CFO - Chief Finance Officer

Key Responsibilities

Risk Policy & Monitoring

• Implement and review the company's risk management policy, including margin limits, maintenance margin thresholds and escalation rules, in line with SEBON and NEPSE regulations.
• Review daily risk reports covering client debits, margin positions, collateral value and debit ageing.
• Approve client risk grading and oversee valuation of pledged and unpledged collateral.
• Decide on margin calls, forced sell-downs and other risk actions for high-exposure accounts.

Recovery Management

• Set recovery targets for each officer and allocate client accounts across the recovery team.
• Approve account closures, payment commitment renegotiations and group recovery arrangements.
• Personally handle escalated high-value and sensitive client cases, including legal and cheque-dishonour matters.
• Reconcile recovery figures with the Finance department and ensure only verified receipts are reported as recovered.

Team Leadership

• Lead, train and supervise a team of Risk & Recovery Associates across normal and margin desks.
• Monitor team performance against KPIs, conduct regular reviews and support staff development.
• Enforce maker-checker controls so that no staff member approves their own actions.

Reporting & Compliance

• Prepare monthly MIS and risk reports for management and the Board, covering exposure, recovery, ageing and provisioning.
• Ensure compliance with SEBON directives, NEPSE rules and internal audit requirements for the recovery function.
• Coordinate with internal and external auditors and respond to regulatory queries.

• Recommend improvements to risk policies, recovery processes and the recovery management system.

• Semi-qualified Chartered Accountant (CAP-II / CA Intermediate passed) from ICAN or an equivalent body.
• Minimum [3–5] years of post-articleship experience in a stockbroker, BFI, audit firm or credit/risk function.
• Completed articleship; exposure to audit of brokers, banks or financial institutions preferred.

Skills & Competencies

• Sound understanding of NEPSE trading, T+2 settlement, margin lending and collateral/pledge mechanics.
• Strong knowledge of accounting, reconciliation and financial reporting.
• Working knowledge of SEBON regulations applicable to stockbrokers.
• Advanced MS Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, data analysis); familiarity with TMS and back-office systems.
• Leadership, negotiation and decision-making ability, including handling difficult client situations.
• High integrity, sound judgement and strong written and verbal communication in Nepali and English.

Preferred (Added Advantage)

• Prior experience in risk management, credit monitoring or recovery at a stockbroker or BFI.
• Experience supervising or training a team.
• NEPSE/SEBON-related training or certification.

What We Offer

• A leadership role with direct exposure to senior management and the Board.
• Opportunity to shape the risk and recovery function and its systems from the ground up.
• Clear career progression within the company's operations and risk management.
• Competitive salary and benefits as per company policy.