Senior Accountant, Coinbase

About the job

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase .

What you’ll do:

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.

Execute and strengthen 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.

Required Skills and Experience:

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.