Lead European Institutions and French Public Affairs

Bitstack

ABOUT BITSTACK It all started with an idea in 2021. Initially built to democratize Bitcoin in France, Bitstack has gone from a simple product that invests spare change in bitcoin, to a crypto-native bank bringing a better way to save, spend, and grow money to our 300K+ users. We want to rebuild finance from the ground up to empower people to achieve financial freedom by participating in a more open and inclusive financial system. We’re a small, ambitious team of operators. We believe in moving fast, sweating the details, and creating products people truly love. At Bitstack, you’ll have the opportunity to shape not just our products, but the culture and practices of our entire organization. Bitstack is backed by YC, leading VCs like 13books Capital, Stillmark, Serena, and many more. We are building a product our users love and we are just getting started! THE ROLE Bitstack is hiring a Financial Controller & Accounting Manager to join its finance team at a defining moment for the company. Bitstack is moving from a single-product offering to a multi-product platform, expanding its commercial footprint across European markets through the French entity, and enhancing the regulatory licences that underpin the business. The finance function sits at the centre of that evolution. The Financial Controller & Accounting Manager will be central to preparing the company for its first external audit (on 2026 numbers, conducted in 2027) and for the Series B raise (late 2026 / Q1 2027). The role will own French statutory accounting, lead the relationships with the company's external accounting firm and tax advisor, design and implement revenue recognition for the new subscription and card interchange streams, and build the accounting, controls, and tax foundations on which the next stage of growth will be built. This is a hands-on, autonomous role with direct exposure to the Chief Financial Officer, the leadership team, and the co-founders. The successful candidate will make and own consequential decisions from the outset. WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING * Lead French statutory accounting and own monthly and annual closes, transitioning the company from an annual to a monthly close cadence. * Manage the relationship with the external accounting firm and, from 2027, the appointed statutory auditor. * Lead the company's tax compliance across direct and indirect taxes — corporate income tax, VAT (including reverse-charge on non-EU services), and other applicable taxes — in close coordination with our specialist tax advisor. * Design and own the company's accounting policies, including revenue recognition for subscription and card interchange revenue streams, accruals, intercompany transactions, FX treatment, and other technical positions as they emerge. * Build and own the bad debt provisioning and collections framework for the new subscription business, in coordination with Product, Engineering, and Customer Service. * Build and maintain reconciliation workflows between Cryptio (crypto sub-ledger), the subscription billing platform, the Banking-as-a-Service provider, and Pennylane (core accounting platform). * Lead audit readiness preparation, including documentation, internal controls design, and audit trail integrity across the company's accounting systems. * Drive automation and AI adoption across the finance function — building workflows, leveraging AI for analysis and reporting, and using data and tooling as a core source of leverage. * Contribute to the broader finance systems roadmap, including the selection and implementation of close-management software and finance productivity tools. * Partner with the Data Lead to ensure finance data needs are met in the company's data warehouse. TECH STACK * Core accounting: Pennylane * Crypto sub-ledger: Cryptio * Treasury: Agicap * Procurement / SaaS contracts: Vertice * Close management: Numeric, FloQast, or equivalent (to be selected and implemented) * Analytics: Internal data warehouse, Metabase * Productivity: Google Workspace, Slack, Notion, Claude, ChatGPT WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR * 6+ years of relevant professional experience, with a career path starting in audit at a top-tier firm (Big Four or equivalent), followed by industry experience as a Financial Controller, Accounting Manager, or Senior Accountant. * Demonstrated experience managing external accounting partners and statutory auditors is essential. You should be able to describe specific examples of leading external relationships through close cycles, audits, or regulatory engagements. * Strong knowledge of French statutory accounting (Plan Comptable Général). Familiarity with IFRS is a plus. * Hands-on experience with modern accounting platforms or ERP systems (Pennylane, NetSuite, Sage Intacct, or similar). Familiarity with crypto sub-ledger tools (Cryptio, Bitwave, Lukka, or similar) is highly valued. * Sector experience in crypto or fintech is highly valued. Experience in other B2C platforms (digital media, e-commerce, marketplace, consumer subscription) is also useful. Direct experience with regulated financial products (e-money, Banking-as-a-Service, payments) is a strong plus. * Languages: native French, professional working proficiency in English. * Strong technology and data fluency. Comfortable working with data tools (SQL or equivalent), light scripting (Python, JavaScript, or similar), AI productivity tools, and automation platforms. Sees technology as a core source of leverage for the finance function, not as a complement to the role. * Holistic perspective and strong business judgment. Able to connect accounting, tax, and controls topics to broader business decisions, well beyond technical compliance. * High autonomy and ownership mindset. Comfortable making decisions and driving outcomes with limited supervision, in a fast-moving environment. * Strong communicator. Able to engage credibly with external partners (accountants, auditors, tax advisors, regulators), challenge constructively, and translate technical topics for non-finance audiences. * Growth mindset. Curious, open to learning, and energised by an evolving scope as the company scales. INTERVIEW PROCESS 1. Introductory call our People Specialist — 30 minutes. Role fit, background, motivations, and process overview. 2. Interview with our CFO — 60 minutes. Role scope, technical experience, and strategic perspective. 3. Interview with our Finance Manager — 30 to 45 minutes. Day-to-day collaboration, operational experience, and team fit. 4. Business case interview with the CFO and Finance Manager — 60 minutes. An applied exercise on a topic relevant to the role (e.g. revenue recognition design, close transition, audit readiness). PERKS & BENEFITS 🌎 Work from our office in Paris (Bourse) or Remote 🕑 Flexible working hours 👩‍⚕️ One of the best health insurance plans with 100% employer contributions 🏄 Monthly team activities and annual offsites 🍉 Swile meal vouchers 🤑 Competitive salary based on experience & Bitstack stock options DIVERSITY & INCLUSION We hire talented and passionate people from all kinds of backgrounds, we don’t care about your age or where you studied. If you’re excited about the role but your past experience doesn’t match every bullet point in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. What matters most is that you’re a builder at heart, you share our values, and you’re enthusiastic about our mission. #LI-TT1

Bitstack

ABOUT BITSTACK It all started with an idea in 2021. Initially built to democratize Bitcoin in France, Bitstack has gone from a simple product that invests spare change in bitcoin, to a crypto-native bank bringing a better way to save, spend, and grow money to our 300K+ users. We want to rebuild finance from the ground up to empower people to achieve financial freedom by participating in a more open and inclusive financial system. We’re a small, ambitious team of operators. We believe in moving fast, sweating the details, and creating products people truly love. At Bitstack, you’ll have the opportunity to shape not just our products, but the culture and practices of our entire organization. Bitstack is backed by YC, leading VCs like 13books Capital, Stillmark, Serena, and many more. We are building a product our users love and we are just getting started! THE ROLE Bitstack is hiring a Head of Risk & Compliance to lead its risk and compliance function at a defining moment for the company. Bitstack is moving from a single-product offering to a multi-product platform, expanding across European markets, and transitioning from PSAN to PSCA (MiCA) registration. The compliance function sits at the centre of that evolution. The Head of Risk & Compliance will own Bitstack's AML-CFT framework, regulatory positioning, and compliance operations end-to-end. This is a strategic and hands-on role with direct exposure to the co-founders and leadership team, and significant scope to shape how the function scales. WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING REGULATORY & GOVERNANCE LEADERSHIP * Lead Bitstack's regulatory compliance strategy across MiCA/CASP, payments, and EMI activities. * Build, manage, and continuously improve scalable governance, escalation, and internal control frameworks across entities and products. * Primary point of contact with the AMF and ACPR, ensuring timely response to all regulatory obligations and requests, while securing, maintaining, and scaling Bitstack's regulatory licences across EU markets. * Oversee regulatory audits, inspections, independent controls, and remediation plans. * Support and monitor regulatory developments across MiCA, AML/CFT, PSD2, EMI, payments, stablecoins, and digital assets, and translate them into operational actions. * Act as the primary TRACFIN correspondent and declarant, taking full ownership of suspicious activity reporting, enhanced due diligence processes, sanctions governance, high-risk customer management frameworks, and all related regulatory reporting obligations. RISK & COMPLIANCE OPERATIONS * Manage all operational AML and fraud compliance frameworks ( including KYC/KYB, EDD, PEP, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, fraud escalation, adverse media reviews) * Ensure compliance operations scale effectively as Bitstack expands across products and markets. * Drive operational excellence across compliance workflows, tooling, SLAs, and remediation processes. * Build dashboards, KPIs/KRIs, reporting, and governance processes to improve visibility and control. * Strengthen Bitstack's internal control framework and operational risk management capabilities. * Oversee third-party compliance providers, outsourced controls, and operational risk related to external partners and regulated service providers. PRODUCT & BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP * Work closely with Product, Engineering, Design, Operations, and Customer Care to embed compliance into product development from day one. * Translate complex regulatory requirements into pragmatic product and operational decisions. * Act as a business partner to leadership teams while maintaining strong regulatory rigor. * Support the launch of new products, markets, partnerships, and regulated activities. LEADERSHIP & TEAM BUILDING * Scale and develop the Risk & Compliance organization as Bitstack grows. * Recruit, mentor, and structure high-performing compliance, risk, and internal control teams. * Build a culture of ownership, operational rigor, transparency, and sound risk management. * Lead company-wide compliance training, awareness, and risk culture initiatives. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR * 6+ years of experience in compliance, including significant senior-level exposure with management responsibilities, ideally within fintech, e-money, or digital assets. * Strong working knowledge of AML/CFT, KYC/KYB, PSD2, EMI regulation, and MiCA/DASP frameworks; AMF certification (or equivalent) and ACAMS certification are a plus. * Demonstrated experience managing regulatory examinations, independent audits, and external compliance relationships. * Experience building or scaling compliance functions in a fast-moving environment - comfortable with ambiguity and high ownership. * Strong product instinct - able to engage credibly with Engineering and Product teams and translate regulatory requirements into practical product decisions. * Languages: fluent in French, professional working proficiency in English. INTERVIEW PROCESS 1. Introductory Call (30 min) An initial conversation with our People Lead to get to know you better, share more details about the role, and give you an overview of the process. 2. Business Case Interview with the CEO (60 min) An applied exercise on a topic relevant to the role — such as MiCA transition planning, an AML framework review, or a product compliance challenge — to assess your technical depth and practical judgment. 3. Interview with the Risk & Compliance Team (60 min) A deeper conversation with your future teammates covering day-to-day collaboration, technical experience, and team fit. 4. Behavioural Interview with the Leadership team (60 min) A conversation centred on your experiences, decision-making, and collaboration style. We'll discuss real-world scenarios to understand how you navigate complex compliance challenges, stakeholder dynamics, and cross-functional work. PERKS & BENEFITS 🌎 Work from our office in Paris (Bourse) or Remote 🕑 Flexible working hours 👩‍⚕️ One of the best health insurance plans with 100% employer contributions 🏄 Monthly team activities and annual offsites 🍉 Swile meal vouchers 🤑 Competitive salary based on experience & generous Bitstack stock options DIVERSITY & INCLUSION We hire talented and passionate people from all kinds of backgrounds, we don’t care about your age or where you studied. If you’re excited about the role but your past experience doesn’t match every bullet point in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. What matters most is that you’re a builder at heart, you share our values, and you’re enthusiastic about our mission. #LI-TT1

Bitstack

ABOUT BITSTACK It all started with an idea in 2021. Initially built to democratize Bitcoin in France, Bitstack has gone from a simple product that invests spare change in bitcoin, to a crypto-native bank bringing a better way to save, spend, and grow money to our 300K+ users. We want to rebuild finance from the ground up to empower people to achieve financial freedom by participating in a more open and inclusive financial system. We’re a small, ambitious team of operators. We believe in moving fast, sweating the details, and creating products people truly love. At Bitstack, you’ll have the opportunity to shape not just our products, but the culture and practices of our entire organization. Bitstack is backed by YC, leading VCs like 13books Capital, Stillmark, Serena, and many more. We are building a product our users love and we are just getting started! The Role Growth at Bitstack is not a marketing function. It’s one of the company’s core operating systems. As VP Growth, you’ll be responsible for building and leading our entire growth engine — from acquisition to activation, retention, referrals, monetization, and international expansion. You’ll work directly with the CEO, Product, Engineering, Design, Data, and Marketing to turn Bitstack into one of Europe’s fastest-growing consumer financial products. This is an executive leadership role with company-wide impact. What You'll Own Build the growth engine * Define Bitstack’s long-term growth strategy. * Build scalable acquisition, activation, retention and monetization systems. * Drive sustainable growth while improving LTV/CAC and unit economics. * Establish experimentation as a core capability across the company. Product-led growth * Partner closely with Product and Engineering to build growth directly into the product. * Improve onboarding, referrals, lifecycle journeys, pricing, engagement and retention. * Build growth loops that compound over time. Customer acquisition * Scale paid acquisition across Europe. * Build SEO, ASO, influencer, partnerships, affiliates and referral channels. * Continuously discover and validate new growth opportunities. International expansion * Lead go-to-market strategies across Europe. * Develop repeatable playbooks for launching and scaling new markets. * Work closely with local market leaders to accelerate adoption. Marketing * Brand * Communications * Content * Social Media * Product Marketing Build an exceptional team Recruit and develop world-class leaders across Growth and Marketing while fostering a culture of ownership, speed, experimentation and high standards. What Success Looks Like Over the coming years, you’ll help Bitstack: * Grow from hundreds of thousands to millions of users. * Successfully scale across multiple European markets. * Build one of Europe’s best growth organizations. * Establish Bitstack as a category-defining consumer fintech. Who You Are We’re looking for an exceptional operator who has already helped build a leading consumer technology company. Ideally, you’ve: * Scaled a consumer product from hundreds of thousands to millions of users. * Built and led high-performing Growth organizations. * Owned growth across acquisition, activation, retention and monetization — not just marketing. * Worked closely with Product, Engineering and Data. * Led international expansion. * Managed significant marketing and growth budgets. * Recruited exceptional leaders and built high-performance teams. * Experience in fintech is a strong plus. * Experience in crypto is not required. You’ll Thrive Here If... * You think in systems, not channels. * You obsess over customers and product. * You’re deeply analytical but highly pragmatic. * You move quickly and enjoy operating in ambiguity. * You challenge assumptions and raise the bar. * You’re excited by building, not maintaining.   Interview Process 1. Introductory Call (45 min) — An initial conversation with our People Lead to get to know you better, share more details about the role, and give you an overview of the process. 2. Conversation with the CEO (60 min) — A conversation covering topics relevant to the role, such as your approach to building a market, partnerships, and go-to-market strategy, to understand your thinking and judgment. 3. Interview with the Marketing Team (60 min) — A deeper conversation with your future collaborators covering day-to-day collaboration, experience, and team fit. 4. Leadership Interview with the CTO & CFO (60 min) — A conversation centred on your experiences, decision-making, and ownership mindset, and how you'll work cross-functionally with the wider leadership team. 5. Office Visit — A visit to meet the leadership team and the Marketing team in person. Perks & Benefits 🌎 Work from our office in Paris (Bourse) or Remote 🕑 Flexible working hours 👩‍⚕️ One of the best health insurance plans with 100% employer contributions 🏄 Monthly team activities and annual offsites 🍉 Swile meal vouchers 🤑 Competitive salary based on experience & Bitstack stock options DIVERSITY & INCLUSION We hire talented and passionate people from all kinds of backgrounds, we don’t care about your age or where you studied. If you’re excited about the role but your past experience doesn’t match every bullet point in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. What matters most is that you’re a builder at heart, you share our values, and you’re enthusiastic about our mission. #LI-TT1