Treasury and Regulatory Finance Manager
Lightspark
full-time
Posted on:
Location: California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $145,000 - $170,000 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
Tech Stack
BigQueryRuby on RailsSparkSwiftTableau
About the role
- Monitor and manage fiat, bitcoin, and other digital asset liquidity across global entities, banks, and custodians for all Lightspark entities.
- Execute timely internal transfers, fiat wires, bitcoin transactions, and exchange conversions to meet obligations.
- Develop frameworks for safeguarding funds, intercompany settlements, and liquidity stress testing.
- Support capital allocation, working capital forecasting, and treasury strategy.
- Support new product launches with treasury operational design for both fiat and bitcoin flows.
- Leverage AI/ML and automation tools to streamline reconciliations, detect anomalies in cash/crypto flows, and enhance liquidity forecasting accuracy.
- Implement scalable processes and controls for reconciliations, settlements, and cash reporting.
- Analyze large data sets using BI and AI-driven tools to reduce complexity, surface insights, and make actionable recommendations for management.
- Ensure compliance with liquidity requirements across Lightspark’s regulated entities.
- Partner with Compliance, Accounting, and Operations teams to support license renewals, and ongoing reporting obligations for financial KPIs (e.g. permissible investments reporting).
- Maintain documentation and evidence for regulators, auditors, and banking/custody partners.
- Explore the use of AI-enabled reporting and monitoring tools to improve compliance efficiency and ensure timely, accurate filings across multiple jurisdictions.
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering to align treasury infrastructure with payments and settlement flows.
- Provide treasury and regulatory insights for strategic planning and Senior Management reporting.
- Build scalable playbooks and automation for settlements, reconciliations, and reporting, including evaluating how AI agents and data pipelines can evolve these processes over time.
- Support management in completing special projects, ad-hoc questions and initiatives.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in Finance, Treasury, or Regulatory Reporting in fintech, payments, or financial services.
- Experience in a regulated payments fintech or crypto company, work with international regulated payment entities is a plus.
- Experience with financial regulatory filings for licensed entities (e.g., state MTLs, FCA/EMI).
- Hands-on treasury experience (cash forecasting, liquidity management, reconciliations).
- Experience with both traditional payment rails (SWIFT, ACH, SEPA, SPEI, etc) and digital asset flows (bitcoin on-chain transactions, Lightning Network, crypto custody solutions).
- Advanced Excel/Google Sheets and financial modeling skills.
- Enthusiasm and energy to deeply understand our business model – pricing model, flow of funds, interactions across crypto + fiat rails, and implementing emerging technologies like AI to improve efficiency, scalability, and resilience
- Curiosity and comfort working with emerging AI/automation tools in finance and treasury contexts. Experience applying AI/ML in financial forecasting, anomaly detection, or compliance reporting is also a nice to have.
- Proficiency in BI tools such as Tableau, Power BI, BigQuery or Looker for financial data analysis and reporting
- Exposure to API-based banking and exchange integrations is nice to have.
- Ability, and enthusiasm, to see challenges as an opportunity to grow
- Experience communicating effectively across a broad range of communication mediums to a variety of different audiences, both internal and external
- Experience navigating a fast paced startup environment
- Ability to work onsite in our HQ in Los Angeles, California