General Manager

**About us**:
BVNK is a next-generation payments platform for global businesses. We bridge the gap between traditional and digital finance to make payments borderless, instant, and secure. Using the BVNK platform, businesses can send and receive payments on all major schemes and blockchain networks, incorporate stablecoins into their payment flows, and settle funds in over 30 markets.

We are a diverse team spread across the UK, Europe, and South Africa, with a shared belief that in the next five years all payment flows will interact with crypto, and BVNK will be at the forefront of this shift. We recently raised 40m in series A funding, and we're looking for smart, ambitious people to help us build the next generation of payments.

**What you can expect from us**:

- Fair and **competitive salary** at every stage of your growth
- **Meaningful ownership** in the business through our employee option scheme
- **Flexible working** hours, with hybrid working at its heart
- A **culture** built on passionate growth minded people
- A **flexible approach to holiday**, with 25 days as standard
- Opportunities to travel to our **offices around the world**, in locations such as London and Cape Town, to collaborate with your colleagues
- An **open and creative environment** where you can help us define the future of BVNK, it's culture, and it's opportunity sets

**About the role**:
We pride ourselves on innovation, creativity and developing within a rapidly expanding industry. Our accelerated growth is driven by our successful product offerings which play an integral role in the adoption of crypto assets for a frictionless FX and cross border payments experience.

As our "boots on the ground" in APAC you will play a critical role in setting up our operation, building our local and regional teams and signing partners and clients in the region.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Business development to identify, source and onboard new regional liquidity partnerships - focus on regional Payment, FX and Crypto companies
- Working closely with our Banking team to source, onboard and unlock banking and fintech partnerships within the APAC region
- Business development to build referral channels for our B2B services within the APAC region (referral/partnerships setup with private bankers, law firms, property firms, wealth advisors etc)
- Setup of and operationalising new local entities plus assisting with local licensing where necessary (supported by our Legal & Regulatory teams) in APAC Sourcing local talent and building out teams to support these efforts
- Working closely with the other trading hubs and partnership teams to source and manage trading counterparty relationships in APAC
- Developing and implementing new risk management frameworks, processes, and best practices unique to the APAC markets
- Identifying & analyze strategic revenue opportunities across our core APAC markets
- Be actively involved with industry news, conferences, and events and thus being a credible ambassador for the business in all dealing with clients and partners

**Desired Skills And Experience**
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Economics, and/or related field
- 7-10 years' experience working for a regulated financial institution (bank, payments fintech or crypto asset business)
- Crypto Asset knowledge (personally or professionally) will be a distinct advantage
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills (English) with a strong analytical ability

**Personal Attributes**
- Analytical & numerical with the ability to work under pressure
- Ability to multitask while quickly processing and reacting to new information
- Ability to think conceptually while effectively executing day to day responsibilities
- High integrity and exceptional work ethic
- Phenomenal interpersonal communication skills; is confident, dynamic, and assertive
- Demonstrable ability to mentor, coach and develop people