Lightspark

Lightspark

Finance Manager, Payments

Los Angeles HQ · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 173 days ago
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About the role

  • Lightspark is creating the Money Grid, modern, open financial infrastructure that makes payments accessible, affordable, and instant for businesses and users worldwide.
  • This role is custom-made for someone with boundless optimism for the future and an insatiable appetite for learning.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.).
  • Support management in completing special projects, ad-hoc questions and initiatives.

Requirements

  • Your work will directly impact our operational resilience, customer trust, and ability to scale.
  • Your ability to intricately connect finance requirements to our product solutions will be integral to our success.
  • 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 with financial regulatory filings for licensed entities (e.g., state MTLs, FCA/EMI).
  • 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)

Nice to have

  • Experience in a regulated payments fintech or crypto company, work with international regulated payment entities is a plus.
  • Curiosity and comfort working with emerging AI/automation tools in finance.
  • Experience applying AI/ML in financial forecasting, anomaly detection, or compliance reporting is also a nice to have.

Skills

  • Execute timely internal transfers, fiat wires, bitcoin transactions, and exchange conversions to meet obligations.

Compensation

  • Own the preparation of the annual budgeting and forecasting processes, offering insightful analysis and recommendations to senior management.

Company info

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