Senior Accountant, Corporate

As a Senior Accountant, Corporate at Paxos, you own a broad set of close areas across expenses and the corporate balance sheet. You book and support accruals, prepaids and share-based compensation, reconcile corporate cash and digital asset balances, and account for related party and intercompany activity. What sets this role apart is your work with digital assets: you trace transactions on-chain and through Paxos' platform, turn what you find into correct entries, and take over reconciliation processes that currently run on AI agents. You combine strong general accounting fundamentals with crypto-native expertise and reach for AI tools to work faster and automate what can be automated.

What you'll do

• Own expense accounting and month-end close tasks outside of revenue, including balance sheet reconciliations and P&L flux analysis
• Book and support bonus and other accruals, and maintain prepaid schedules and amortization
• Account for share-based compensation and support equity-related financial reporting
• Reconcile the corporate balance sheet: corporate bank accounts, platform cash held by Paxos entities, and digital asset and DeFi positions, tying the GL and subledger to bank, custodian and on-chain balances
• Review and trace transactions on-chain using block explorers such as Arkham, Etherscan and BscScan, follow activity from the chain through to Paxos' platform, and act as the go-to resource for the revenue accounting team when on-chain activity needs to be traced
• Book realized and unrealized gains and losses correctly, and maintain the rollforwards and support behind them
• Account for related party transactions, including AP and loans, and prepare intercompany elimination entries
• Take ownership of AI agents built with Claude, including the agent that pulls data directly from on-chain sources, and extend them when Paxos adds a new chain or a new type of activity
• Run the monthly Snowflake queries and Google Apps Scripts that feed the close, and use AI to update or troubleshoot them when needed
• Find manual steps in the close and automate them, with review controls in place
• Immerse yourself in blockchain technology, cryptocurrency for enterprises and investors, and Paxos' regulation-first approach
• For candidates with fewer than 4 years of relevant work experience, this is a hybrid role based in the New York City Midtown office, with in-office attendance required

What you bring

• 3+ years of accounting experience, ideally including public accounting or audit and time in-house
• Bachelor's degree in accounting; CPA (or equivalent) preferred, with strong working knowledge of US GAAP
• Experience owning close areas with minimal oversight: expense accruals, prepaids and amortization, balance sheet and bank reconciliations, and flux analysis
• Working knowledge of share-based compensation accounting (ASC 718) and related party transactions
• Crypto-native experience: hands-on review of transactions on-chain, with a working understanding of wallets and addresses, tokens, gas fees and stablecoin mint and burn; you can trace a transaction across multiple hops and explain what happened without being taught the basics
• A clear understanding of realized versus unrealized gains and losses, including when an unrealized gain or loss becomes realized and how to book each (for example, ASC 350-60 for in-scope crypto assets)
• Understanding of intercompany eliminations and consolidation; hands-on experience is a plus, but a strong conceptual grasp (for example, from audit) is enough
• AI-forward approach: you use tools like Claude in your daily work, and you are either eager to learn how to run and maintain AI agents or already building them
• Comfort running existing SQL queries in Snowflake and using AI to modify them; you don't need to be a SQL expert
• Advanced Excel and Google Sheets skills, and the ability to run and troubleshoot Google Apps Scripts, using AI to figure things out when needed
• Clear written and verbal communication, and comfort working with colleagues across APAC and European time zones

Nice to have

• Experience with DeFi activity (e.g., staking, lending, liquidity pools)
• Experience building AI agents or automated workflows used in a close
• Experience pulling in data for a new blockchain
• Experience using a digital asset subledger, NetSuite or an equity platform such as Carta
• Prior experience in crypto or financial services

About Paxos

Paxos is rebuilding financial infrastructure to open the world's financial system to everyone by enabling the instant movement of any asset, any time, in a trustworthy way. For over a decade, the company has built blockchain infrastructure that tokenizes, custodies, trades and settles assets for leading financial institutions including PayPal, Venmo, Mastercard, Interactive Brokers and Charles Schwab.