Treasury Operations Associate

Lithic is the modern card issuing and processing platform empowering ambitious financial companies to build the future of payments. Our infrastructure powers card programs for 100+ innovative clients, from fintechs reimagining credit and digital banking to platforms transforming disbursements and spend management. Companies like Mercury, Flex, and Novo rely on Lithic's developer-friendly APIs, direct network connections, and flawless reconciliation to launch and scale card programs in weeks, not years. We're building a future where access to better financial products materially improves people's lives, free from the constraints of 30-year-old mainframes and legacy processors. We're proud to be backed by world-class investors who share that vision, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Stripes, and Mastercard, along with many others. We're a team of 170+ across 26 states and 7 countries, headquartered in New York City. Lithic's Treasury Operations team owns the movement of money across our card issuing infrastructure — network settlement, sponsor bank transfers, and the reconciliation that keeps it all provable. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role for someone who wants to learn the inner workings of payments and fintech infrastructure, not just observe them from a reporting layer. You'll be running a critical, time-sensitive engine every day — and at the same time, working alongside the Head of Treasury Operations to improve how that engine works as the function scales. You’ll also work cross-functionally across a wide range of teams (Finance, Treasury Engineering, Risk, Analytics, Processing, Customer Success, Bank Operations) — this role sits at the center of a lot of different workflows, not off in a silo. What you'll do: Execution (50%) Own day-to-day execution of network settlement transfers (Mastercard, Visa) and related treasury transfers across sponsor banks Operate in a time-sensitive environment where errors or delays have immediate downstream consequences Support reconciliation and ensure transfers tie out against expected activity Be a reliable, detail-oriented operator of an existing process — accuracy and consistency matter as much as speed Process Optimization (20%) Take existing workflows and make them better: fewer manual steps, stronger controls, cleaner audit trails Identify friction or risk in current processes and propose (and build) improvements Balance improvement work against the need for strong financial controls — nothing gets streamlined at the expense of auditability Project Support (30%) Support the Head of Treasury Operations on larger initiatives as the function scales Contribute analysis, documentation, and execution support to new treasury infrastructure, reporting, or process builds Ongoing Run ad hoc data analysis (SQL, Excel) to answer operational and financial questions on the fly Support downstream audit and reporting needs tied to…