Payments Liquidity Lead

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Payments Liquidity Lead based in India.

This role offers the opportunity to build and lead a critical liquidity operations function within a fast-growing global payments environment. You will be responsible for managing capital flows, optimizing corridor liquidity, and ensuring reliable cross-border settlement at scale. The position combines treasury expertise, payments operations, commercial strategy, and emerging blockchain-based financial infrastructure. You will work closely with business, finance, product, and technology teams to shape how liquidity is managed across a global payment network. This is a high-impact opportunity for someone who thrives in building new functions, making data-driven decisions, and operating in a fast-paced environment. You will play a key role in improving payment reliability, pricing accuracy, and capital efficiency as the platform expands.

• Build and operate the liquidity management function from the ground up, establishing processes, models, and operational frameworks to support global payment corridors.
• Own capital allocation and orchestration across payment corridors by determining liquidity placement, movement strategies, and corridor-level economics based on real-time customer demand.
• Manage intraday funding, rebalancing decisions, and liquidity execution activities to ensure payment flows remain reliable and efficient.
• Provide real-time treasury insights to commercial teams by evaluating corridor economics, pricing structures, and deal profitability during customer discussions.
• Partner with finance teams to develop a shared capital management model, ensuring commercial decisions align with financial governance and risk parameters.
• Manage foreign exchange exposure, hedge strategies, and currency liquidity across banking partners, exchanges, and digital asset platforms.
• Oversee relationships with liquidity providers, aggregators, and treasury infrastructure partners while negotiating operational agreements and improving execution processes.
• Develop AI-powered workflows to automate liquidity analysis, pricing models, reporting, monitoring, and operational decision-making.
• Track corridor performance, including exposure, costs, speed, and risk, and provide actionable insights to leadership teams.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to integrate liquidity requirements into platform capabilities and define future operational scaling needs.

Requirements:

• Proven experience managing live capital operations, liquidity books, treasury functions, or funding operations within payments companies, financial institutions, trading firms, or related environments.
• Strong expertise in cross-border payments, including FX exposure management, multi-currency liquidity, corridor operations, and settlement processes.
• Experience with stablecoin, cryptocurrency, or blockchain-based treasury operations is highly valuable due to the digital asset components of the role.
• Ability to independently build and operate a function, taking full ownership of models, processes, execution, and outcomes.
• Strong commercial understanding with the ability to evaluate deal economics, challenge assumptions, and communicate financial decisions clearly to business and executive stakeholders.
• Ability to make fast operational decisions within defined risk frameworks while knowing when escalation is required.
• Experience creating analytical models for pricing, profitability, liquidity forecasting, or operational optimization.
• Demonstrated use of AI-powered tools such as Claude or similar technologies to improve workflows, automate analysis, or enhance decision-making processes.
• Preferred experience working with payment aggregators, treasury platforms, liquidity providers, or trading infrastructure solutions.
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to operate effectively in a rapidly evolving technology environment.

Benefits:

• Remote-first global working environment with flexible work arrangements.
• Competitive compensation package based on experience and market standards.
• Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage where applicable.
• Retirement savings support with company matching benefits for eligible employees.
• Home office setup allowance to support productive remote work.
• Dedicated AI program allowance to encourage innovation and productivity.
• Monthly internet or phone reimbursement.
• Flexible paid time off policy.
• Company-provided laptop and required work equipment.
• Wellness programs, mental health support, and family-focused benefits.