Principal, Technical Accounting

Summary

Join Gemini, a leading global crypto and Web3 platform, as a Principal, Technical Accounting. This crucial role will center on ensuring the proper application of U.S. GAAP across the organization. You will lead technical accounting research, policy development, and the review of significant transactions. The position requires collaboration with various teams, regulatory reporting support, and maintaining the controls framework. This is a high-impact role within a rapidly growing company, offering a competitive compensation and benefits package.

Requirements

• An undergraduate degree in accounting, finance or related field
• 8-10+ years of Big 4 public accounting (national office, or SEC services is a plus) and industry experience
• CPA (or equivalent license)
• Willingness and commitment to learn and go deep; crypto experience is a plus but not required
• Ability to learn quickly in a fast-paced and changing financial environment with the demonstrated capacity for excellent judgment and communication skills
• Outstanding interpersonal skills and relationship building abilities
• 3 or more years of prior experience managing teams and owning their work product
• Hard-working, disciplined, detail-oriented, and able to motivate engagement teams
• Experience writing complex technical accounting position papers
• Aptitude for technical accounting research and self-education, desire to learn and be an expert

Responsibilities

• Serve as the go-to expert on U.S. GAAP, ensuring proper application of accounting standards across the organization
• Lead the technical accounting research and implementation of complex accounting topics to determine the potential impact to the Company. This includes stock-based compensation (ASC 718), debt/equity financing transactions (ASC 470, ASC 480), and business combinations (ASC 805)
• Lead accounting policy development, ensuring adherence to best practices and industry standards
• Oversee the preparation and review of technical accounting memos and whitepapers for significant transactions
• Partner with Finance and other teams to assess the financial statement impact of key business decisions
• Support regulatory reporting and compliance, including drafting regulatory documents, preparation of footnotes, disclosures, and accounting policies
• Stay up-to-date on evolving accounting regulations, particularly around cryptocurrency, assessing potential impacts on the organization
• Maintain the controls framework to ensure accounting and financial reporting process risks have been identified, assessed and documented in accordance with SOX requirements
• Collaborate cross functionally with key stakeholders and provide technical accounting guidance on new business initiatives
• Provide training to accounting department team members related to new accounting policies and standards

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous Finance experience in a regulated industry preferably financial services will be advantageous. We highly value experience managing numerous competing deliverables
• Experience with debt and equity financing, and M&A transactions would be a plus
• Passion for the crypto industry with a strong interest in technical accounting
• Knowledge of IFRS or other international accounting standards a plus
• Experience with financial accounting software (SAGE, Workiva, NetSuite, etc.)

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. Employees within the New York and Seattle metropolitan areas are expected to work from the designated office twice a week, unless there is a job-specific requirement to be in the office every workday. Employees outside of these areas are considered part of our remote-first workforce