# Finance Manager, Payments

**Company:** [Lightspark](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/lightspark)
**Location:** Culver City, CA, Los Angeles, CA
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Salary:** $145k – $170k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Tableau, Power BI, BigQuery, Looker, SQL, Financial Modeling, US GAAP, Lightning Network, Bitcoin, Crypto Custody, Swift, Ach, Sepa, ERP, AI/ML
**Posted:** 2026-01-29

> Finance Manager leads crypto/fiat treasury, accounting, liquidity management, and financial modeling in fintech payments startup. Collaborates cross-functionally on systems, pricing, compliance, and AI automation; requires 7+ years fintech experience and BI proficiency.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Own crypto-asset and fiat finance, treasury, and accounting priorities including 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.
- Build financial models for pricing decisions, product launches, and strategic initiatives with scenario analysis.
- Optimize financial systems and reporting, implement enhancements for tracking crypto/fiat funds and cloud expenses.
- Automate processes and integrate cost management tools.
- Analyze crypto transactions and make actionable recommendations.
- Prepare reporting on customer/company metrics and reconciliations for compliance.
- Audit financial processes, identify inefficiencies, and execute changes.
- Serve as SME for system/partner integrations with financial/compliance impact (e.g., banking, ERP).
- Own annual budgeting and forecasting with analysis for senior management.
- Support special projects and ad-hoc initiatives.
- Monitor/manage fiat, bitcoin, and digital asset liquidity across entities.
- Execute transfers, wires, bitcoin transactions, and conversions.
- Develop frameworks for funds safeguarding, settlements, and liquidity stress testing.
- Leverage AI/ML for reconciliations, anomaly detection, and forecasting.
- Implement scalable processes/controls for reconciliations and reporting.
- Partner with Compliance, Accounting, Operations for license renewals and KPI reporting.
- Explore AI-enabled tools for compliance efficiency.
- Build playbooks and automation for settlements using AI agents and data pipelines.

## Requirements

- 7+ years in finance roles including analysis, operations, treasury, systems, reporting in fintech/payments/financial services.
- Experience in regulated payments fintech or crypto company (international a plus).
- Experience with financial regulatory filings (e.g., state MTLs, FCA/EMI).
- Familiarity with banking systems and cloud-based financial systems.
- Experience with traditional payment rails (SWIFT, ACH, SEPA, SPEI) and digital asset flows (bitcoin on-chain, Lightning Network, crypto custody).
- Proficiency in BI tools: **Tableau**, **Power BI**, **BigQuery**, **Looker**; advanced financial modeling.
- Familiarity with **GAAP** (revenue recognition, fair value).
- Enthusiasm for business model, crypto/fiat rails, AI technologies.
- Curiosity with AI/automation tools in finance (AI/ML in forecasting/anomaly detection nice-to-have).
- Experience leading strategic/financial initiatives.
- Exposure to API-based banking/exchange integrations (nice-to-have).
- Strong communication skills, executive presence.
- Experience in fast-paced startup.
- Ability to work onsite in Los Angeles, CA.

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