--- title: 'CFO/VP of Finance at Modern Treasury' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/cfo-vp-of-finance-modern-treasury-san-francisco-fpj6dvtzxt6c' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-12' --- # CFO/VP of Finance at Modern Treasury - **Company:** Modern Treasury - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Compensation:** $250k–$400k - **Employment:** full-time - **Posted:** 2026-09-10 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/moderntreasury/640fc452-f6df-4155-a36c-cdaa13ff449b ## Job description ## OVERVIEW Modern Treasury is hiring a finance leader to shape the company’s next phase of growth. This is a strategic role with broad influence across the business. This person will partner closely with the CEO and management team on company strategy, organizational design, and resource allocation. They will play a key role in building and scaling Modern Treasury’s payments business, helping shape its business model, partner economics, pricing, and path to attractive long-term unit economics. More broadly, they will help determine where we invest our people and capital to create long-term company and shareholder value, while bringing a rigorous economic perspective to product, pricing, and strategic decisions. They will also lead our approach to capital markets and strategic transactions, serve as a clear and credible partner to our Board and investors, and build and scale the finance organization, including defining how AI should transform the way the function operates. This role reports to our CEO. ## ABOUT MODERN TREASURY Modern Treasury provides trusted infrastructure for money movement. We help teams launch and scale payment experiences in days, not months. With best-in-class developer tools and a single API for fiat and stablecoins, plus built-in compliance, ledgering, and reporting, Modern Treasury enables businesses to move money instantly, reliably, and at scale. ## WHAT YOU’LL DO - Shape company and operating model: Partner with the CEO and management team on the decisions that determine how Modern Treasury is built and where it focuses. Help shape organizational structure, including teams, roles, and responsibilities. - Drive resource allocation and long-term value creation: Help determine where we should invest our people and capital to create the greatest long-term company and shareholder value. - Guide the economics of our product: Bring an economic lens to product strategy and roadmap decisions and pricing and packaging, including the expected value of new products and capabilities, investment tradeoffs, and build, buy, or partner decisions. Negotiate with financial partners and banks, and drive the economics that make our payments business work. - Lead capital markets and strategic transactions: Identify and consult on the best way to meet our capital needs. Lead primary capital raises, debt facilities, M&A and other strategic transactions, as needed. - Partner with the Board and key investors: Communicate Modern Treasury's financial performance, outlook, and strategy clearly and credibly. Help the board and investors understand both the company's near-term performance and long-term opportunity. - Lead and scale the finance function: Build and manage a high-performing team and scale it over time as the business becomes larger and more complex. - Set AI strategy for finance: Develop and implement a point of view on how AI can make the finance organization more effective, from how the team operates to the capabilities it can provide to the rest of the company. ## WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR - You have a combination of strategic judgment, commercial instincts, and financial depth. - You think and act as a company builder and a driver (not a passenger). - You've navigated strategic transactions such as primary capital raises, debt financings, or M&A. - You're a strong communicator and storyteller who can represent the business clearly and credibly with boards, investors, and other external stakeholders. - You've operated in a high-growth startup and with experience in investment banking, private equity, or venture capital as a plus. - You have fintech experience in the infrastructure or application layer with payments experience as a strong plus. - Note on leveling: Depending on the person, this could be a VP of Finance or a Chief Financial Officer role. Modern Treasury is committed to equal employment opportunity and does not discriminate in any employment opportunities or practices based on an individual's race, color, creed, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), religion (all aspects of religious beliefs, observance or practice, including religious dress or grooming practices), marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry (including language use restrictions and possession of a driver’s license issued under California Vehicle Code section 12801.9), natural hair, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, medical condition (including cancer or a record or history of cancer, and genetic characteristics), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical condition), genetic information, sexual orientation, military and veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. It also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics. Modern Treasury participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. ## About Modern Treasury ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Modern Treasury provides a single API and unified ledger for fiat and stablecoin payment infrastructure, enabling companies to launch and scale money movement products rapidly. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series C; total funding $183M) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (with an additional office in New York, NY and presence in Spain) - **Founded**: 2018 - **Founders**: Matt Marcus (CEO) and Dimitri Dadiomov (President & Co-Founder) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Financial technology (payments infrastructure, banking-as-a-service) - **Target customers**: B2B – enterprises, financial institutions, fintechs, marketplaces, payroll platforms, and any business that moves money at scale. - **Mission or purpose statement**: “To be the most trusted infrastructure for global money movement” and to help money move “at the speed of the internet” by bridging fiat and stablecoin rails. ## Products & Services - **Payment Operations API**: A single RESTful API that abstracts ACH, FedNow, wire, and stablecoin rails, enabling companies to send and receive money, manage accounts, and reconcile in real time. - **Programmable Accounts**: Virtual account creation and management with a real-time ledger for tracking balances, deposits, and transfers. - **Stablecoin Orchestration**: On‑ and off‑ramp stablecoin transactions (e.g., USDC) alongside traditional fiat rails, with built‑in compliance. - **Wallet Infrastructure**: Digital wallet support for holding and moving both fiat and stablecoins under one ledger. - **B2B Invoicing & Cross‑Border Payments**: Unified payments for invoicing, global USD accounts, and multi‑currency collections/payouts. - **Embedded Solutions for Marketplaces, Payroll, Lending, Card Issuing & Rewards**: Pre‑built modules that let platforms embed payment capabilities without rebuilding back‑end infrastructure. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$183M** (across Pre‑Seed, Seed, Series A, and two Series C rounds). The company reports having processed **over $600 billion in payments** (website) – though LinkedIn cites “over $400 billion” (likely an earlier figure). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Benchmark (led Series A), Altimeter Capital (led Series C), Salesforce Ventures, and several other institutional investors. Acqui‑hire of Beam. - **Growth Signals**: - Launched stablecoin orchestration and global USD accounts, indicating expansion into crypto‑native and cross‑border use cases. - Active job postings: **17 open roles** as of mid‑2026, with monthly postings up 21.4% and yearly postings up 325% – suggesting renewed headcount growth after a significant reduction (headcount dropped 39.6% YoY to ~98 employees). - Multiple industry‑focused solutions (payroll, lending, card issuing) signal product‑led expansion. ## Competitive Advantages - **Dual‑rail platform**: Unlike competitors that focus solely on fiat (e.g., Plaid, Finicity) or solely on crypto (e.g., Circle), Modern Treasury unifies fiat and stablecoin rails in a single API with a real‑time ledger. - **Proven scale**: Over $600B in payments processed, used by “hundreds of organizations” including leading enterprises and financial institutions. - **Compliance built‑in**: Automated compliance workflows for both fiat and stablecoin transactions reduce regulatory burden for clients. - **Developer experience**: “One API, go live in days, not months” with best‑in‑class developer tools and documentation. - **Uptime guarantee**: 99.99% uptime for core platform. ## Strategic Focus - **Stablecoin leadership**: Betting heavily on stablecoin regulatory clarity to become the default infrastructure for companies that want to offer both fiat and crypto payments. - **Global expansion**: Enabling cross‑border payments and USD accounts for international businesses, reducing reliance on correspondent banking. - **Platform depth**: Adding vertical‑specific modules (payroll, lending, card issuing) to move up‑stack and increase wallet share with existing customers. - **Go‑to‑market efficiency**: After a period of contraction (headcount down ~40% YoY), the company is re‑hiring selectively, focusing on engineering, security, and customer success roles. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as “principled operators solving some of the hardest problems in money movement.” The team values “trust, curiosity, and constructive feedback” and moves fast while thinking deeply. - **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Offices in San Francisco (77 Geary St.) and New York (184 Fifth Ave.). The presence of at least one employee in Spain suggests some remote flexibility, but the majority of roles appear to be US‑based with an expectation of in‑office presence in SF or NYC. - **Notable perks**: - Unlimited PTO - Comprehensive healthcare (HMO, PPO, dental, vision) - 16 weeks paid parental leave - Family planning resources (Carrot) - Home office stipend & books/learning stipend - 401(k) through Fidelity - Charitable donation matching - **Engineering culture**: Strong developer tooling focus; the engineering team (43 people) works on ledgering, APIs, security, and stablecoin infrastructure. Recent job openings include multiple Software Engineer (Security) and Infrastructure roles, indicating investment in reliability and trust. - **Rating**: 3.5/5 on employer rating (42 reviews) – with highest marks for Work‑Life Balance (4.2) and Culture (4.0), lowest for Career Development (3.3). The recent VP of People departure (Feb 2026) may signal organizational change. ## Sources 1. [moderntreasury.com](https://www.moderntreasury.com/) 2. [moderntreasury.com/about](https://www.moderntreasury.com/about) 3. [LinkedIn – Modern Treasury](https://www.linkedin.com/company/modern-treasury) 4. [moderntreasury.com/solutions](https://www.moderntreasury.com/solutions) 5. 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