Lightspark · 1 week ago
Finance Manager, Payments
Culver City, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$145K/yr - $170K/yr
7+ years expLightspark is building the open payment protocol for the Internet, and they are seeking a Finance Manager to spearhead key finance workstreams. This role involves optimizing financial systems, managing liquidity, and ensuring compliance while collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance financial reporting and operations.
CryptocurrencyMobile PaymentsPayments
Responsibilities
Own a range of crypto-asset and fiat finance, treasury, and accounting priorities including calculating and tracking various revenue models, wallet structures, and liquidity management
Collaborate with Product and Engineering to align financial and treasury infrastructure with payments and settlement flows
Optimize financial systems and reporting. You will collaborate with various cross-functional teams to implement system enhancements that improve the tracking, allocation, and reporting of crypto and fiat funds flows as well as manage, monitor, and account for various cloud and hosted service expenses
Automating processes and integrating cost management tools to increase efficiency and accuracy
Implement and maintain systems to ensure complete, accurate and detailed reporting on various balance sheet metrics related to crypto and fiat holdings
Analyze large amounts of information, including conducting analysis of crypto transactions, quickly and effectively to reduce complexity and make actionable recommendations for management
Prepare regular reporting related to customer and company metrics, including reconciliations related to the company’s various income streams and associated holdings to ensure regulatory compliance and support strategic initiatives
Understand and audit the expected or existing financial processes: daily flow of funds, partner and customer relationships, verification processes and identify operational headaches and inefficiencies and execute on necessary changes
Be the subject matter expert and partner with finance leadership, cross-functional stakeholders and vendors for various system and partner integrations, with a focus on those with a financial and/or compliance impact (e.g. banking integrations, ERP implementation, regulatory reporting, etc.)
Participate in the preparation of the annual budgeting and forecasting processes, offering insightful analysis and recommendations to senior management
Support management in completing special projects, ad-hoc questions and initiatives
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 new product launches 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
Partner with Compliance, Accounting, and Operations teams to support license renewals, and ongoing reporting obligations for financial KPIs (e.g. permissible investments reporting)
Explore the use of AI-enabled reporting and monitoring tools to improve compliance efficiency and ensure timely, accurate filings across multiple jurisdictions
Build scalable playbooks and automation for settlements, reconciliations, and reporting, including evaluating how AI agents and data pipelines can evolve these processes over time
Qualification
Required
7+ years of experience with broad experience in finance roles, including financial analysis, operations, treasury, systems and 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)
Familiarity with banking systems and cloud based financial systems
Experience with both traditional payment rails (SWIFT, ACH, SEPA, SPEI, etc) and digital asset flows (bitcoin on-chain transactions, Lightning Network, crypto custody solutions)
Proficiency in BI tools such as Tableau, Power BI, BigQuery or Looker for financial data analysis and reporting with advanced financial modeling skills
Familiarity with GAAP principles, specifically revenue recognition and fair value measurements (CPA not required)
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
Experience in leading strategic and financial improvement initiatives
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
Strong executive presence, including oral and written communication skills
Experience navigating a fast paced startup environment
Ability to work onsite in our HQ in Los Angeles, California
Preferred
Experience applying AI/ML in financial forecasting, anomaly detection, or compliance reporting is also a nice to have
Exposure to API-based banking and exchange integrations is nice to have
Company
Lightspark
Builds payments infrastructure for digital banks, wallets and exchanges, real-time global money movement for Bitcoin, fiat, and stablecoins.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
unknown2022-05-12Series A
Leadership Team
Christian Catalini
Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer
Christina Smedley
Co-Founder, Chief Marketing & Comms Officer
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