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The Role
Lead the financial transition for a crypto-focused organization, implementing financial controls, governance frameworks, and preparing for public market readiness.
Summary Generated by Built In
We are seeking an experienced Finance Director to lead our organization through a critical transition phase as we prepare for public market readiness. This strategic role focuses on establishing institutional-grade financial controls, governance frameworks, and audit preparedness essential for our growth trajectory in the evolving crypto landscape.
The ideal candidate will serve as Chair of our Audit and Risk Committee, bringing deep expertise in both traditional financial controls and the unique complexities of token-based revenue accounting. You will be responsible for implementing robust control frameworks that address both fiat and digital asset revenue flows, ensuring our financial operations meet the transparency and oversight standards expected by public companies and sophisticated investors.
This is a time-boxed advisory position designed as a "CFO-lite" setup role, where you will focus on building foundational systems and governance structures rather than day-to-day operational management. The successful candidate will have the vision to architect scalable financial processes while understanding the regulatory nuances of crypto revenue recognition, treasury management, and risk frameworks that will position our organization for long-term success in public markets.
Competencies:
- Crypto finance expertise: Token accounting, crypto-adjacent finance, exchange and vendor mechanics.
- Governance and controls: Audit-ready controls, SOX-style frameworks, disclosure compliance, ICFR mapping.
- Risk management: Risk registers, vendor diligence, incident handling, asset-protection practices.
- Treasury oversight: Policy design and reporting for crypto and fiat assets; counterparty limits and monitoring.
- Documentation hygiene: Board-grade writing, clean audit trails, accurate committee records, investor-ready reports.
- Strategic oversight: Connects technical finance detail to big-picture governance in a fast-moving crypto context.
Role Requirements:
- 4+ years in crypto or crypto-adjacent finance or audit leadership.
- Demonstrated experience with token accounting, treasury risk, and exchange/vendor management.
- Track record building DCP/ICFR or SOX-style environments and delivering audit-ready packages.
- Board-grade documentation and communication.
- Able to obtain outside-activity approval and sign conflicts and confidentiality letters.
Time & Compensation:
- Advisor trial (CFO-lite), 60–90 days
- Time: 0.5–1.0 day per week.
- Deliverables: 10-day close and day-12 board pack, PBC list, treasury policy v1, counterparty limits live, DCP/ICFR map, first incident and withdrawal drills, daily positions dashboard, data room stub.
- Compensation: Equity and tokens only.
- Director ongoing
- Time: 2–4 hours per month, plus quarterly Audit and Risk deep-dives.
- Scope: Chairs Audit and Risk, reviews not runs operations. Not a wallet signatory, payment approver, or ledger operator.
- Compensation: Equity and tokens only. Candidates must confirm “Yes” to equity and token-only compensation.
Location:
- Preferred: Austin.
- Open to: New York City, San Francisco, London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, or fully remote.
About Token Metrics
Token Metrics helps crypto investors build profitable portfolios using artificial intelligence-based crypto indices, rankings, and price predictions.
Token Metrics has a diverse set of customers, from retail investors and traders to crypto fund managers, in more than 50 countries.
Top Skills
Crypto Finance
Governance Frameworks
Sox-Style Frameworks
Token Accounting
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The Company
What We Do
Token Metrics is a cryptocurrency investment research platform that’s driven by machine learning and artificial intelligence. The company was founded by Ian Balina in 2017 as he traded his way from $20,000 to more than $5 million, logging all his trades in a public-facing spreadsheet that drew more than a million unique visitors per month. Ian’s Moneyball-style approach to crypto investing now forms the basis of the Token Metrics platform, which now helps thousands of customers around the world profitably play the crypto markets.
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