Senior Accountant
About the role
Senior Accountant at Coinbase (Remote - UAE) focused on monthly/quarterly close, regulatory reporting, SOX controls, cross-functional collaboration for product launches, and process improvements in accounting operations.
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.
- 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.
Qualifications
- 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.
Skills
About Coinbase
Buy, sell, and manage cryptocurrencies.
Founded in June of 2012, Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin. Our vision is to bring more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity to the world by building an open financial system. Our first step on that journey is making digital currency accessible and approachable for everyone. Two principles guide our efforts. First, be the most trusted company in our domain. Second, create user-focused products that are easier and more intuitive to use.
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