Senior Accountant

Director, CPA Assistant Controller

Ready to make a real impact at the forefront of digital assets? As a Senior Accountant you'll work with the Accounting Manager to orchestrate our daily accounting functions and be instrumental in ensuring a flawless month-end and year-end closes. You’ll partner closely with FP&A and SEC Reporting teams on vital financial initiatives to ensure our company continuously meets the evolving cryptocurrency accounting standards and regulations.

This is an exciting opportunity at the forefront of cryptocurrency regulations, tax laws, and accounting standards. If you're a proactive, detail-oriented, analytical leader with a knack for navigating complex financial landscapes in a dynamic environment, we’d love to hear from you!

• Own and review the month-end and year-end close processes, including journal entries, reconciliations, and variance analysis.
• Reconcile cryptocurrency wallets, exchanges, and blockchain transactions to ensure accurate financial reporting.
• Assist in the development and implementation of accounting policies and procedures tailored to the cryptocurrency industry.
• Collaborate with the SEC Reporting team in preparing and reviewing financial statements, including balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements, ensuring compliance with all applicable accounting principles, frameworks, and cryptocurrency-specific standards.
• Support the SEC Reporting team with external audits by preparing documentation and responding to auditor inquiries.
• Monitor and analyze financial data to identify trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement.
• Stay updated on evolving cryptocurrency regulations, tax laws, and accounting standards.
• Assist in the implementation and optimization of accounting software and blockchain-based financial tools.
• Coordinate with FP&A team in preparation of budgets, forecasts, and financial planning activities.
• Lead initiatives to automate balance sheet reconciliations, enhancing the accuracy, efficiency, and consistency of the month-end close process.
• Drive continuous process improvement by identifying and implementing automation and workflow enhancements across accounting operations.
• Manage ongoing efforts to streamline and optimize the month-end close process, improving efficiency while strengthening internal controls.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; CPA or equivalent certification is preferred
• 3+ years of public and private accounting experience in Financial Services, FinTech, and/or Digital Assets industries
• Strong knowledge of IFRS accounting principles; experience with digital assets accounting practices is highly preferred.
• Experience with accounting software and familiarity with blockchain-based financial tools.
• Exceptional organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment and adapt to evolving industry regulations.
• Basic understanding of cryptocurrency, blockchain technology, and digital asset management is highly desirable.

In an effort to attract, retain, develop and promote the most qualified individuals, CoinDesk is committed to treating all applicants and employees in a nondiscriminatory manner with respect to the terms and conditions of employment, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status/service, physical or mental disability, or any other classification protected by applicable law. This mandate governs all aspects of employment, including recruitment, selection, promotion, training, education, social and recreation programs, compensation, discipline, termination and access to benefits.

CoinDesk is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the application process, please send an e-mail to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) and let us know the nature of your request.