VP Finance - Bastion

Bastion is looking for a VP of Finance to build scalable finance systems and processes. This hands-on leadership role involves overseeing financial reporting, regulatory filings, and strategic financial planning.

Bastion builds regulated financial infrastructure for modern businesses. Bastion's full stack product suite covers stablecoin issuance, custodial wallet infrastructure, and global asset conversion rails, with the flexibility to deploy individual capabilities or combine them end-to-end. Bastion's regulated foundation underpins a compliance-first approach to risk management, ensuring the integrity and security of all financial activity within its systems. Bastion holds the appropriate licenses for its own operations, but can also act as a service provider, offering compliance and financial operations support under our customers’ licenses.

Instead of a list of requirements, we want to give you a directional look into the first 30, 90, and 180 days on the job. We are a startup, so the pace is fast and the specific work will change. People who thrive here are finding ways to contribute in their first week, and fully productive in their third month. You need to be okay with that. If you think this is something you can handle, we will be excited to speak with you.

• •Immerse yourself in Bastion's financial infrastructure.
• •Review all active regulatory reporting obligations—understand what gets filed, when, with which regulators, and who currently prepares each submission.
• •Meet with Legal, Compliance, and Risk to understand the regulatory landscape that drives your reporting obligations and how the regulatory environment is expected to evolve.
• •Partner with the team to understand their domains, where handoffs happen, and where accounting and treasury workflows need tighter integration.
• •Review the current FP&A cadence: how budgets are built, how actuals are tracked against plan, what visibility leadership and department heads have into their spending, and where the gaps are.

• •Run the month-end close process and drive improvements: reduce cycle time, improve accuracy, eliminate manual workarounds, and establish a close calendar that the team can execute reliably every month.
• •Take ownership of all regulatory reporting: ensure every filing is accurate, complete, and submitted on time. Build the review and sign-off process so that regulatory submissions don't depend on a single person's institutional knowledge.
• •Build the FP&A rhythm the business needs: monthly budget-vs-actual reporting, department cost allocation, variance analysis, and the financial visibility that department leads and leadership currently lack.

• •Own the annual planning process: build the financial model, facilitate department-level budgeting, and produce the plan that connects revenue targets to headcount to burn rate to runway.
• •Prepare the finance function for increasing regulatory complexity: as the company's regulatory footprint expands, ensure that reporting capabilities, controls, and processes scale ahead of the requirements rather than scrambling to catch up.
• •Develop your team: assess capabilities, identify gaps, make hiring recommendations, and build the finance organization that the company will need over the next 12-18 months.

• •Equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment.
• •Prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type.
• •Participation in E-Verify to authorize eligibility of employment in the United States.

• •Experience in highly regulated industries (financial services in particular) is a strong bonus.
• •Background in accounting and financial reporting.
• •Ability to drive strategic financial planning and build FP&A capabilities.
• •Comfortable reviewing journal entries and presenting financial analysis to the board.