Crypto Treasury Operations Specialist

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Responsibilities:

• Own the day-to-day management of both the cash and crypto asset components of the treasury, ensuring their security and liquidity;
• Implement and maintain the necessary operational processes and measures needed to ensure the security of crypto assets held in our treasury;
• Develop a risk management framework to identify, measure, and mitigate financial risks in the treasury, fostering a culture of risk awareness across the treasury and Finance team;
• Where appropriate, lead the selection and implementation of tools and systems required to strengthen the treasury management function of the organisation;
• Own the relationships with all banks, exchanges, market makers engaged by the organisation, maintain existing relationships (including managing information requests) and lead the efforts to onboard new providers;
• Work with the Finance team to forecast cash (and crypto) flows and maintain the liquidity necessary for timely payments and operations;
• Be hands-on with the execution of payment cycles, in both fiat and crypto, and working with the accounts payable function of Finance to make timely, accurate payments to suppliers. 

• Experience in, and a deep interest in, blockchain technology - mandatory for this role; 
• Demonstrable experience securely managing a crypto treasury, using multi-signature (rather than MPC) wallets and signing schemes, including evidence of how operational risks were identified and mitigated or hedged - mandatory requirement for this role; 
• Ability to design and implement treasury operations processes that are in line with industry best practices, including the management and execution of payment runs;
• Comfortable working remotely and asynchronously;
• Proactive, self-motivated, detail-oriented; able to work independently. 

• Experience managing and maintaining banking relationships in an industry considered “high risk” by the banking sector;
• Experience developing and maintaining cash flow, risk and other treasury models to support a complex, multi-entity operational model;
• Personal or professional experience interacting with DeFi;
• Bias towards automation and leveraging technology when designing and implementing processes.

1. Introduction call with the Talent team
2. Interview with Head of Finance
3. (optional) Paid project (2-3 hours of work)
4. Interview with Program Lead
5. Interview co-founder