Finance Operations Lead

Summary

Join Bastion, a company enabling financial institutions and enterprises to issue regulated stablecoins, as their Finance Operations Lead. Build and scale the financial operations infrastructure from the ground up, leading daily operations across stablecoin minting/burning, fiat/crypto settlement, trading, and reconciliation. You will own key controls, audit readiness, and financial operations workflows, working closely with various teams and external partners. This high-agency role requires strong crypto/fiat payments experience and the ability to thrive in ambiguity. You will design scalable reconciliation processes, support the implementation of Bastion’s SOC1 control framework, and build stablecoin operational readiness. The role also involves monitoring bank and exchange partners, creating customer-facing and internal reporting, and serving as the point of contact for exception management.

Requirements

• 7-10+ years of experience in financial operations, treasury operations or crypto payment processing
• Strong understanding of fiat and crypto flow of funds: wire transfers, stablecoin mechanics, exchanges, and wallets
• Proven ability to design from first principles and scale systems with minimal existing infrastructure
• Experience with Banking and Exchange APIs, reconciliation tooling, and TMS, ERP or Ledger Systems
• Demonstrated ownership of SOC1 controls, internal audit readiness or other financial compliance frameworks
• Highly detail-oriented operationally rigorous and able to work independently in a lean environment
• Self-starter with strong communication skills with a bias for execution

Responsibilities

• Own and execute the end-to-end settlement lifecycle: ACH/wire processing, crypto swaps, reconciliation, exception handling, and transaction validation
• Design a scalable reconciliation processes across fiat/stablecoin flows - including daily cash, wallet movements, NAV calculations, and transaction monitoring
• Support the design and implementation of Bastion’s SOC1 control framework, including operational control mapping, documentation, and audit trail development
• Build stablecoin operational readiness across mint/redeem workflows, internal controls, fiat on/off ramp processes
• Monitor bank and exchange partners for daily operations: wire verifications, track FX conversions, and manage on and off-chain liquidity movements
• Create customer-facing reporting (i.e. daily transaction status, balances, confirmations) and internal dashboards (i.e. reconciliations KPIs, settlement SLAs, volume metrics)
• Serve as the point of contact for exception management across failed/ stuck payments, invalid memos or delayed settlements
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Compliance to integrate financial operation requirements into systems builds and user flows
• Support the implementation of a Treasury Management System (TMS)