Member of Specialist Staff (Treasury Lead) @ Zuba
Accounting & Finance
Posted on Jun 18, 2026
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Member of Specialist Staff (Treasury Lead) @ Zuba
🇬🇧 London + willingness to travel (100% in-person)
💰 Competitive (incl. equity)
About Zuba
About the role
We're looking for a Treasury Lead to run the operational core of a cross-border payments business — liquidity across currencies and stablecoins, funding payout partners on time every time, and keeping a tight grip on FX exposure that moves daily. You'll work alongside the Head of Finance and own the treasury function day to day as we go single-threaded on scaling our payment network. This isn't a back-office treasury role. We move real money across fiat and stablecoins in Africa, and we're expanding quickly into South Asia. Treasury is the heartbeat of the company, not a support function — and you'll own it.
A few reasons why you might find this exciting:
Treasury that actually matters — when float is tight and a corridor needs funding, treasury is what keeps the company moving. Your decisions have immediate, visible consequences for whether payments clear.
Crypto-native settlement — we use stablecoins as settlement rails. You'll run live stablecoin liquidity, digital-asset custody, and the fiat↔stablecoin conversions that make our corridors work.
Build the function properly — controls are still being put in place. You'll own the reconciliation discipline, the daily treasury position, and the operating procedure that the rest of the team relies on.
Founder-level exposure — you'll work directly with the CEO, CTO, and Head of Finance. In a small team, your work is the company's financial nervous system.
What you'll do
Own the daily treasury position — cash and float across every bank account and stablecoin wallet, with a clear, modelled view of what's usable and what's committed
Manage liquidity end to end: prefund payout partners across African currencies, size positions against payout demand, and minimise idle cash without ever leaving a corridor short
Own the reconciliation cadence — matching what we sent, what partners received, and what reached recipients — and bring the daily automated position to the point where the founders can rely on it
Manage banking and payout-partner relationships from a treasury standpoint, including onboarding new rails and reducing single-point-of-failure concentration
Maintain the liquidity, working-capital, and runway models that feed the monthly finance pack
Own FX risk management end to end — monitor exposure across corridors, set the hedging approach, and execute the actions yourself
Drive automation of the treasury process alongside engineering — moving the daily reconciliation and position from manual work to a reliable automated pipeline
Hold the line on treasury controls — clean separation between who executes and who reconciles, with no exceptions
Support month-end and quarter-end close across multiple entities
Who you are
You've run treasury before — 5–8 years across treasury and liquidity management, ideally in payments, fintech, or financial services. Enough to have seen things go wrong and known what to do about it.
You understand how money actually moves — you can explain settlement timing, prefunding, payment rails, and FX exposure in a cross-border business without reaching for a textbook.
You're hands-on — you'll build the model, run the reconciliation, and chase the stuck payment yourself. There's no large team to delegate to.
You're controls-minded without being bureaucratic — you know why segregation of duties exists and you build controls that hold, but you don't slow the business down with ceremony.
You're comfortable with emerging markets and stablecoins — you've worked across volatile currencies and used stablecoins as a settlement rail, or you'll get there fast. You understand custody and on/off-ramp risk.
You produce clean, trustworthy numbers — every figure has a model behind it. You'd rather give a smaller true number than a bigger soft one.
You're reliable under time pressure — treasury is unforgiving on timing. Partners need funding when they need it. You show up and follow through.
Bonus points for:
Direct experience funding emerging-market payout corridors (NGN especially)
Hands-on stablecoin or crypto-treasury operations (custody, USDT settlement, on/off-ramps)
A quantitative degree (finance, economics, maths, engineering, sciences)
Multi-entity treasury across more than one jurisdiction
Experience with accounting software (Xero, QuickBooks, NetSuite) and strong Excel
What we offer
💸 Competitive salary + meaningful equity
🏢 Central London office (potential NY relocation)
🌐 Global exposure & impact
🍹 Team off-sites & regular socials
Our hiring process
We keep it fast and transparent.
Intro chat (30 mins) with Josiah (CEO & Co-Founder) and Ali (Head of Finance) — informal discussion about your background, what interests you about treasury and payments, and what you're looking for. An opportunity to get a sense of the role, the team, and how we work.
Treasury deep dive (45 mins) — walk us through how you've managed liquidity, run reconciliation, and handled FX exposure in a live operation. We'll dig into how you'd run our treasury, and you can ask about our financial architecture and priorities.
Work trial (2 days) — the best way to see if we're a good fit is to work together. You'll spend two days with us at our Central London office, working on real problems alongside the team. Feel free to ask questions — you'll be part of the team for the trial.
Offer. If all goes well, we'll extend an offer and can't wait to welcome you aboard!