Senior Accountant, Financial Operations

As a Senior Accountant in Financial Operations at Solana Foundation, you own the day-to-day accounting machinery across the Foundation and its wholly owned US subsidiary, SF Operations Inc. Reporting directly to the Controller, you manage how bills get paid, how cash comes in, how spend is controlled, and how all of it lands accurately in the ledger across two entities and two accounting standards. The first six months focus on systems work: onboarding a new expense management and bill pay platform, integrating an agentic procurement system, and automating accounts receivable. From there, the role expands across the wider function, with you designing process architecture rather than inheriting it.

What you'll do

• Own Procure-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash end to end, running AP and AR as processes. Find bottlenecks, propose fixes, and implement them. Take responsibility for cycle times, accuracy, and the vendor and customer experience on both sides of the ledger.
• Build the finance tech stack alongside the Controller: lead the onboarding of a new expense management and bill pay platform, integrate agentic procurement, and automate AR. Evaluate what should be a tool, what should be an automation, and what still needs a human. Own implementations through to adoption.
• Control company spend by managing corporate cards and the expense programme, reviewing employee and company spending, and making policy real through process rather than reminders.
• Keep the general ledger clean across both entities, ensuring all financial information is accurately reflected in the GL in compliance with the appropriate GAAP standards for the Swiss and US based entities.
• Own reconciliations on-chain and off-chain: prepare and lead balance sheet and asset reconciliations, including bank transactions and on-chain wallet activity.
• Report the numbers: prepare and support month-end close, financial reporting, budget versus actual, and ad hoc analysis for the Finance team and the wider business.
• Close control gaps before they cost something: monitor processes, procedures, and controls for record-keeping accuracy, and proactively identify weaknesses and build controls around them.

What you bring

• A mix of public accounting firm experience and relevant industry experience, with 3-5 years across public accounting and in-house accounting, financial management, and financial reporting.
• A Certified Public Accountant (CPA) credential.
• Hands-on experience with Xero or a comparable platform such as QuickBooks.
• Comfort in Airtable and other automation-friendly databases, and experience building tool integrations yourself.
• Familiarity with blockchain and the digital asset space, and comfort reconciling wallet activity alongside bank statements.
• Experience working in a fast-moving start-up or at a company that scaled quickly, with the ability to hold accuracy steady while everything around it changes.
• Strong problem-solving instincts and attention to detail that catches the thing nobody was looking for.
• Nimbleness with AI and agentic systems in an evolving accounting tech stack, and the ability to lead a tooling project rather than wait for one to be handed to you.

Nice to have

• FinTech experience.
• Blockchain industry experience.

About Solana Foundation

The Solana Foundation is a non-profit based in Zug, Switzerland, dedicated to the adoption, decentralization, and security of the Solana network. Solana is a high-performance blockchain delivering fast and user-friendly experience without sacrificing security.