Member of Specialist Staff (Head of Treasury) @ Zuba
Accounting & Finance
Posted on Aug 6, 2026
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Member of Specialist Staff (Head of Treasury) @ Zuba
🇬🇧 London + willingness to travel (100% in-person)
💰 Competitive (incl. equity)
About Zuba
About the role
We’re looking for a Head of Treasury to own the financial core of a cross-border payments business: liquidity across currencies and stablecoins, funding payout partners on time every time, and a tight grip on FX exposure that moves daily. You’ll own the treasury function end to end, build the team around it, and work directly with the founders.
This is not a back-office treasury role. We move real money across fiat and stablecoins in Africa, and we are expanding quickly into new markets. Treasury is the heartbeat of the company, not a support function. When float is tight and a corridor needs funding, treasury is what keeps payments clearing. Your decisions have immediate, visible consequences.
A few reasons why you might find this exciting:
Treasury that actually matters. In most companies treasury is reporting. Here it is the operating engine. Whether a payment clears today depends on decisions you made yesterday.
Crypto-native settlement. We use stablecoins as settlement rails. You’ll run live stablecoin liquidity, digital-asset custody, and the fiat-to-stablecoin conversions that make our corridors work.
Build and lead the function. You won’t just run the process, you’ll define it: the controls, the automation, the daily position the founders rely on, and the team that executes it, starting with a Treasury Analyst reporting to you.
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 treasury function outright: strategy, controls, execution, and the team behind it
Own the daily treasury position: cash and float across every bank account and stablecoin wallet, with a clear, modelled view of what is usable and what is committed
Set and run liquidity strategy 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 FX risk management: monitor exposure across corridors, set the hedging framework, and execute against it
Own the reconciliation discipline: matching what we sent, what partners received, and what reached recipients, and drive it from manual work to a reliable automated pipeline alongside engineering
Manage banking and payout-partner relationships from a treasury standpoint, including onboarding new rails and reducing single-point-of-failure concentration
Build and lead the treasury team, starting with the Treasury Analyst and scaling as volumes grow
Maintain the liquidity, working-capital, and runway models that feed the monthly finance pack, and support month-end and quarter-end close across multiple entities
Hold the line on treasury controls: clean separation between who executes and who reconciles, with no exceptions
Who you are
You’ve run treasury at a senior level: 5+ years across treasury, liquidity, or markets roles in payments, fintech, banking, or trading, including time owning a function or leading people. 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 and a builder: you’ll build the model, run the reconciliation, and chase the stuck payment yourself, and then design the system that means nobody has to do it manually again.
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/USDC settlement, on/off-ramps)
Experience building or leading a small treasury team
Multi-entity treasury across more than one jurisdiction
Some topics you'll think about
How do we fund a corridor whose payout demand can triple in a month, without tripling idle float?
Where does hedging genuinely reduce risk in volatile currency pairs, and where does it just cost money?
What does an automated daily treasury position look like that the founders can rely on without checking it?
How should treasury controls scale as the company triples in size, without slowing anything down?
What we offer
💸 Competitive salary + meaningful equity, and we’ll show you the maths
🚀 Real ownership: your work shows up in the company’s numbers within weeks
🧠 No layers: everyone works directly with the founders
🤖 The best AI tools money can buy, for everyone
🌍 Paid travel to the markets we serve
🍔 In past 8pm? Dinner and the ride home are on us
🍹 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.
Treasury deep dive (45 mins): walk us through how you've managed liquidity, run reconciliation, and handled FX exposure in a live operation, and how you would build the function here. We want specifics.
Work trial (2 days, paid): the best way to see if we're a good fit is to work together, and we pay for your time. You'll spend two days with us at our Central London office, working on real problems alongside the team.
Offer. If all goes well, we'll extend an offer and can't wait to welcome you aboard!