takes shape and movement becomes momentum. As a global platform revolutionising access to performance-based capital, we empower the world s most driven individuals to rise. Through our flagship brand, FundedNext, we empower dreamers to become doers, and potential to turn into performance. With 500+ driven minds across five countries, we power a global rhythm 220,000+ daily users from 170+ nations, each chasing greatness in their own way. Your Role in Our Mission
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