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# Financial Operations Manager at BitGo

- **Company:** BitGo
- **Location:** Palo Alto California, United States
- **Posted:** 2026-03-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/bitgo/jobs/8436572002

## Job description

BitGo is the leading infrastructure provider of digital asset solutions, delivering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, and settlement services from regulated cold storage. Since our founding in 2013, we have focused on enabling our clients to securely navigate the digital asset space. With a global presence and multiple Trust companies, BitGo serves thousands of institutions, including many of the industry's top brands, exchanges, and platforms, and millions of retail investors worldwide. As the operational backbone of the digital economy, BitGo handles a significant portion of Bitcoin network transactions and is the largest independent digital asset custodian, and staking provider, in the world. For more information, visit [www.bitgo.com](http://www.bitgo.com/).

This role will require being full-time onsite at our Palo Alto office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problem-solving.

About the Role:

We are seeking a hands-on Financial Operations Manager to support and strengthen our finance operations within a fast-paced, regulated environment. This role blends financial control, treasury oversight, regulatory coordination, and cross-functional business partnership.

You will help ensure operational excellence across financial reporting, liquidity management, and internal controls, while delivering actionable insights to support leadership decision-making.

This role is well-suited to a proactive operator who thrives in high-growth environments, takes ownership, and continuously improves processes.

What You’ll Do:

Financial Operations & Reporting:

- Support the day-to-day finance function, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting.
- Contribute to monthly, quarterly, and year-end close processes.
- Support external audits and financial reviews, ensuring timely and accurate deliverables.
- Maintain accurate books and records, including reconciliations and supporting documentation.
- Strengthen internal controls, documentation standards, and compliance processes.
- Partner with business leaders to align financial insights with operational objectives.

Treasury & Liquidity Management:

- Oversee cash flow monitoring and liquidity management.
- Partner with treasury on forecasting and funding strategies.
- Support treasury-related initiatives to enhance capital planning and efficiency.

Regulatory & Accounting Partnership:

- Partner with Accounting to review accounting policies, estimates, and financial statement adjustments.
- Support regulatory readiness through strong financial governance and documentation.

Process Improvement & Strategic Projects:

- Identify and implement process improvements to enhance scalability and automation.
- Collaborate with international finance teams to drive consistency and best practices.
- Lead cross-functional financial projects supporting strategic initiatives.

What We’re Looking For:

Experience & Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field; CPA or MBA preferred.
- 5+ years of progressive experience in finance, accounting, or financial operations, including experience in a regulated financial services environment (payments, banking, fintech, or digital assets).
- Strong understanding of financial reporting, internal controls, and operational finance.
- Experience supporting audits and preparing financial statements.
- Working knowledge of US GAAP and/or IFRS.

Technical & Analytical Skills:

- Advanced Excel proficiency.
- ERP experience, NetSuite strongly preferred.
- Experience with finance systems such as Coupa, FloQast, Jira, or similar tools is a plus.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate financial data into clear insights.

Leadership & Operating Style:

- Hands-on, detail-oriented, and accountable.
- Comfortable building and refining processes in evolving environments.
- Strong project management and prioritization skills.
- Effective communicator who collaborates well across departments.
- Able to operate effectively in regulated, high-growth environments with competing deadlines.

Nice to Have:

- Experience in digital assets or crypto.
- Background in high-growth fintech or technology companies.
- Strong interest in the evolving digital asset ecosystem.

Why Join BitGo?

Disrupting an industry takes vision, innovation, passion, technical chops, drive to deliver, collaboration, and execution. Join a team of great people who strive for excellence and personify our corporate values of ownership, craftsmanship, and open communication. We are looking for new colleagues who bring innovative ways of thinking and problem solving, and who want risks to be part of the team that changes the world’s financial markets.

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending upon your leveling and location, the compensation for this role averages between $150,000 - $175,000 USD base salary. Equity, an annual performance bonus and the benefits outlined below are also a part of this role's package.

Here are some of the benefits* of working at BitGo:

- Competitive base salary, bonus and stock options
- 100% company paid health insurance for employee, partner and dependents
- Up to 4% 401k company match
- Paid parental leave, Paid vacation
- Free commuter/parking pass
- Free custom lunches, dinners and snacks
- Computer equipment and workplace furniture to suit your needs
- Great colleagues and inspiring startup environment

*Benefits may vary based on location

## About BitGo

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: BitGo is a digital asset infrastructure and financial services company providing secure custody, staking, trading, and stablecoin solutions for institutional investors and builders.
- **Entity Type**: Private – raised $384.3M in total funding (last venture round in 2024)
- **Headquarters**: Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Mike Belshe, Ben Davenport, Will O'Brien, Bill Lee

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Digital asset custody, blockchain infrastructure, financial services (cryptocurrency)
- Target customers: Institutional investors, enterprises, fintechs, and asset managers (B2B)
- Mission: "Accelerating the transition of the financial system to the digital asset economy" [bitgo.com](https://www.bitgo.com/)

## Products & Services
- **BitGo Custody**: Multi-signature hot and cold wallet custody services, with non-custodial and custodial configurations – secures over $100B in digital assets.
- **BitGo Prime**: Prime brokerage services for institutional trading, including OTC and electronic trading.
- **BitGo Staking**: Staking infrastructure for proof-of-stake assets.
- **Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC)**: BitGo serves as the sole custodian for bitcoin backing the WBTC token, enabling Bitcoin liquidity on Ethereum.
- **Stablecoin Issuance**: Issuer of SoFiUSD (for SoFi Bank) and custodian for USD1 (World Liberty Financial) and frxUSD (fractional reserve stablecoin).
- **Blockchain Security APIs**: APIs for transaction building, signing, and settlement.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $384.3M; assets under custody – over $100B in digital assets; secures ~20% of all on-chain Bitcoin transactions by value [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bitgo)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Redpoint Ventures (led Series A), Galaxy Digital and Goldman Sachs Growth Equity (led Series B), Valor Equity Partners, Craft Ventures, and other investors.
- **Growth Signals**: Acquired Brassica (2024), Harbor (2020), Hedge (2019), HeightZero (2023), and Lumina (2020). However, headcount declined ~75% YoY to 65 employees as of early 2026, though the company has 51 active job postings across engineering, sales, compliance, and trust administration [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bitgo) [Greenhouse](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/bitgo)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Largest independent digital asset custodian** – trusted by institutions and issuers of major tokens (WBTC, stablecoins).
- **Multisignature security model** – keys split between custodian and wallet owner, with both hot and cold storage options.
- **Regulatory trust infrastructure** – operates as a qualified custodian and trust company in multiple jurisdictions.
- **10+ years of operational history** in the volatile crypto market, surviving multiple cycles.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening institutional-grade prime services (trading, lending, settlement).
- Expanding stablecoin issuance and custody partnerships (SoFi, World Liberty Financial).
- Growing international presence with offices in 9 countries (US, Canada, UK, Singapore, India, UAE, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan).
- Leveraging acquisitions (Brassica, Harbor) to offer tokenization and transfer agent services.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture values**: Open communication, craftsmanship, accountability, collaboration, client-first [bitgo.com](https://www.bitgo.com/company/careers/)
- **Benefits**: Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance; competitive compensation with stock options; 401k plan; top-end computer equipment [bitgo.com](https://www.bitgo.com/company/careers/)
- **Work environment**: Global, distributed team; hybrid/remote flexibility (multiple remote roles listed); offices in Palo Alto, New York, Toronto, London, Singapore, Dubai, and others.
- **Engineering culture**: Polyglot stack, focus on security and blockchain protocols; strong hiring from Google, Amazon, Coinbase, and Waterloo.
- **Notable**: Despite recent headcount reduction, the company is actively hiring for engineering, sales, compliance, and trust roles – a sign of strategic refocusing.

## Sources
1. [bitgo.com](https://www.bitgo.com/)
2. [bitgo.com/careers](https://www.bitgo.com/company/careers/)
3. [bitgo.com/about](https://www.bitgo.com/company/about-us/)
4. [Greenhouse Jobs](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/bitgo)
5. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bitgo)

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