We take into account an individual’s qualifications, skillset and experience when determining salary. The salary range listed in the job posting reflects the new hire salary range across levels that would be applicable to the position and Los Angeles location. This role is eligible for health insurance, life insurance, 401k contribution, paid time off including vacation and sick leave and any other tax-reportable benefits. The final salary will be commensurate with the candidates final level and represents the base salary only.

• Health insurance coverage including medical, dental, and vision

• Competitive salary

• Stock options

• Company paid life insurance

• 20 paid vacation days a year, as well as paid holidays

• Flexible work schedule

• Matching 401k

• FSA/DCA accounts

• Generous family leave policies

• Annual bonuses

Lightspark is building open payments for the Internet—always-on payment solutions powered by Bitcoin, the only open, neutral network for moving value. With enterprise tools like Connect, UMA, and Spark, businesses can send and receive money instantly, securely, and at a fraction of the cost, anytime, anywhere. Lightspark is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, but serves the world.

Lightspark is seeking a Treasury & Regulatory Finance Manager to spearhead the build out and operation of Lightspark’s Treasury workstreams and regulated payments business. The Treasury & Regulatory Finance Manager will be at the center of the financial heartbeat of our regulated payments entity and Corporate treasury functions, managing a cutting-edge treasury function that blends the rigor of traditional finance with the innovation of Bitcoin and the UMA protocol. This role is critical in ensuring that Lightspark maintains financial compliance across its regulated entities while also managing liquidity, cash, and digital assets to support the growth of our business. 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:

Treasury Operations

• 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.

• Support capital allocation, working capital forecasting, and treasury strategy.

• Support new product launches with treasury operational design for both fiat and bitcoin flows.

• Leverage AI/ML and automation tools to streamline reconciliations, detect anomalies in cash/crypto flows, and enhance liquidity forecasting accuracy.

• Implement scalable processes and controls for reconciliations, settlements, and cash reporting.

• Analyze large data sets using BI and AI-driven tools to reduce complexity, surface insights, and make actionable recommendations for management.

Regulatory Finance & Reporting

• Ensure compliance with liquidity requirements across Lightspark’s regulated entities.

• Partner with Compliance, Accounting, and Operations teams to support license renewals, and ongoing reporting obligations for financial KPIs (e.g. permissible investments reporting).

• Maintain documentation and evidence for regulators, auditors, and banking/custody partners.

• Explore the use of AI-enabled reporting and monitoring tools to improve compliance efficiency and ensure timely, accurate filings across multiple jurisdictions.

Cross functional

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to align treasury infrastructure with payments and settlement flows.

• Provide treasury and regulatory insights for strategic planning and Senior Management reporting.

• Build scalable playbooks and automation for settlements, reconciliations, and reporting, including evaluating how AI agents and data pipelines can evolve these processes over time.

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

What we are looking for:

• 7+ years of experience in Finance, Treasury, or Regulatory Reporting in fintech, payments, or financial services.

• Experience in a regulated payments fintech or crypto company, work with international regulated payment entities is a plus.

• Experience with financial regulatory filings for licensed entities (e.g., state MTLs, FCA/EMI).

• Hands-on treasury experience (cash forecasting, liquidity management, reconciliations).

• Experience with both traditional payment rails (SWIFT, ACH, SEPA, SPEI, etc) and digital asset flows (bitcoin on-chain transactions, Lightning Network, crypto custody solutions).

• Advanced Excel/Google Sheets and financial modeling skills.

• Enthusiasm and energy to deeply understand our business model – pricing model, flow of funds, interactions across crypto + fiat rails, and implementing emerging technologies like AI to improve efficiency, scalability, and resilience

• Curiosity and comfort working with emerging AI/automation tools in finance and treasury contexts. Experience applying AI/ML in financial forecasting, anomaly detection, or compliance reporting is also a nice to have.

• Proficiency in BI tools such as Tableau, Power BI, BigQuery or Looker for financial data analysis and reporting

• Exposure to API-based banking and exchange integrations is nice to have.

• Ability, and enthusiasm, to see challenges as an opportunity to grow

• Experience communicating effectively across a broad range of communication mediums to a variety of different audiences, both internal and external

• Experience navigating a fast paced startup environment

• Ability to work onsite in our HQ in Los Angeles, California

Lightspark is on a mission to build an open payment protocol for the Internet at scale and therefore we’re committed to creating a more inclusive and diverse workplace to reflect the customers we serve. We welcome interest from individuals of all backgrounds and levels of experience who share our mission. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the State of California Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.

Compensation Range: $145K - $170K