Senior Finance Manager, Settlement & Reconciliation

The role

This person will lead and enhance settlement and reconciliation operations for digital assets and fiat. They will bridge Finance, Settlement Operations, Product, and Engineering to ensure scalable and controlled system-driven processes.

What you will do

• Lead and oversee day-to-day settlement operations across digital asset and fiat transactions.
• Establish and improve settlement procedures, controls, and escalation mechanisms.
• Develop understanding of end-to-end settlement system architecture and transaction data flow.
• Work with Product and Engineering to define settlement-related system requirements.
• Own and oversee Digital Asset reconciliation including customer balances and wallet/on-chain balances.
• Own and oversee Fiat reconciliation across customer balances and banking records.
• Oversee transaction-level reconciliation for customer trades, deposits, withdrawals, and transfers.
• Partner with Finance to ensure settlement data supports accurate accounting and audit requirements.
• Build and maintain settlement and reconciliation SOPs, controls, and governance frameworks.
• Manage and develop the settlement team.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• Significant experience in settlement, clearing, reconciliation, transaction operations, custody, or related financial operations, with experience in a managerial or senior leadership role.
• Strong experience with customer transaction reconciliation and transaction-level data analysis.
• Solid understanding of trading lifecycle and settlement processes.
• Prior experience in traditional financial institutions, such as banks, securities firms, broker-dealers, exchanges, clearing houses, custodians, payment institutions, or other transaction-intensive fi
• Strong understanding of how trading systems, settlement systems, reconciliation platforms, and accounting systems interact.
• Ability to understand system and data architecture and translate operational or finance requirements into clear requirements for Product and Engineering teams.
• Strong experience in designing or defining operational reports, reconciliation reports, and transaction-level data requirements.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong understanding of operational controls, data completeness, accuracy, and transaction traceability.
• Excellent stakeholder-management and communication skills.
• Strong ownership mindset.

Nice to have

• Experience in cryptocurrency, digital assets, exchanges, fintech, brokerage, or other high-volume transaction platforms.
• Hands-on experience with digital asset / wallet / on-chain reconciliation.
• Experience with fiat payment, banking, custodian, or payment-service-provider reconciliation.
• Experience participating in settlement or reconciliation system implementation and transformation projects.
• Experience working with Product and Engineering teams on system design, data requirements, reporting logic, UAT, and process automation.
• Familiarity with accounting systems, general ledger processes, and period-end financial reconciliation.
• Experience supporting internal or external audit requests relating to transaction completeness, settlement, or reconciliation.
• SQL, data analytics, or other data-querying experience

Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package
• L&D programs and Education subsidy for employees' growth and development
• Various team building programs and company events
• Wellness and meal allowances
• Comprehensive healthcare schemes for employees and dependants

About the company

OKX is a leading crypto exchange and the developer of OKX Wallet. It is part of OKG, a group that brings the value of Blockchain to users around the world.