Senior Accountant

Responsibilities

• Own key activities in the monthly and quarterly close, including reconciliations, journal entries, balance-sheet analysis, reporting, and resolution of breaks or unusual activity.
• Support the preparation, review, and submission of VARA regulatory reporting, including data-quality checks, reconciliations, reporting controls, and audit trails.
• Support SOX controls, maintain process documentation and evidence, and support Internal Audit and external-audit requests and remediation.
• Partner with cross-functional teams on new product launches and business initiatives, ensuring accounting and regulatory readiness from inception.
• Review flow of funds, legal-entity impacts, posting rules, ledger and subledger design, reconciliations, testing, and launch readiness for new products.
• Identify and implement opportunities to automate and scale accounting operations through technology and process improvement.
• Identify accounting, reporting, regulatory, and operational risks early and drive issues to resolution.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; CPA, CA, ACCA, or equivalent qualification preferred.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in accounting, controllership, audit, financial services, fintech, capital markets, exchange, custody, clearing, or digital assets.
• Strong experience with monthly close, financial reporting, reconciliations, audit support, and internal controls.
• Experience with SOX, regulatory reporting, process documentation, control testing, or remediation; exposure to VARA is strongly preferred.
• Ability to understand end-to-end transaction flows and assess impacts across legal entities, systems, ledgers, and reporting outputs.
• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to operate independently across international time zones.
• Familiarity with derivatives, digital assets, OmniLedger/ABOR, NetSuite, SQL, or finance analytics tools is preferred.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

About the Company

Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. They are uncompromising on their mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, and the environment is intense. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called "surges."