# Treasury Lead

**Company:** [Lightning AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/lightning-ai)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** NetSuite, Treasury Management System, Tms, Cash Forecasting, Liquidity Management, Debt Facilities, Vendor Financing, Covenant Compliance, Fx Hedging, Banking Operations, Payment Operations
**Posted:** 2026-04-29

> Leads treasury operations including building policies, cash management, liquidity forecasting, debt facilities, vendor financing, and risk management for a multi-entity AI company. Requires 8+ years treasury experience, Bachelor's in Finance/Accounting, and expertise in capex-heavy environments.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

**Build and own the treasury function**
- Stand up Lightning AI's treasury operating model across the multi-entity group
- Establish treasury policies, controls, signature authorities, and procedures from the ground up
- Select and implement the treasury management system (TMS) and integrate it with NetSuite and the company's banking infrastructure
- Develop the multi-year treasury roadmap, including process design, automation priorities, and FTE buildout

**Cash management and banking**
- Own daily cash positioning, short-term liquidity forecasting, and intercompany cash movement across the entities
- Own the 13-week operational cash forecast on a weekly cadence, and partner with FP&A on the 12-month and long-range cash forecast
- Manage banking relationships, account structure, and bank fee analysis; rationalize the post-merger banking footprint
- Oversee the payment operations partnership with Accounts Payable, including wire and ACH controls and fraud prevention

**Debt, vendor financing, and covenant compliance**
- Manage existing debt facilities, vendor financing, and equipment financing across the group, including draw and repayment schedules, interest, and fees
- Lead negotiation and execution of new vendor financing arrangements with hardware OEMs in support of GPU and data center capex
- Build and operate the covenant compliance reporting cadence, including financial covenants, reporting covenants, and lender notification requirements
- Partner with Strategic Finance on debt structuring, refinancing, and new capital raises

**Risk management**
- Establish counterparty risk monitoring across banks, vendors, and lenders
- Assess and execute FX hedging where exposures arise
- Coordinate the insurance program with Legal and Operations

**Investment and capital structure**
- Manage corporate cash investment policy and execution within board-approved guidelines
- Support capital structure analysis and optimization in partnership with Strategic Finance
- Provide treasury input on operating model design and entity structure decisions

**Audit and cross-functional partnership**
- Partner with the Technical Accounting team on the accounting treatment of treasury transactions
- Support the first-year audit on treasury-related areas, including cash confirmations, debt and financing schedules, covenant compliance documentation, and counterparty letters
- Communicate treasury matters clearly to non-treasury stakeholders across Finance, Accounting, FP&A, Legal, Tax, Infrastructure Operations, and the executive team

## Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field; CTP, CFA, or MBA strongly preferred
- 8+ years of progressive treasury experience, with a mix of corporate treasury and ideally banking or capital markets exposure
- Strong command of corporate cash management, banking operations, and short-term liquidity forecasting
- Hands-on experience managing debt facilities and vendor or equipment financing arrangements, including covenant compliance
- Experience selecting, implementing, or substantially upgrading a treasury management system
- Track record of building treasury infrastructure — policies, controls, banking architecture, and reporting cadences — in a high-growth or post-merger environment
- Comfort with capex-heavy, capital-intensive business models, and a working understanding of how vendor financing, equipment financing, and asset-backed structures operate in practice
- Strong analytical skills with exceptional attention to detail, accuracy, and documentation quality
- Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to brief executives and translate treasury for non-treasury audiences
- Track record of cross-functional partnership with Accounting, FP&A, Legal, Tax, banks, lenders, and external advisors
- Bias toward building rather than maintaining; comfort operating in a fast-paced, foundation-building environment

## Nice-to-haves

- Prior treasury experience at a high-growth AI, cloud, infrastructure, or other capex-intensive technology company
- Direct experience negotiating vendor financing with hardware OEMs
- Experience supporting a first-year audit or significant treasury remediation
- Multi-entity treasury experience, including post-merger cash and banking integration
- Working knowledge of derivatives and hedge accounting concepts at an operational level

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