Finance Manager, Payments

Lightspark is creating the Money Grid, modern, open financial infrastructure that makes payments accessible, affordable, and instant for businesses and users worldwide. We're challenging the status quo, updating the current system, and empowering our partners to build better solutions. Together, we're building the most advanced financial infrastructure, open, instant, and global, inspiring a future where anyone, anywhere can access the full potential of digital money. Lightspark is seeking a Finance Manager to spearhead the build out and operation of some of Lightspark’s key finance workstreams. The Finance Manager will. Your work will directly impact our operational resilience, customer trust, and ability to scale. You will also drive critical internal and external financial system integrations, including identifying the requirements and driving efficiencies for our bitcoin and fiat operations. Your ability to intricately connect finance requirements to our product solutions will be integral to our success. This role is custom-made for someone with boundless optimism for the future and an insatiable appetite for learning. We value adaptability, and you will have a “can-do” attitude,and have a strong sense of ownership. You will need to be self-sufficient to deliver results. What you'll be doing: - 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. - Partner with business, product, and go-to-market teams to evaluate pricing strategies, commercial terms, and margin optimization opportunities. - Build financial models to support pricing decisions, product launches, and strategic initiatives, including scenario analysis and sensitivity testing. - 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. - 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.). - Own 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. - Leverage AI/ML and automation tools to streamline reconciliations, detect anomalies in cash/crypto flows, and en