This is a candidate dataset for the ICP from report #5 — the third of six hard-to-fill roles. Brighty is building a licensed EMI and has re-posted its chief accountant role ×3 alongside MLRO and CISO: the finance function owns IFRS consolidation, audit-readiness, and capital reporting to the regulator. For this role we assembled a live, verified, contactable pool of finance leaders from the same fintech and crypto donor companies that already feed Brighty its people. Not a raw list scraped from open search — data engineering built around one specific hiring problem: who, why now, and exactly how we found them.
prepared 2026-06-28 · MEASURED · Outricher data
Report #5 makes it clear: Brighty's hardest roles are its regulatory core. The chief accountant role was re-posted ×3, MLRO ×4–6, CISO ×4. Re-posting the same vacancy is a "we can't find them" signal. For a licensed EMI the finance function isn't "expense tracking" — it's regulatory capital reporting, group IFRS consolidation, and audit-readiness: without it the regulator won't renew the license. This isn't "one more hire," it's a structural risk.
The standard way to close a role like this — posting a vacancy or external recruiting — runs into a thin market of licensable finance specialists. Below are 249 finance leaders already working at Brighty's donor companies, named individually and verified against the data.
Current CFOs / Finance Directors / Heads of Finance / Chief Accountants / Financial Controllers at Brighty's donor companies (the ones the team has already come from), in the geographies where Brighty actually hires (EU/EEA + Switzerland + UK + UAE). This is an honest "floor" across the named set of companies — the full graph is larger.
| Donor company | Finance leaders (current, in hiring reach) |
|---|---|
| Revolut | 119 |
| N26 | 21 |
| Coinbase | 17 |
| Binance | 16 |
| Bitpanda | 15 |
| Blockchain.com | 13 |
| Monzo | 12 |
| TransferGo | 12 |
| Nexo | 7 |
| Crypto.com | 6 |
| Gemini | 6 |
| kevin. | 5 |
| Total (before dedup) | 249 |
A note on honesty: two donors (a large payments service and a Baltic EMI) returned no finance rows in our dataset — that's an honest gap, we won't hide it. Offshore financial centres in South Asia are excluded geographically (Brighty's hubs are Vilnius and Dubai).
Exactly what was asked for: the best, but not necessarily the most expensive. We split the pool into two tiers — each with its own hiring economics.
Already hold a CFO / Finance Director / Head of Finance / Financial Controller role at a licensed fintech. They can lead Brighty's finance function from day one — closing IFRS consolidation and audit-readiness with no ramp-up. Of these, 66 are at CFO / Finance Director / Head of Finance level right now, and another 64 are Chief Accountant / Financial Controller (the owner of statutory reporting). More expensive, but you're buying readiness, not potential.
| Candidate | Current role | Donor | Geo | Tenure in role | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dalia Garbuziene | Head Of Finance, Deputy CFO (EEA) | Revolut | Lithuania | 4.7 yr | A+ 15 |
| Ashwin Kumar N C | Head of Finance Big4/IFRS | Revolut | UAE | 1.6 yr | A+ 15 |
| Brian Gahan | Country Manager and Head of Finance (Ireland) Big4/IFRS | Coinbase | Ireland | 5.9 yr | A+ 14.5 |
| Max Gregson | VP of Finance / Global Head of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Big4/IFRS | Blockchain.com | Spain | 4.3 yr | A+ 14.5 |
| Jaroslaw Klosowski CA | Group Financial Controller Big4/IFRS | Revolut | Spain | 3.7 yr | A+ 14.5 |
| Norayr Mkhitaryan | Senior Group Financial Controller Big4/IFRS | Revolut | United Kingdom | 3.7 yr | A+ 14.5 |
| Dan Stephens | Lead Financial Controller | Treasury, Equity and Investments Big4/IFRS | Revolut | United Kingdom | 1 yr | A+ 14.5 |
| Andreas Kyriakou | Head of Finance Big4/IFRS | Revolut | Cyprus | 0.9 yr | A+ 14.5 |
| David Smith | Head of Finance | Executive Director Big4/IFRS | Gemini | Ireland | 5.4 yr | A+ 14.5 |
| Matthew Ward | Head of Finance - UK & UAE Big4/IFRS | Crypto.com | United Kingdom | 4.4 yr | A+ 14.5 |
The top of the funnel — real people from the dataset. #1 is a Head of Finance / Deputy CFO from Revolut, in Lithuania (Brighty's regulatory home, zero relocation). Not a hypothesis — a row in the file.
Finance Managers, Group Accountants, and Senior Finance Managers trained at tier-1 fintechs, but "one rung below CFO". The career ladder Accountant → Finance Manager → Financial Controller → Head of Finance / CFO is standard; a strong Finance Manager with 3–5 years is a Financial Controller candidate with room to grow into more. A fraction of the cost of a senior hire, trained to world-class standards. The readiness-to-move signal ("stuck ≥3 years in role") is computed across the whole pool — see section #04 below.
| Candidate | Current role | Donor | Geo | Tenure in role | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexey Vshivkov | Senior Finance Manager Big4/IFRS | Revolut | United Kingdom | 1.3 yr | A 12.5 |
| Ogonna E. | Senior Finance Manager Big4/IFRS | Revolut | United Kingdom | 0.8 yr | A 12.5 |
| John Kavanagh | Finance Manager Big4/IFRS | Gemini | Ireland | 1.7 yr | A 11.5 |
| Francesco Miccoli | Senior Trade Finance Manager | Revolut | United Kingdom | 1.4 yr | A 10.5 |
| Pedro Tomás Caetano | Senior Finance Manager | Revolut | Portugal | 1.1 yr | A 10.5 |
| Whelan Cheung | Assistant Finance Manager | Crypto.com | United Kingdom | 5.2 yr | A 10.5 |
| Carlo Alberto Verona | Senior Finance Manager, Team Lead – Accounting Platform Solution | N26 | Germany | 3.5 yr | B 9.5 |
| Foster Glenn | Sustainable Finance Manager | N26 | Italy | 4 yr | B 9.5 |
CAVEAT: the middle tier covers Finance Manager / Financial Controller, but for the very top of the function — the group CFO of the license — draw from Tier A. Don't conflate the two roles in a single funnel.
Readiness to move isn't a guess — it's detected structurally from the career data.
82 of 170 have been in their current role ≥3 years without a title change. At a large fintech the finance team is dozens of people; promotion is slow and you're "one controller among many." At Brighty the same person is the owner of the entire finance function with a direct path to CFO. It's the strongest pull trigger.
82 candidates come from Revolut, where the Brighty team has already come from (9 people on the team). Outreach carrying the reference "your former colleague is already here and happy" removes the biggest barrier to moving — trust in a young company.
52 already work in crypto-fintech (their donor is a crypto company): they understand crypto-asset accounting, token treasury, and the specifics of auditing a crypto balance sheet. For a crypto-fiat neobank that's a rare, precise fit — not generic bookkeeping.
42 carry a Big4 / ACCA / CPA / IFRS trace in their profile — exactly the audit background that EMI license reporting requires. This isn't "good at Excel," it's a proven standard of consolidation and audit-readiness.
By function within the pool — this makes it clear it isn't "everyone tagged finance," but a structured funnel of finance leadership.
| Function | People | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Financial / Group Controller | 60 | 35% |
| Finance Manager / Group Accountant | 40 | 24% |
| Finance Director / Head of Finance | 39 | 23% |
| CFO / Chief Financial Officer | 27 | 16% |
| Chief Accountant / Head of Accounting | 4 | 2% |
An honest finding: the title "Chief Accountant" is rare at Western fintechs (just 4 in the pool) — the same function is called Financial Controller here (60 people). If you're specifically looking for a "chief accountant," look at the controllers: it's the same owner-of-statutory-reporting role, just under an international name.
The full dataset: JSONL / CSV / Excel + ready-made segments. Every profile carries career depth, education, skills, location, contacts (where available), a score, and a tier. Quality is measured, not claimed.
| Quality metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Profiles in the dataset | 170 |
| Fields per profile (min · avg · max · union) | 92 · 134 · 148 · 148 |
| Outreach-ready (email / phone / profile) | 100% |
| Email (combined) | 52.9% (90) |
| Hot A+/A | 82 |
We only ship email and phone from verified sources — where there is none, it's NULL; we never fabricate contacts. Depth can be raised with targeted contact re-enrichment for the tier you choose.
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