Director of Financial Operations, Talos
$200-230k
+ Equity + Bonus
3+ days a week in office
Empowering institutions to trade and manage digital assets
Be an early applicant
Empowering institutions to trade and manage digital assets
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-230k
+ Equity + Bonus
3+ days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To provide institutional-grade technology that supports the full digital asset investment lifecycle, including liquidity sourcing, price discovery, trading, settlement and portfolio management.
Role
Who you are
- The position is suited to a hands-on finance leader who can build high-performing teams, optimize processes, and operate effectively in a complex, multi-entity digital assets environment
- 10+ years of progressive experience in financial operations or accounting, with at least 3 years in a leadership role
- Deep expertise across financial operations functions in a multi-entity environment
- Experience in digital assets strongly preferred; SaaS, fintech, or financial services background highly desirable
- Strong understanding of internal controls and experience building scalable processes
- Hands-on experience with ERP systems (e.g. Sage Intacct), expense platforms (e.g. Brex), and payroll systems (e.g. Justworks, Oyster, Rippling)
- CPA or equivalent professional qualification preferred
- Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple concurrent workflows and deadlines
- Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across global, cross-functional teams
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Director, Financial Operations to lead and scale Talos’ core transactional finance functions across multiple global entities
- This role owns the accuracy, timeliness, and control integrity of financial operations, spanning invoicing, cash application, collections, accounts payable, expenses, payroll, and financial close
- Own and manage the monthly close calendar across all entities, ensuring timely and accurate completion
- Oversee accruals, prepayments, deferrals, intercompany eliminations, and balance sheet reconciliations
- Implement robust reconciliation and review frameworks with clear ownership and documentation standards
- Partner with FP&A and Financial Reporting to deliver accurate, complete financials on schedule
- Drive automation and process improvements to reduce close cycle time
- Oversee preparation, review, and posting of recurring and non-recurring journal entries
- Ensure entries are properly supported, approved, and compliant with internal policies
- Identify and implement opportunities to automate recurring entries
- Maintain journal entry logs and support audit and controls requirements
- Own the end-to-end invoicing process across entities, ensuring accuracy and timeliness
- Enforce billing policies including correct entity attribution, currency, and tax treatment
- Partner with Revenue and Legal to ensure contract terms are accurately reflected in billing systems
- Oversee intercompany invoicing and ensure proper reconciliation and elimination
- Optimize invoice-to-cash cycle and billing workflows
- Own cash application processes, ensuring accurate and timely posting of receipts
- Lead collections efforts, managing AR aging and resolving outstanding balances
- Establish collections policies, escalation protocols, and DSO targets
- Partner with internal teams to resolve billing disputes and ensure accurate revenue recognition
- Manage the full AP cycle including invoice processing, approvals, and payments
- Ensure strong controls, segregation of duties, and timely vendor payments
- Maintain vendor master data integrity and compliance documentation
- Drive process improvements including automation and three-way matching enhancements
- Oversee employee expense and T&E programs, ensuring policy compliance across regions
- Review and approve expense reports for accuracy and appropriate coding
- Manage corporate card programs, including controls, reconciliation, and policy enforcement
- Analyze spend trends to inform budgeting and cost management
- Maintain and update T&E policies in collaboration with key stakeholders
- Oversee global payroll operations, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance across jurisdictions
- Partner with People and Legal on regulatory and tax compliance requirements
- Maintain payroll controls, approvals, and audit trails
- Manage payroll vendors and support system enhancements or migrations
- Ensure payroll is accurately recorded and reconciled within the general ledger
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing financial operations team
- Foster a culture of accountability, accuracy, and continuous improvement
- Partner with Finance leadership, FP&A, Financial Reporting, and other functions to support business objectives
- Lead systems and process improvement initiatives across the finance stack
- Develop and maintain policies and procedures supporting a strong controls environment
- Act as the primary escalation point for financial operations and represent the function in audits and cross-functional initiatives
Our take
So far, the increasing institutional interest in the value of crypto-assets has been stymied by a lack of scaled, efficient, and secure infrastructure that these institutions could use for trade. Talos addresses the problem of digital asset trading between institutions, helping them to securely sidestep these obstacles into a fresh market with potentially huge returns.
The company provides a range of end-to-end, highly configurable tools to populate and facilitate the institutional crypto-asset market from just one platform. Talos' approach is helping to lower the bar for wide-ranging adoption of cryptocurrency, supporting the full lifespan of digital assets trading. That said, because the company is developing an entirely new asset class market, progress is accelerated, and competition may have a chance to overtake.
Promising for Talos was the interest of prominent investors, including PayPal and Fidelity, during their Series A and B funding rounds. The funds were used to create an institutional-grade service that would help shape and spearhead this developing market. More recently, the company has formed several significant partnerships, including with BlackRock, and acquired D3X Systems, the integration of which will enable its clients to design, validate, implement, and manage highly customised portfolios.
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Insights
62% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2026
$45m
SERIES B
May 2022
$105m
SERIES B
Total funding: $196m
Company benefits
- Retirement plan contribution
- Bonus and stock ownership plan
- Medical, dental, vision insurance
- Unlimited Vacation + PTO Bonus: Talos provides their employees with unlimited PTO. Employees that take 15 days of vacation, with 5 days being consecutive, receive a $2000 USD bonus.
- Paid parental leave for 20 weeks
- Genuine flexible working; Typically dependent on the team, but it's encouraged for employees to discuss flexible working options with their manager
- Global offsites and team outings
- Family building & reproductive care support
- Home office stipend: Talos Employees receive a one-time stipend towards their at home office set-up.
- Wellness Credit: Talos employees are provided with a wellness credit of $50 USD accrued monthly, to go towards things like gym memberships, ski passes, massages, and work out classes
- Talos employees receive a credit of $25 USD towards their lunch, when they are in office.
- Donation matching up to $100 USD annually
- One of our core goals is simple: "Be the best place to work, seriously.” Everything we offer is built with that in mind. At Talos, benefits are designed to support your whole life—not just your role. That means comprehensive healthcare (including dental, vision, and mental health support), financial support for family planning, and up to five months of fully paid parental leave so you can plan for the future with confidence. You’ll also have the flexibility to work in a way that suits you, with a hybrid model, a generous home office setup budget, and unlimited holiday—plus a $2,000 bonus to encourage you to actually take it. On top of that, every employee receives a company card with pre-loaded budgets, including $450 per month for meals and coffees, and $600 per year in wellness credit to spend on whatever helps you feel your best. Day to day, the experience is designed to feel energising, social, and sustainable. Whether it’s fitness sessions, cycle-to-work schemes, team lunches, or regular socials and offsites, there are plenty of ways to stay active and connected. Alongside this, we prioritise financial security through pension contributions, income protection, and comprehensive insurance—so you can focus on doing great work in a genuinely supportive and inclusive environment.
- FSA & HSA benefits
Company values
- Ideas over egos: We take a collaborative and systematic approach to problem solving. Everyone’s voice is heard and appreciated, and everyone is expected to make an impact. New ideas and rigorous debate are commonplace.
- Decentralized but tight-knit: Crypto is geographically distributed – and so are we. But we’re close-knit and our doors (real-life and Zoom-life) are always open. Our teams operate with flexibility and autonomy.
- Out-of-the-box thinking: We look for entrepreneurial, non-linear thinkers who are passionate about their work and can imagine creative, ground-breaking solutions. After all, we’re seeking to reshape an industry.
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London
Articles
Leadership
Anton Katz
(Co-Founder & CEO)Anton previously led trading technology at AQR, held senior roles at Broadway Technology, began his career at Microsoft, and holds a CS degree from MIT.
Ethan Feldman
(Co-Founder & CTO)Ethan previously spent a decade at Broadway Technology, began his career at Microsoft, and holds undergraduate and graduate CS degrees from Cornell.
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