Senior Accountant

As a Senior Accountant at Coinbase, you own key activities in the monthly and quarterly close and support regulatory reporting for a leading cryptocurrency exchange. You work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure accounting and regulatory readiness for new product launches, while identifying opportunities to automate and scale accounting operations.

What you'll do

• 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

What you bring

• A 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
• The 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
• The ability to use generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

Nice to have

• Familiarity with derivatives, digital assets, OmniLedger/ABOR, NetSuite, SQL, or finance analytics tools

What we offer

• Annual base salary of 410,000 AED, plus equity and bonus eligibility
• Benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Remote-first work model with quarterly in-person working sessions

About Coinbase

Coinbase is a leading cryptocurrency exchange committed to increasing economic freedom. The company operates a remote-first culture with an intense, high-performance environment.