Prime Brokerage Accounting Lead
Anchorage Digital
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See open jobs at Anchorage Digital.See open jobs similar to "Prime Brokerage Accounting Lead" Blockchain Association.Technical Skills:
- Demonstrate expertise in US GAAP with a focus on ASC 606, ensuring accurate application to revenue recognition for prime brokerage services.
- Established expertise in designing, implementing, and continuously improving daily and month-end prime brokerage accounting practices, ensuring full compliance with GAAP and industry best practices.
- Proven ability to account for complex matrix organizational structures and intercompany transactions.
Complexity and Impact of Work:
- Lead the accounting team through the intricacies of accounting related to digital asset prime brokerage activities and products, ensuring alignment with customer contracts as well as evolving regulatory and industry best practices.
- Drive the development of scalable and automated financial processes and controls, leveraging your technical expertise to design and implement internal end-to-end trading system reporting, as well as integration of external software tools, as needed.
- Oversee month end accounting close responsibilities for brokerage related legal entities, including reviewing journal entries, account reconciliations, variance analysis, and FBO fiat and digital asset account reconciliations.
- Provide support for internal and external audits related to specific areas of responsibility.
Organizational Knowledge:
- Cultivate effective cross-functional communication with the brokerage, legal, operations, and technical accounting teams to ensure comprehensive documentation and understanding of transactions and their appropriate accounting treatment.
- Stay informed and socialize with the broader organization on industry pronouncements, emerging trends, and developments in accounting and reporting for digital assets, SEC regulations, and lending practices.
Communication and Influence:
- Leverage accounting expertise to provide guidance and requirements to product, brokerage operations, legal, and engineering teams in designing and implementing new products that meet financial reporting and compliance requirements.
- Assist with internal and external audits to ensure accuracy and timeliness of financial reporting.
You may be a fit for this role if you have:
- 8+ years of related accounting experience, with a mix of Big 4 public accounting experience, broker-dealer, trading firm and/or in a fast-paced startup/Fintech environment.
- Working knowledge of ASC 606 and US GAAP.
- In-depth understanding of agency and principal trading, derivatives, options, perpetual futures, and margin lending.
- An interest in accounting for digital assets and evolving markets.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills and an ability to drive cross-functional projects.
- A track record of driving strong financial performance and accountability.
Although not a requirement, bonus points if:
- Knowledge of blockchain technology and the crypto economy.
- You have worked at or with investment advisors or institutional investment funds.
- You can write Python scripts, SQL queries or build data integrations into Google Sheets/Excel.
- You have SOX compliance experience.
- Experience working in NetSuite and G-suite.
- Experience accounting for digital asset prime brokerage services.
- You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)
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