COO, Project Arnaud
£100-130k
Creating the UK’s first neo-private bank
Posted today
Creating the UK’s first neo-private bank
1-20 employees
Posted today
£100-130k
1-20 employees
Company mission
To change the very fabric of financial services.
Role
Who you are
- This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who enjoys building in a fast-moving environment and wants broad ownership across operations, controls, and external relationships. It is well suited to an operator who wants to have real impact and grow with the business
- Experience running operations within an FCA-regulated FX/CFD brokerage or similarly regulated financial environment
- Working knowledge of CASS 6 and CASS 7, transaction reporting, and FX, CFD, and equity products
- Strong stakeholder management skills across board members, compliance, banks, execution venues, and vendors
- Ability to structure issues clearly with supporting analysis and documentation
- Comfort working hands-on in a small, fast-changing business
- Degree or equivalent qualification is desirable
- Understanding of regulatory responsibilities, controls, and operational risk in a financial services setting
What the job involves
- Kinsworth Investments is building a new kind of wealth management experience: premium, proactive, and digitally native. We are looking for an entrepreneurial Chief Operating Officer to help shape and run the custody and brokerage arm of the business, ensuring the operational foundation is robust, scalable, and aligned with a high standard of client service
- In this role, you will oversee day-to-day brokerage and investment operations across trading, client onboarding, client money and custody, regulatory reporting, and partner management. You will work closely with compliance, technical, product, and leadership teams to keep the firm operating smoothly while supporting the CEO, CFO, and SMF holders in meeting their regulatory responsibilities
- You will be joining a company that is rethinking how wealth management should feel for high-net-worth clients, with the chance to shape the operating model behind that ambition
- Oversee the trading platform and client account structures with liquidity partners
- Act as a Client Dealing certified person when required, handling client orders and trading queries
- Manage relationships with execution, liquidity, and custody partners, including due diligence on new partners
- Improve operational processes to make them more efficient, controlled, and scalable
- Own the client onboarding journey, including account opening forms, KYC and EDD documentation, and appropriateness assessments
- Apply client classification under COBS 3 in coordination with compliance review
- Support client money and custody operations, including reconciliations and acknowledgement letters
- Oversee regulatory reporting, business-change checks, governance documentation, and operational support for complaints and vendor due diligence
Application process
- Initial screening conversation
- Interview with the leadership team
- Final discussion focused on operational and regulatory fit
Salary benchmarks
Our take
With the vision to making the modern world’s most bespoke wealth services, Project Arnaud is building the UK’s first neo-private bank. Attached to 11FS Holdings, the project aims to address the lack of modern services for wealth customers, who so far remain underserved.
Project Arnaud is launching fully-funded, which enables its team to access the resources they will need to create and build their vision. The team itself consists of people who have founded or scaled the likes of Starling, Monzo, Nutmeg, Mettle, Mox, Bud, Fronted and Wealthify, which means the project is supported by a wealth of knowledge and experience.
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