Treasury & Trading Manager in London

About Aspora

People on the move deserve a bank that moves with them. Since 2022, Aspora has been building a borderless financial operating system that makes money as mobile and transparent as its users. Backed by influential venture capitalists like Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, Hummingbird Ventures, Y Combinator & Global Founders Capital. We are a team of 75+ across India, the UK, the UAE, EU and the US, working with extreme ownership, radical candour, and an obsession with customer impact. We celebrate builders who question assumptions, ship fast, and turn regulatory complexity into elegant solutions. If you are driven to redefine what global banking can be, we would love to build the future with you.

About the Role

Aspora is building the next generation of global money movement — across fiat, digital assets, and complex cross-border corridors. At the center of this engine sits Treasury and FX: deciding where capital sits, how fast it moves, what it costs, and how risk is managed at scale. As the Treasury & FX Trading Lead, you will own the end-to-end flow of money across Aspora's ecosystem — from collections and prefunding to FX execution, settlement, and liquidity optimization across currencies and corridors. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role. You will actively execute FX, manage real-time liquidity, design exposure frameworks, and build the operating backbone that keeps Aspora capital‐efficient, resilient, and settlement‐reliable under pressure. You will work closely with founders, product, engineering, finance, and external banking and liquidity partners to ensure Aspora can scale volumes without scaling trapped cash, operational risk, or FX leakage. This role blends market judgement, balance‐sheet thinking, and operational excellence — and is ideal for someone who has lived through T+0 pressure, understands corridor economics deeply, and wants to build a world‐class treasury engine from the ground up.

Location: London

Type: In‐office

What You Will Own

• Liquidity & Working Capital: Own working capital cycles end‐to‐end, build intraday and forward liquidity forecasts, and minimize idle cash across currencies and corridors.
• FX Execution & Risk: Execute and optimize FX (including exotics), manage spreads and margins, define exposure limits, and implement practical hedging strategies.
• Banking & Rails: Manage banking and payment‐rail partnerships with clear SLAs to ensure uptime, cut‐off coverage, and settlement reliability.
• Capital & Economics: Apply cost‐of‐capital thinking to prefunding and settlement decisions; support funding facilities and liquidity runway reporting.
• Controls & Reconciliation: Maintain daily, accounting‐grade cash positions; own reconciliation hygiene and treasury controls across regions.
• Automation & Reporting: Build scalable workflows and dashboards for liquidity, exposure, FX P&L, and corridor unit economics.
• Contingency Readiness: Maintain playbooks for rail outages, settlement failures, and volatility events.
• Bonus: exposure to digital FX, crypto liquidity, or alternative funding rails (where compliant).

What We Are Looking For

• 8+ years in Treasury, FX, or Capital Markets roles at a bank, fintech, or high‐volume cross‐border environment.
• Hands‐on experience with daily FX execution, liquidity positioning, and live settlements.
• Strong understanding of multi‐currency liquidity, corridor economics, and exotic currencies.
• Comfortable building SOPs, controls, and systems from scratch — and improving them continuously.
• Calm, decisive judgement in fast‐moving market environments.
• Bonus: experience with digital assets or on‐chain liquidity rails.

Why Join Aspora

• Build a high‐impact treasury and FX function from 0 → scale.
• Work at the intersection of markets, payments, and technology.
• Direct ownership over decisions that shape pricing, trust, and growth.
• Competitive compensation and early‐stage ESOPs.
• Mission‐driven, fast‐moving, and deeply collaborative team.

Interview Process

Our interview process is designed to stay practical, fast, and close to real work:

• Round 1: Experience & Execution Deep Dive (60 mins): A discussion with a senior leader focused on your hands‐on treasury, FX, and liquidity experience — how you have handled real flows, pressure situations, and decision trade‐offs.
• Round 2: Practical Case Discussion (75–90 mins): A real‐world scenario covering FX execution, liquidity positioning, or settlement resilience to understand how you think, prioritise, and act.
• Round 3: Founder Conversation (45–60 mins): A final conversation focused on ownership mindset, judgement, and how you would build and scale treasury at Aspora.