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Senior Settlement Manager
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Published: 04 September
/ Deadline: 04 October
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Senior Settlement Manager (Digital Assets)
Tbilisi, On-site
We`re hiring on behalf of an international fintech group with regulated entities across multiple jurisdictions.
About the Role:
Crypto never sleeps, and once something settles, it settles — there`s no chargeback, no "undo, " no calling the bank to reverse it. That`s basically the whole job in one sentence: you make sure every deposit, withdrawal, trade settlement, OTC leg, staking payout, and institutional transfer goes out right, on time, every single time.
We`re talking about millions of dollars in client and corporate assets moving every year, where one wrong address or wrong network is permanent. So yeah, this is a serious role — but we`re not looking for someone who`s stiff or robotic about it. We want someone who`s genuinely good under pressure, sharp with details, and treats "100% accuracy" as just... the normal standard, not some heroic achievement.
You`ll run settlement day-to-day, own how the whole thing is controlled, and be the person people come to when something`s about to go sideways — right before it reaches the Deputy CFO.
What You`ll Do:
Keep Settlements Moving (and Correct):
** Own settlement end-to-end — crypto in/out, fiat payouts, stablecoin transfers, OTC trades, institutional funding, all of it
** Make sure everything lands on the right asset, right network, right memo/tag, right address — no exceptions
** Get comfortable working across multiple chains (BTC, ETH, L2s, Solana, Tron, etc.) — gas fees, congestion, reorgs, all the fun stuff
** Work inside dual-control / four-eyes setups — approve what`s yours to approve, escalate what`s not
** Personally handle the high-stakes, VIP, and institutional settlements — including proper callback checks before anything moves
Keep Everything Reconciled:
** Own daily reconciliation across on-chain balances, exchange ledgers, custodians, and bank accounts — unexplained gaps aren`t really a thing you let slide
** Make sure client and company money never mix, and keep the paper trail to prove it
** Chase down the weird stuff — stuck transactions, wrong-network deposits, dust, lost memos — until it`s actually resolved
** Keep a clean break log and root-cause tracker, and give Finance a clear weekly picture
Manage Wallets & Liquidity:
** Keep hot/warm/cold wallets funded and balanced so settlements never get stuck waiting on liquidity
** Take part in signing operations (MPC / multi-sig / HSM) — quorum ceremonies, break-glass procedures, the works
** Look ahead and flag liquidity shortfalls before they become actual problems
** Be the go-to person for custodians, banks, PSPs, market makers, and liquidity providers when something needs sorting
Own the Controls:
** Build and maintain the settlement control framework — whitelisting, limits, velocity checks, approval matrices, audit trails
** Run pre-transaction screening (Travel Rule, sanctions, Chainalysis/Elliptic/TRM) and hold anything that looks off
** Be the person audits and regulators talk to when they want to understand how settlement actually works
** Keep runbooks and disaster recovery plans current — and actually tested, not just filed away
** Make sure no single person, including you, can move client funds solo
Handle the Bad Days Well:
** Step up when things break — delayed withdrawals, banking outages, custodian downtime, chain halts, forks, anything sketchy
** Lead the freeze/recall/recovery call alongside Compliance, Risk, Legal, Security, and Support
** Turn every incident into a lesson — update the controls so it doesn`t happen the same way twice
Build the Team & Make Things Better:
** Lead and grow the settlement team across a 24/7 setup — clean handovers, clear escalations
** Push for automation wherever it makes sense — fewer manual steps, better tooling, less room for human error
** Work with Client Support on explaining settlement issues in plain language when clients need answers
** Own the KPIs and be ready to explain them to leadership — and occasionally the Board
Who You Are:
** 3-5+ years in settlement, payment ops, treasury, custody, or back-office roles in financial services — with at least a year leading a team
** You`ve actually done crypto settlement hands-on — exchange, custodian, OTC desk, market maker, prime broker, whatever the setting, it needs to be real experience
** Fluent in English and Russian
** You genuinely get on-chain mechanics — addresses, memos, confirmations, fees, chains, token standards — and you know exactly what happens when one of them goes wrong
** You`ve owned reconciliation at real volume, not just reviewed someone else`s spreadsheet
** You know your way around fiat rails too — SWIFT, SEPA, Fedwire/ACH, Faster Payments, plus stablecoin on/off-ramps
** You`ve worked inside dual-control, audited environments, and you actually understand why those rules exist
** You`ve been through a real settlement crisis and lived to tell the story
** You`ve got sharp attention to detail, but also good judgment — you know what to quietly fix, what to escalate, and what`s genuinely worth waking the CFO up for
If you`re the person your last team called when something needed to move right, fast, and with zero drama — apply now.
Send your CV to admin@gzamarketing.com.
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