Financial Operations Lead

Financial Operations Lead — Prediction Markets Prime Brokerage San Francisco Bay Area (on-site) · USD 140,000–250,000 + 0.2%–0.5% equity About the client A well funded, early-stage (YC-backed) firm building the prime brokerage and execution layer for prediction markets — the infrastructure professional and institutional traders need to access, trade, and manage risk across major venues at scale. Founded by two quants out of HFT and hedge funds who traded prediction markets on the side, saw that institutional traders lacked a proper execution and financing layer, and built it. Today the firm is connected to three exchanges, runs six proprietary execution algorithms, and serves paying trading firms. Values: ownership, speed, precision, a high technical bar. Building a highly automated FCM with a small team. How they work: AI-native, control first AI and automation are used across the company. For this role, automation must make the control environment stronger, not more opaque. They want someone who asks what can stop being done by hand, then designs the checks, documentation, and human review needed to trust the result. The role Founding financial operations leader. Build and own the finance function for the FCM, serve as an NFA-listed principal (subject to approval), and work directly with founders, engineers, counsel, auditors, and advisers. Own daily customer-funds segregation and secured-amount calculations, residual-interest monitoring, and capital, liquidity, customer-balance, and bank-balance controls Prepare and oversee NFA and CFTC filings, including daily segregation reports, Form 1-FR-FCM, bi-monthly SIDR and recurring financial submissions Build an audit-ready control environment with reconciliations, approvals, exception management, evidence retention, and clear operating procedures Own the general ledger, month-end close, treasury, and banking operations, working with external accountants, auditors, and depositories Translate finance and regulatory requirements into systems; automate reconciliations, reporting, controls, and data pipelines with engineering Milestones Month 1 Map every finance and regulatory workflow, define owners and controls, identify system gaps Month 3 Own the operating calendar for segregation, capital, treasury, close, and reporting Month 6 Run an accurate, audit-ready finance function that recovers cleanly from control or data-feed failures Requirements 2+ years at an NFA-regulated entity (FCM, introducing broker, swap dealer, or DCM) Direct experience with customer-fund segregation, residual interest, regulatory capital, or NFA/CFTC reporting, plus familiarity with WinJammer and the NFA's online systems Strong accounting and financial operations fundamentals: GL ownership, reconciliations, close, audit readiness Control mindset: validates numbers, investigates breaks, documents decisions, never lets unexplained differences roll forward Able to translate regulatory and accounting requirements into precise data and system requirements for engineers Highly organized, self-directed, honest, calm under pressure; leads across finance, compliance, legal, banking, and engineering with minimal oversight Nice to have Helped launch, register, or materially expand an FCM or other regulated market intermediary Institutional brokerage, crypto market infrastructure, or technology-forward FCM experience Strong Excel; Python and SQL used to automate controls and reporting Managed external accountants, auditors, banks, or regulatory examinations Strong AI tooling and automation skills (agents, assistants) Package Base: USD 140,000–250,000 Equity: 0.2%–0.5% On-site, San Francisco Bay Area Platinum health insurance, 100% premium covered Unlimited PTO, minimum three weeks Food in office; monthly team activity 401(k) match, fully vested Visa sponsorship available