Head of Treasury

About the company

Xendit builds payment infrastructure for Southeast Asia and is also growing into Greater China and Latin America. Its platform supports payment processing, marketplace payouts, payroll and loan disbursements, KYC services, fraud prevention, and growth enablement for businesses. The company offers APIs, eCommerce integrations, and user-friendly applications for solo entrepreneurs, SMEs, and large enterprises. Its core mission is to make payments across and within Southeast Asia simple, secure, and effortless.

Founded in 2015, the business has scaled quickly, serving thousands of companies, handling millions of transactions every month, welcoming hundreds of new customers each month, and receiving backing from leading global venture capital firms. It has also been recognized by Y Combinator among the fastest-growing companies.

About the role

The Head of Treasury will be the key owner of Xendit’s treasury function and will shape the systems, strategy, and execution behind it. This position sits at the center of finance, product, and strategy, with responsibility for the treasury profit and loss and for ensuring that cash and local currencies are deployed as efficiently and profitably as possible.

The role calls for a commercially minded leader who operates with an ownership mindset. You will handle complex cross-border liquidity issues, negotiate FX economics, improve returns on held funds, and help introduce advanced financial instruments where useful. The work combines disciplined risk management with ambitious growth, all within a fast-moving environment where the treasury function is expected to be built and refined at a high level.

Responsibilities

• Take full ownership of treasury P&L and drive profit maximization.
• Improve the return on funds and lower costs so that float balances and cross-border movements create more value.
• Partner with Growth on pricing approaches for FX, post-funding, and early settlement.
• Work with global banking partners on FX rates, fees, deposit yields, fund placements, and liquidity support, while the formal banking relationships remain with Financial Partnerships.
• Define the right bank account architecture and decide how float should be allocated across global and local entities.
• Build accurate forecasts for liquidity requirements across Xendit.
• Assess newer financial instruments such as stablecoins and collaborate with internal teams to enable suitable use cases.
• Track and manage treasury P&L components, including revenue from merchant balances, liquidity arrangements, and FX, as well as costs from bank charges, financing, hedging, and partner spread expenses.
• Align treasury objectives with Compliance to ensure safeguarding and regulatory requirements are met.
• Coordinate with Risk to manage FX exposure and related risk frameworks effectively.
• Work with Financial Operations to operationalize liquidity planning and float deployment.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to determine whether to build or buy treasury tooling and to productize efficient cross-border fund movement.
• Collaborate with Sales and Account Management on commercial pricing for FX and liquidity.
• Coordinate with Financial Partnerships to align on partner targets needed to support treasury goals.
• Liaise with Finance and Accounting to execute company and operational fund movements.

Requirements

• 7 to 10 years of treasury experience, including 3 to 5 years leading treasury in fintech or a similar environment.
• Hands-on experience improving yields on held funds, such as interest-bearing balances and time deposits.
• Strong background in FX management, including spread guidance, hedging, and netting strategies.
• Proven ability to design and implement funding and liquidity strategies.
• Experience selecting, negotiating with, and managing financial partners that support liquidity, such as banks and debt providers.
• Ability to define the technology and tool stack needed for a treasury function.
• Excellent communication skills and a strong ability to build internal and external relationships.
• Preferred: experience with stablecoins.
• Preferred: experience managing FX risk.
• Preferred: experience in a fast-moving fintech startup.

Additional information

This is a strategic, high-ownership treasury leadership role based in Singapore and performed onsite. It is intended for a seasoned professional who can build a world-class treasury function, manage risk responsibly, and support rapid business growth.

Terms and conditions

Employment type: full-time. Location: Singapore, Singapore. No salary, stipend, vacancy count, joining date, or application deadline was specified in the source.