Location: San Francisco
Reporting to: Tilia GM and Thunes Head of Finance US
Role Context
Tilia will operate with its own P&L, while integrating into Thunes’ reporting, treasury, and governance standards. In the payments context, Finance is an operational finance function that ensures settlement integrity, reconciliation accuracy, revenue tracking, and scalable reporting.
This role will build and lead a finance function covering financial reporting, revenue operations, invoicing & collections, reconciliation, and bank account management.
Role Purpose
- Owning payments finance operations: reconciliation and settlement integrity.
- Building and delivering monthly BU reporting and P&L management aligned with Thunes reporting standards.
- Driving planning and forecast discipline aligned to FY26 growth targets.
- The Senior Accountant will report to the Head of Finance of Thunes USA
1. Financial Reporting & BU P&L
- Prepare monthly P&L and executive reporting for the Tilia BU.
- Interface with Thunes finance to ensure reporting and governance alignment.
- Own pipeline tracking, revenue forecasting, and performance reporting.
- Partner with Sales and Product to support pricing models and contract economics.
- Prepare and issue invoices in line with contract terms.
- Track collections, resolve disputes, and ensure receivable health.
- Own reconciliation for pay-in and pay-out flows with partners and customers.
- Drive process improvement and automation to reduce reconciliation discrepancies.
- Manage settlement-related (including safeguarding account) bank accounts and ensure best practice controls.
- Partner with Thunes Treasury and Finance to optimize liquidity and settlement processes.
- 6-8 years finance experience, ideally in payments, fintech, or processing environments.
- Strong understanding of settlement cycles, reconciliation, controls, and payments revenue recognition.
- Experience in budgeting, forecasting, and executive-level reporting for scaling businesses.
- Extremely detail-oriented with strong controls and governance mindset.
- Operational rigor, process improvement orientation, and automation mindset.
- Able to balance startup build velocity with regulated business discipline.
- Confident interfacing with Group Finance and senior executive stakeholders.
Skills Required
- 6-8 years finance experience
- Strong understanding of settlement cycles and financial controls
- Experience in budgeting and forecasting for scaling businesses
What We Do
Thunes is a B2B cross-border payments network for emerging markets. Our global platform provides seamless transfer of funds between payment systems in more than 100 countries and 60 currencies. We enable mobile wallet providers, technology companies, PSPs, money transfer operators and banks to make financial services accessible worldwide. We offer four key payment solutions: •Remittance processing, which fosters worldwide financial inclusion •Mass payouts, which support globalisation and the sharing economy •Virtual Accounts, which help corporates around the world boost their revenue •Business payments, which enable businesses to trade easily across borders Since Thunes was established in 2016, we’ve processed real-time transactions for millions of people across the world. Thunes is headquartered in Singapore with regional offices in London, Shanghai and New York.
