Member of Prime Brokerage Accounting, Digital Assets

At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto.

Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the only federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital, and other offerings.

The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn. 

Anchorage Digital is looking for a highly motivated accounting professional to join our Prime Brokerage Accounting team. Reporting to the Prime Brokerage Accounting Lead, this individual will be responsible for preparing all assigned prime brokerage and digital asset related accounting and reporting deliverables. The role presents a unique and exciting opportunity to navigate the complexities of accounting for digital assets across a variety of business products and strategies.

We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Villagers better measure impact and articulate coaching, feedback, and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Prime Brokerage Accounting Team member role:

Technical Skills:

• Possess a strong understanding of US GAAP
• Apply advanced skills in Google Sheets to efficiently and reliably work with large data sets.
• Resolve a wide range of issues in creative ways, suggesting different potential approaches and adapting to new circumstances rapidly.

Complexity and Impact of Work:

• Month end accounting close responsibilities for brokerage related legal entities and all digital assets held, including preparing journal entries, account reconciliations, variance analysis, and FBO fiat and digital asset account reconciliations.
• Provide reporting deliverables/support for internal and external audits related to specific areas of responsibility.
• Create and maintain detailed documentation of core accounting processes
• Identify opportunities for improvements and efficiencies

Organizational Knowledge:

• Stay informed on industry pronouncements, emerging trends, and developments in accounting and reporting for digital assets, SEC regulations, and lending practices through regular participation in training opportunities.
• Perform special, ad-hoc projects in Accounting/Finance as requested

Communication and Influence

• Collaborate with product, brokerage operations, legal, engineering and FP&A teams to resolve outstanding items, account for new products and drive process improvements.
• Assist with internal and external audits to ensure accuracy and timeliness of financial reporting.

You may be a fit for this role if you have:

• 5+ years of related accounting experience, with a mix of Big 4 public accounting experience and/or in a fast paced startup/Fintech environment.
• Knowledge of blockchain technology and the crypto economy.
• Able to work well in a dynamic environment, implement process improvements, work autonomously and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Experience accounting for digital assets, prime brokerage services, digital asset borrowing/ lending, and/or derivatives.

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

• You can write SQL queries or build data integrations into Google Sheets/Excel.
• Experience working at a publicly traded company
• Working knowledge of Netsuite and Floqast
• Previous experience in a remote environment
• You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)

About Anchorage Digital: Who we are

The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in the evolving digital asset ecosystem. As a diverse team of more than 300 members, we are united in one common goal: building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy. 

Anchorage Digital is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported, and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.

Anchorage Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. Anchorage Digital considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with other legal requirements. “Anchorage Digital” refers to services that are offered either through Anchorage Digital Bank National Association, an OCC-chartered national trust bank, or Anchorage Lending CA, LLC a finance lender licensed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, License No. 60DBO-11976, or Anchorage Digital Singapore Pte Ltd, a Singapore private limited company, all wholly-owned subsidiaries of Anchor Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

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