Treasury Operations Crypto Jobs in Chicago, IL (NOW HIRING)

Reporting to the Director of Finance and Accounting - Americas, the U.S. Treasurer leads the treasury function for Crypto.com's U.S. and Canadian derivatives and prediction-markets entities, including the Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) and Nadex. Leading a team of four, the Treasurer owns cash and liquidity management, payments and settlement, banking relationships, custody operations, and treasury controls across multiple legal entities. This is a hands-on leadership role with a clear mandate to modernize the function through process automation and artificial intelligence (AI), operating in a highly regulated, deadline-driven environment where the continuous protection of customer funds and the sufficiency of liquidity are paramount. As one of the fastest-growing businesses in the industry, this is a rare opportunity to build and scale the treasury operations behind a rapidly expanding prediction-markets franchise.

• Lead, develop, and retain a high-performing U.S. Treasury team of four - setting clear goals, coaching team members, and holding the team to high standards of accuracy and accountability.
• Set clear, measurable expectations and hold team members accountable through performance scorecards - an accountability standard this role both champions and is measured against.
• Drive team performance and build bench strength, ensuring robust backup coverage across all critical treasury functions.
• Serve as a strategic treasury partner to senior business, Product, Trading, and Technology leadership.
• Coordinate with global treasury counterparts on shared priorities, deadlines, and upcoming product launches.

• Own daily cash position monitoring across multiple legal entities, tracking balances, liquidity levels, capital requirements, and funding obligations.
• Direct daily treasury funding transfers, ensuring timely execution, confirmed settlement, accurate tracking, and prompt escalation of issues.
• Maintain sufficient liquidity to meet all customer and operational obligations at all times.
• Oversee daily reconciliations across trading systems and bank accounts, ensuring reconciling items, breaks, and exceptions are investigated and resolved promptly.
• Design and adjust flow-of-funds for new products, accounts, and banking arrangements, partnering closely with Product and Technology teams.

• Review and approve daily payments, wires, and vendor (accounts payable) disbursements across entities.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for banking partners, and manage bank account opening and closure for U.S. and Canadian entities.
• Administer banking and payment-portal access - entitlements, approval limits and authorities, multi-factor authentication (MFA), periodic access reviews, and segregation of duties.
• Oversee vault operations and custody settlement, including financial operations for trust and custody services (user administration, transaction policies, and token management) and review and approval of related invoices.
• Manage bank-partner due-diligence requests and cross-border foreign exchange (FX) settlement.
• Actively manage and drive down treasury-related costs - including bank account analysis fees - while optimizing interest income and earnings credit rate (ECR) across banking relationships.
• Respond to operational disruptions (e.g., exchange outages) that affect settlement, coordinating across Technology and third-party partners.

• Champion the use of process automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to modernize treasury operations and improve efficiency, accuracy, controls, and scalability.
• Maintain and expand existing automations, including end-of-day reconciliation and reporting send-outs, transaction review and approval tracking, and daily balance reporting by entity.
• Define and execute the treasury automation roadmap, prioritizing high-impact opportunities across cash, settlement, reconciliation, and reporting.

This is a deadline-driven function with strict, recurring timelines for regulatory reporting. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Ensure ongoing compliance with customer-funds protection requirements and applicable National Futures Association (NFA) and CFTC obligations, including customer segregated funds (CFTC 1.20, 30.7, 22.2) and residual interest.
• Support regulatory reporting, regulatory examinations, and internal and external audit requests across the FCM, Nadex, and related entities.
• Manage state unclaimed-property reporting and other statutory compliance obligations.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• 8+ years of progressive treasury, finance, or financial-operations experience, including at least 2-3 years leading and managing teams.
• Proven people-leadership skills, with a track record of building and driving high-performing teams.
• Experience holding team members accountable to performance scorecards or similar structured, metrics-based performance frameworks.
• Hands-on expertise applying process automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to finance or treasury workflows.
• Demonstrated experience driving down treasury-related costs, including reducing bank account analysis fees and improving interest income and earnings credit rate (ECR).
• Strong cash management, liquidity, and funding experience, ideally across multiple legal entities.
• Experience overseeing payments and settlement operations and reconciliation controls.
• Experience managing banking relationships and bank-account administration.
• Experience operating in a regulated financial services environment (e.g., exchange, broker, crypto entity, futures commission merchant, or bank).
• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy.
• Demonstrated strong communication skills, with the ability to partner across functions and with senior stakeholders.
• Comfortable working to strict, recurring deadlines, particularly for time-sensitive regulatory reporting.

• Direct experience at a Financial Institution, Futures Commission Merchant, Designated Contract Market, clearing house, or derivatives clearing organization.
• Working knowledge of customer segregation rules (CFTC 1.20, 30.7, 22.2) and residual interest requirements.
• Certified Treasury Professional (CTP), Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), or Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designation.
• Demonstrated success scaling automation and artificial intelligence (AI) within a finance or treasury function.
• Experience with multi-entity and cross-border (U.S. and Canada) treasury operations.
• Exposure to digital assets, custody operations, crypto markets, or prediction markets.
• Hands-on experience with a treasury management system (TMS), advanced Microsoft Excel, and business intelligence (BI) tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI).

This is a full-time, hybrid position based in Chicago, IL, with an expectation of regular in-office presence alongside remote work.