Financial Controller

Overview

This role is for a Controller to lead accounting operations and implement institutional-grade financial frameworks for a company building a transparent, permissionless trading platform that connects traditional global markets with onchain liquidity. The organization enables anyone with a digital wallet to trade stocks, commodities, currencies, and crypto with full transparency, eliminating brokers, freezes, and hidden spreads.

The Controller will oversee month-end close, internal controls, onchain reconciliation infrastructure, and audit readiness, bridging traditional finance accounting with onchain protocol accounting. The financials must be rigorous, auditable, and closed on a cadence suitable for top-tier auditors and institutional investors.

Responsibilities

• Own monthly and quarterly consolidated close across all entities, integrating fiat and onchain activity into US GAAP financials on a predictable schedule.
• Value the protocol's collateral pool, open positions, and P&L; reconcile fee, funding, spread, and liquidation revenue.
• Perform daily reconciliation of onchain state to the books.
• Manage crypto treasury, stablecoin flows, wallet-level reconciliation, gas expenses, and protocol revenue with appropriate digital asset fair value treatment.
• Build and maintain reconciliation and control infrastructure leveraging AI and tooling to reconcile onchain data efficiently.
• Manage external auditors and drive audit readiness.
• Coordinate crypto and multi-entity tax compliance across jurisdictions.
• Support entity structuring.
• Manage treasury functions including cash and stablecoin balances, runway, and collateral movements.
• Deliver investor and board financial reporting.
• Oversee corporate accounting functions such as accounts payable, payroll, vendor management, and equity/token compensation accounting.

Requirements

• Active CPA license with deep US GAAP expertise and experience owning a full audit-ready close.
• Hands-on experience in both traditional finance (positions, NAV, brokerage, or fund accounting) and crypto/digital asset accounting.
• Experience at a broker-dealer, prime broker, hedge fund, fund administrator, or trading firm with responsibility for positions, margin, and mark-to-market accounting, plus hands-on crypto-native accounting including onchain reconciliation and DeFi protocol revenue.
• Ability to read block explorers, understand wallets and smart contract interactions, and reconcile directly against onchain data.
• Proficiency with core ERP systems (e.g., QuickBooks) and crypto subledgers.
• Proven ability to build or significantly rebuild finance functions in fast-moving, resource-constrained environments.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to escalating issues with proposed solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Multi-entity international accounting experience.
• Experience supporting VC-backed startup audits and fundraising.
• Deep expertise in crypto tax compliance.

Compensation & Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation package.
• Flexible work arrangements.

Location

• Remote / Full-Time

Candidates should be prepared to work across multiple time zones and collaborate with a distributed team.