Senior Accountant

Role Overview

Senior Accountant at Coinbase, remote-first position.

Company Overview

Coinbase is building the future of finance with a mission to increase economic freedom. The company operates with a high bar and intense environment, bringing teams together quarterly for in-person working sessions called "surges."

Role Purpose

Own critical accounting functions in monthly and quarterly close cycles while ensuring regulatory compliance, supporting new product launches, and driving process improvements through automation and technology.

Key Responsibilities

Monthly and Quarterly Close

• Own key activities in the monthly and quarterly close, including reconciliations, journal entries, balance-sheet analysis, reporting, and resolution of breaks or unusual activity.

Regulatory Reporting and Compliance

• 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.
• Identify accounting, reporting, regulatory, and operational risks early and drive issues to resolution.

Product and Business Support

• 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.

Operations and Improvement

• Identify and implement opportunities to automate and scale accounting operations through technology and process improvement.

Qualifications & Experience

• 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.
• Ability to understand end-to-end transaction flows and assess impacts across legal entities, systems, ledgers, and reporting outputs.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to operate independently across international time zones.
• Familiarity with derivatives, digital assets, OmniLedger/ABOR, NetSuite, SQL, or finance analytics tools is preferred.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Additional Information

• Annual base salary range: 410,000 AED–410,000 AED (excluding equity and bonus).
• Total compensation may include equity and bonus eligibility.
• Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
• Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• Reasonable accommodations available for individuals with disabilities upon request.