Staking Operations Intern
Finoa is a regulated crypto-financial services platform providing custody, staking, and prime brokerage for digital assets. Catering to institutional investors, corporations, and high-net-worth individuals, Finoa offers a secure and compliant environment for managing and growing crypto-assets. The company is regulated by Germany's BaFin and serves a wide range of clients, including family offices, asset managers, and venture capital funds. Finoa Consensus Services, a part of the company, specializes in institutional-grade staking solutions.
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About Finoa
Finoa is a regulated digital asset platform founded in 2018, designed for institutional investors, corporations, and high-net-worth individuals. As a qualified crypto-asset custodian supervised by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), Finoa provides a secure and user-friendly environment for clients to manage, protect, and grow their digital assets. The company's core services include institutional-grade custody, in-custody staking for over 180 assets, and prime brokerage for integrated trading solutions with deep liquidity. Finoa serves a diverse client base, including family offices, asset managers, venture capital funds, and foundations, with a minimum investment position of €100,000. Additionally, Finoa Consensus Services offers specialized staking solutions like delegated staking and white-label nodes for various protocols, further supporting the crypto ecosystem.
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About the Role
You will support the staking operations team in running and growing our validator and staking infrastructure business. You will help track staking rewards, reconcile operational data across multiple blockchain networks, support reporting workflows, and maintain operational processes that keep the staking business running accurately and at scale. A key part of your role will involve using AI tools to reduce manual work and improve the accuracy and speed of operations workflows. You will help build lightweight automations, data pipelines, and reporting tools that make staking operations more scalable.
Requirements
- Basic understanding of crypto and blockchain, particularly Proof-of-Stake networks, validators, and staking mechanics
- Foundation in accounting, operations, or a related field, whether through studies, prior work experience, or personal projects
- Comfortable working with operational data, spreadsheets, and reconciliation tasks
- Excited by AI-native ways of working and eager to experiment with tools, prompts, workflows, and automation techniques
- Structured, detail-oriented, and takes data quality seriously
- Comfortable with ambiguity and able to prioritise effectively
- Clear communication skills and ability to summarise complex operational information
- Fluent in English; German is a plus
Responsibilities
- Monitor and reconcile staking rewards across multiple Proof-of-Stake networks
- Ensure data is accurate, complete, and reconciled against on-chain records
- Support monthly and quarterly operational close activities including reporting outputs
- Maintain and improve operational processes including validator management, reward tracking, and reporting
- Build AI and automation workflows to reduce manual data handling
- Build repeatable reporting workflows to improve speed and accuracy of operations tasks
- Run data and performance analysis on staking rewards, network performance, protocol economics, and operational metrics