Chief Accounting Officer

Summary

Join Gemini, a leading global crypto and Web3 platform, as their Chief Accounting Officer. This crucial role will be central to Gemini's continued growth and scaling as a regulated digital asset exchange. You will lead all financial statement preparation, reporting, and compliance efforts, manage a high-performing global finance team, and advise on strategic partnerships. The position requires extensive experience in accounting, finance, and regulatory compliance within a financial services organization. Gemini offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, including a substantial salary, bonus, equity grant, comprehensive health plans, 401k matching, paid parental leave, and flexible time off.

Requirements

• An undergraduate degree in accounting, economics, finance or related field
• 20+ years of work experience in accounting
• CPA (or equivalent license)
• Proven experience gained within a relevant, regulated financial services organization and a strong understanding of relevant products and services, including current knowledge of their regulatory financial requirements
• Proven track record of leading Finance teams, managing performance, and improving knowledge/skills of team members
• Ability to learn quickly in a fast-paced and changing financial environment with the demonstrated capacity for excellent judgment, communication, and negotiation skills
• Outstanding interpersonal skills and relationship building abilities
• Experience with enhancing and scaling financial accounting software
• Has an understanding of GAAP and maintains industry related technical expertise
• Data-driven leadership skills with a multi-layered understanding of the economics and drivers for a growth-oriented business
• The ability to design the work processes, plans, KPIs, and incentive schemes for the team to deliver on department and company goals

Responsibilities

• Lead all financial statement preparation, presentation, and retention, along with financial planning and analysis, budget forecasting and re-forecasting
• Maintain all ledger reconciliations, capital computations, audit support, bookkeeping, and accounting due diligence
• Submit all required financial reporting deliverables to various regulators by prescribed deadlines
• Establish and maintain financial policies and procedures and internal business controls that ensure sustainable and profitable business growth as well as ability to comply with SEC requirements
• Manage, grow, and cultivate a high performing team of Global Financial Operations professionals across Accounting and AP/AR functions in the US, Dublin, and Singapore
• Manage key external relationships with audit professionals, consultants, and tax advisors
• Develop strategies for compliance with emerging accounting and tax rule changes and guidance from oversight bodies
• Advise on strategic client and equity partnerships with a focus on long-term deal analysis, forecasting, business planning, and critical risks
• Translate financial analysis into actionable insights for strategic planning, cash flow management, financing and Board meetings
• Assure timely and accurate financial closing processes including overall responsibility for completion of weekly and monthly closes, along with quarterly and annual audits
• Facilitate operational tax strategies and foreign currency exchange rate strategies
• Oversee outsourced financial activities to Gemini affiliates and any sub-outsourcing to other third party service providers, ensuring services are provided in accordance with the respective regulatory requirements and internal policies, processes and procedures and agreed service level agreements
• Evaluate and improve processes and systems to promote operational excellence
• Manage a team of Financial Operations professionals across Accounting functions

Preferred Qualifications

• An advanced graduate degree is a plus
• Big 4 accounting firm experience is a plus
• Previous Finance experience in a regulated industry preferably financial services will be advantageous. Highly value experience managing numerous competing regulatory reporting deliverables
• Experience with debt and equity financing, and M&A transactions would be a plus, to include managing the capital structures of a company in the fintech/crypto space (equity, debt, capital requirements, etc.)
• The ideal candidate will have a regulatory financial background but, in any event, he/she will possess a proven track record of successfully advising, influencing and representing an international company with complex regulatory, financial and legal matters

Benefits

• Competitive starting salary
• A discretionary annual bonus
• Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant
• Comprehensive health plans
• 401K with company matching
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible time off
• In the United States, we have a flexible hybrid work policy for employees who live within 30 miles of our office headquartered in New York City and our office in Seattle