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Treasury Lead
Absolute Recruit · London
Job description
About the role
We are an early‑stage, high‑growth cross‑border payments business seeking a Treasury Lead to build and own our treasury capability as we expand internationally. You will work closely with the Head of Finance, founders and investors, shaping the function from the ground up and directly influencing liquidity, partner funding and customer payments.
Key responsibilities
- Own the daily treasury position across bank accounts, payment‑partner balances and digital‑asset wallets.
- Manage liquidity and prefunding across international payment corridors, balancing service levels with efficient cash use.
- Run daily reconciliation, improve accuracy, reliability and automation of treasury reporting.
- Maintain treasury relationships with banks and payout partners, onboard new rails and reduce concentration risk.
- Maintain liquidity, working‑capital and cash‑runway models for the monthly finance pack.
- Monitor and manage FX exposure, set hedging approach and execute treasury actions.
- Partner with engineering to automate treasury processes and build dependable data pipelines.
- Implement practical treasury controls, ensuring clear segregation between execution and reconciliation.
- Support month‑end and quarter‑end close across multiple entities.
Required profile
- 5‑8 years of treasury and liquidity‑management experience, ideally within payments, fintech or financial services.
- Strong understanding of settlement timing, prefunding, payment rails, working capital and FX risk in a cross‑border environment.
- Hands‑on approach with confidence to build models, complete reconciliations and resolve operational issues directly.
- Commercial and controls‑focused mindset, able to create robust processes without unnecessary bureaucracy.
- Comfort working with emerging‑market currencies and ability to learn stablecoin settlement quickly.
Required skills
- Advanced Excel for modelling and reporting.
What we offer
- Meaningful equity participation.
- High‑impact role in a small, ambitious team with visible commercial impact.
- Opportunity to shape treasury function from the ground up.
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Absolute Recruit
London