Summary

The Department: Controllership

The Role: Manager, Accounting

Gemini is looking to hire a dynamic accounting manager responsible for day-to-day accounting operations, ensuring accurate financial reporting and maintaining compliance with GAAP and internal policies. This is a unique role with a broad remit across technical accounting, multiple locations, and day-to-day GL operations. You’ll be joining a rapidly growing and high-quality, established digital asset exchange that is regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services and others globally. This appointment will be central to our continued scaling as an organization and efforts to increase transparency and public company readiness. This role will report directly to the Controller and be involved in key / high priority growth projects impacting the Finance department as well as the overall organization.

This role is required to be in person twice a week at either our Seattle, WA, New York City, NY, or Miami, FL office.

Responsibilities:

1. Manage month-end, quarter-end and year-end close processes, including journal entries and reconciliations
2. Work with the business and regulatory teams to ensure the accounting for derivatives and other bespoke products is in line with contracts and related requirements
3. Analyze fluctuations and trends in financial statement line items and provide insightful commentary
4. Document and implement accounting policies in-line with the latest GAAP and SEC Reg S-X requirements for use by team members around the globe
5. Support general automation and general ledger upgrade efforts taking into consideration multiple stakeholder needs
6. Partner cross-functionally with FP&A, Tax, Legal, and Operations teams to support business initiatives and ensure proper accounting treatment
7. Support the preparation of audit schedules and coordinate with external auditors for annual financial statement audits 
8. Support external relationships with audit professionals, consultants, and tax advisors, inclusive of networking and building contingency plans for possible future transactions and related accounting permutations
9. Support strategic client and equity partnerships with a focus on long-term sustainability and efficiency for accounting operations
10. Assist in implementing new accounting standards and system improvements 
11. Lead or support special projects as needed

Minimum Qualifications:

1. An undergraduate degree in accounting, economics, finance or related field
2. 6+ years work experience in accounting
3. CPA (or equivalent license)
4. Experience working in an accounting function within a large enterprise general ledger (Sage Intacct, Netsuite, etc.)
5. Willingness and commitment to learn and go deep
6. Previous Finance experience in a regulated industry, preferably in financial services. We highly value experience managing numerous competing deliverables
7. An understanding of consolidation accounting
8. Proven track record of meeting deadlines and ownership of complex areas
9. Ability to learn quickly in a fast-paced and changing financial environment with the demonstrated capacity for excellent judgment, communication, and negotiation skills
10. Outstanding interpersonal skills and relationship building abilities

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Big 4 accounting firm experience
2. Crypto experience
3. Experience with enhancing and scaling financial accounting software

Salary Range: The base salary range for this role is between $112,000 - $160,000 in the State of New York, the State of California and the State of Washington. This range is not inclusive of our discretionary bonus or equity package. When determining a candidate’s compensation, we consider a number of factors including skillset, experience, job scope, and current market data.

Skills

• Accounting
• Business Relation
• Community Moderator
• Team Collaboration