Required Qualifications (Must-Have)
- 5+ years in finance ops, payments operations, or treasury role in gambling, fintech, payments, or crypto.
- Proven experience and strong knowledge of the gambling industry’s financial operations are a strong must.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or equivalent. A professional qualification (CPA/CIMA/ACA) is a plus.
- Deep practical experience with payment processors, merchant acquiring, payouts, chargebacks, and PSP integrations.
- Hands-on experience with crypto custody, on-chain monitoring, exchanges, and converting crypto <> fiat. Familiar with multisig, custodial vendors, and hot/cold wallet best practices.
- Proven experience opening bank accounts, managing fiat payment systems (credit cards, e-wallets, bank transfers), and navigating associated banking challenges.
- Solid experience with cash flow forecasting and financial analysis.
- Strong accounting and reconciliation experience; comfortable with GL mappings and monthly operational close.
- Experience designing and documenting policies, controls, and audit support materials.
- Familiarity with KYC/AML compliance frameworks specific to digital assets and gaming.
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements, compliance, IFRS, and accounting principles.
- Strong stakeholder management – can work across product, engineering, compliance, and external partners.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills with advanced proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets and payment systems.
- Structural thinking combined with a strong sense of ownership and a results-oriented mindset.
- Comfortable in an ambiguous, high-change startup environment. High attention to detail and process-oriented.
- Fluency in Ukrainian or Russian and proficiency in English for collaboration in a remote/global team setting.
- Ability to work within the CET/EET time zone.
Your Advantage (Nice-to-Have)
- Previous work experience in skin gambling/trading (e.g., knowledge of platforms like Steam, skin marketplaces, and valuation methods).
- Excellent technical aptitude: SQL and spreadsheet modelling (advanced Excel), experience writing automation scripts or working with APIs. Python or similar is a plus.
- Direct experience building payment rails for cross-border flows.
- Experience with treasury management systems (e.g., QuickBooks, NetSuite, etc.) and modern fintech stacks.
- Familiarity with AML transaction monitoring systems and sanctions screening.
- Familiarity with token standards, NFTs, and smart contract basics.
Key Responsibilities
What You’ll Own (High-Level):
- End-to-end treasury for fiat, crypto, and skins: liquidity, settlement, custody, and conversion flows.
- Payments operations: onboarding/payment processor integrations, payouts, disputes, and chargebacks.
- Reconciliation and operational close: automated matching across wallets, exchanges, PSPs, and game inventory.
- Risk and compliance alignment: KYC/AML liaison, suspicious activity monitoring for payments & on-chain flows.
- Month-end closing processes and payroll activities.
- Cash forecasting, working capital, and FX/crypto exposure management.
- Policies, controls, and documentation for auditors and regulators.
- Vendor selection, onboarding, and relationships: PSPs, custodians, exchanges, banks, KYC/AML providers.
- Build and improve automated tooling and reporting (APIs, SQL, dashboards).
Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
- Oversee all treasury operations, including the execution of payment processing and wire transfers.
- Ensure accurate preparation of supporting documentation for payments and management of bank cards.
- Prepare and analyze daily and monthly reports on turnover and balances to provide insights into financial performance.
- Maintain daily liquidity across fiat bank accounts, PSPs, custodial wallets, and skin inventory to meet settlement and payout needs.
- Execute and optimize crypto <> fiat conversion flows (on-ramps/off-ramps), minimize fees and slippage, and manage settlement timing.
- Implement and own reconciliation processes: automatically match deposits/withdrawals to user accounts, detect exceptions, and reconcile to the general ledger.
- Manage payout flows and fraud/dispute resolution processes, including chargebacks and PSP disputes.
- Design and enforce treasury policies: account signatories, multisig rules, cold/hot wallet segregation, transaction limits, and incident response.
- Maintain accurate valuations and accounting treatment for skins (inventory/user balances) in collaboration with finance and product teams.
- Monitor on-chain transactions, maintain explorer/monitoring tools, and produce activity reports for compliance.
- Lead relationships and SLAs with banks, PSPs, custodians, exchanges, and AML/KYC tooling vendors.
- Support monthly/quarterly close for payments-ledgers and produce treasury reporting: cash position, FX/crypto P&L, liquidity runway.
- Drive automation (scripts, API workflow, or ETL) by collaborating with the engineering and product teams to eliminate manual reconciliation and reduce settlement time.
- Support audits, regulatory requests, and prepare materials for due diligence.
- Participate in ongoing and special projects or initiatives, prepare ad hoc reports, and perform other duties as assigned by upper management.