Senior Product Treasury & Operations Manager
9 hours ago
Barcelona
Venga is a crypto platform for beginners who have not yet purchased their first bitcoin and are looking to take their first steps in blockchain/crypto. We are the first Catalan crypto app, and we are focused on building something that speaks to the local communities in Barcelona, Catalonia, and in the whole of Spain. We want to educate and empower people to effortlessly discover, and make their first investment in crypto. Venga has been approved by the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV) in Spain and holds the MiCA license to operate in Europe as a crypto asset service provider. We're looking for a Senior Product Treasury & Operations Manager who will take ownership of the operational liquidity and financial flows that power Venga's products. Working within the Product team and reporting to the Head of Product, you will ensure that Venga always maintains sufficient liquidity across its operational accounts and wallets. This is not an accounting or traditional corporate treasury position. You will be responsible for the day-to-day movement, allocation, and control of funds required for our products to operate effectively. You will also lead the automation and improvement of these processes, taking ownership of responsibilities currently managed by the Head of Product. The ideal candidate is a highly organized and analytical operator with experience in crypto, treasury operations, liquidity management, and settlements. You should be comfortable managing critical financial processes, working across multiple providers and collaborating with Product and Engineering to automate complex operational workflows. This role is ideal for an ambitious senior manager who wants to establish and grow a new function, with the opportunity to climb the career ladder within Venga. • Take full ownership of Venga's day-to-day product liquidity operations., • Ensure that sufficient fiat and crypto liquidity is available across all operational accounts, providers, and wallets., • Ensure that sufficient gas tokens and other operational crypto balances are maintained across all relevant blockchain wallets., • Monitor balances and execute and coordinate transfers between operational accounts to ensure customer deposits, withdrawals, purchases, sales, and swaps are processed without interruption., • Together with senior leadership, help establish minimum, target, and maximum liquidity thresholds for each operational account, currency, and crypto-asset., • Define the business requirements for automated liquidity management systems, dashboards, alerts, and transfer rules, and develop automatic rebalancing based on predefined liquidity thresholds., • Continuously identify manual processes that can be automated, simplified or eliminated., • Forecast short-term liquidity requirements based on customer activity, trading volumes, withdrawals, product launches, marketing campaigns, weekends and public holidays., • Plan liquidity requirements around banking cut-off times, provider settlement cycles and blockchain processing times., • Plan liquidity requirements and establish weekend, public holiday, and out-of-hours liquidity monitoring, handover, and escalation procedures., • Plan liquidity requirements and create contingency procedures for provider downtime, blocked accounts, banking delays, blockchain congestion, and automation failures., • Identify liquidity shortages, excess balances, and concentration risks, and elevate them to the Head of Product and other appropriate stakeholders., • Define and report product liquidity KPIs to the Head of Product, CFO, and CEO., • Develop and regularly test liquidity stress scenarios., • Perform first-line operational checks to confirm that customer fiat funds and crypto-assets are fully covered, correctly allocated and available across the relevant accounts and wallets., • Track transfers from initiation through to final settlement and investigate delayed, rejected, missing or duplicated transactions., • Maintain a complete and accurate overview of where operational funds are held and how they move throughout Venga's product infrastructure., • Work with Compliance, Finance and Security to ensure that all liquidity processes follow Venga's internal controls and regulatory requirements., • In case of incidents, Conduct post-incident reviews and ensure that corrective actions are implemented., • Manage the operational onboarding of new providers, bank accounts, fiat currencies, crypto-assets, and on-ramp and off-ramp rails., • Support the Head of Product in assessing the operational requirements of new products and features., • Ensure that liquidity, settlement, controls, monitoring and fallback procedures are in place before relevant products are launched., • Assess the operational impact of new fiat currencies, crypto-assets, networks, deposit methods, withdrawal methods and other services., • Map end-to-end product financial flows and identify unnecessary transfers, delays, risks and points of failure., • Work with Customer Support to investigate product issues caused by delayed transfers, failed settlements or provider problems., • Work with Finance to resolve operational differences between provider balances and Venga's internal records., • Provide clear and regular reporting to the Head of Product, CFO and CEO on liquidity positions, incidents, risks and automation progress., • Maintain strong relationships with operational contacts at Venga's external providers and manage escalations when issues arise., • You have at least 5 years of relevant experience in treasury operations, liquidity operations, payments, settlements, banking operations, crypto operations, wallet operations, or a related fintech role., • Native or Advanced level of English., • Core Knowledge:Deep understanding of blockchain and crypto., • Experience in a regulated fintech, payments, or crypto company is considered a strong advantage., • You have direct experience managing the movement and allocation of funds across multiple operational accounts or financial providers., • You understand that this is an operational treasury role rather than an accounting, bookkeeping or corporate finance position., • You are comfortable working with both crypto-assets and fiat currencies., • You are highly analytical and can use data to forecast liquidity requirements and identify operational risks., • You are process-driven and able to build reliable controls around critical financial operations., • You are technically minded and comfortable working with Product and Engineering teams on APIs, automation dashboards and internal tools., • You proactively identify problems and implement solutions rather than waiting for instructions., • You are comfortable taking ownership of a function that is still being established and creating structure where processes may currently be manual., • You are ambitious and interested in developing into a leadership role as Venga and the function continue to grow., • You are not afraid to get your hands dirty and are ready to take on multiple processes simultaneously., • You have exceptional attention to detail and understand the importance of accuracy when managing financial transfers., • You are exceptionally well organized and can stay calm when working to tight deadlines or resolving urgent operational or settlement incidents., • You can break complex problems into manageable, actionable chunks and solve each one accurately and effectively., • Full-time permanent employment contract., • "Venga, own-your-time!" company culture: manage your daily schedule around core hours., • Short Fridays with the end of work at 4 PM., • Hybrid work with mandatory office days: Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays., • Rainy Days Policy & Remote Travel Policy., • Health insurance from Sanitas., • A sunny office in Barcelona, less than 50 meters from the beach., • A new MacBook., • Exciting work in a dynamic, international, and hyper-growth regulated startup. #J-18808-Ljbffr