brale - Head of Finance

• 8+ years of progressive finance experience, including direct, hands-on ownership of FP&A and accounting (with or without a separate controller), not just directing others through it. • Comfort owning treasury or cash/liquidity management across multiple banking relationships and trading systems/portals; exposure to on-chain or custodial rails (wallets, exchanges, custodians, USDC/USDT/etc) is a strong plus. • Comfort owning accounting controls and the close process yourself, even without a CPA. • Genuine depth in forecasting, budgeting, and translating numbers into a story executives and boards act on. • Proven experience building and developing high-performing finance teams, including setting clear accountability, coaching direct reports, and creating scalable operating rhythms. • Experience presenting directly to executives, boards, and investors. • Bonus: Hands-on experience managing complex payment flows across corporate and customer funds, including timing, sequencing, settlement, and multiple payment rails, while meeting liquidity and control requirements. • Bonus: familiarity with digital asset or stablecoin accounting (reserve reconciliation, fair-value treatment). Direct experience is a plus, strong interest and aptitude to learn is the baseline. • Bonus: CPA or MBA. • WAYS OF WORKING • Collaboration: Partners directly with the CEO and COO, works closely with Compliance on regulatory reporting, Risk on risk management and with Product & Engineering on automation. • Communication: We're an anti-deck culture. Updates happen in Notion, not slide decks. In-person offsites, frequent async check-ins, direct access to leadership. • Tools: DriveTrain and Dual Entry (in active rollout), AI tools (we're AI-forward and expect our finance leader to be too), Notion.