Director - Financial Controller

May 7

🏡 Remote – New York

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Gemini

Gemini is a next generation cryptocurrency platform that allows customers to buy, sell, store and earn crypto.

501 - 1000

Description

• Lead all general ledger operations, financial statement analysis, review, and related presentation to stakeholders. • Maintain all ledger reconciliations, capital computations, audit support, bookkeeping, and accounting due diligence. • Act as a point person, owning the submission of all required financial reporting deliverables to various regulators by prescribed deadlines. • Establish and maintain financial policies and procedures and internal business controls that ensure sustainable and profitable business growth. • Manage a team of Global Financial Operations professionals across Accounting and AP/AR functions located globally. • Manage key external relationships with audit professionals, consultants, and tax advisors. • Develop strategies for compliance with emerging accounting and tax rule changes and guidance from oversight bodies. • Advise on strategic client and equity partnerships with a focus on long-term deal analysis, forecasting, business planning, and critical risks. • Translate financial analysis into actionable insights for strategic planning, cash flow management, financing and Board meetings. • Assure timely and accurate financial closing processes including overall responsibility for completion of weekly and monthly closes, along with quarterly and annual audits. • Facilitate operational tax strategies and foreign currency exchange rate strategies. • Oversee outsourced financial activities to Gemini affiliates and any sub-outsourcing to other third party service providers, ensuring services are provided in accordance with the respective regulatory requirements and internal policies, processes and procedures and agreed service level agreements. • Evaluate and improve processes and systems to promote operational excellence. • Manage a team of Financial Operations professionals across Accounting functions.

Requirements

• An undergraduate degree in accounting, economics, finance or related field. • 10-15+ years work experience in accounting. Big 4 accounting firm experience is a plus. • CPA (or equivalent license). • Previous Finance experience in a regulated industry preferably financial services will be advantageous. Highly value experience managing numerous competing regulatory reporting deliverables. • Proven experience gained within a relevant, regulated financial services organization and a strong understanding of relevant products and services, including current knowledge of their regulatory financial requirements. • Proven track record of leading Finance teams, managing performance, and improving knowledge/skills of team members. • Ability to learn quickly in a fast-paced and changing financial environment with the demonstrated capacity for excellent judgment, communication, and negotiation skills. • Outstanding interpersonal skills and relationship building abilities. • Experience with enhancing and scaling financial accounting software. • Has an understanding of GAAP and maintains industry related technical expertise. • Data-driven leadership skills with a multi-layered understanding of the economics and drivers for a growth-oriented business. • The ability to design the work processes, plans, KPIs, and incentive schemes for the team to deliver on department and company goals. • Experience with debt and equity financing, and M&A transactions would be a plus, to include managing the capital structures of a company in the fintech/crypto space (equity, debt, capital requirements, etc.). • The ideal candidate will have a regulatory financial background but, in any event, he/she will possess a proven track record of successfully advising, influencing and representing an international company with complex regulatory, financial and legal matters.

Benefits

• Competitive starting salary • A discretionary annual bonus • Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant • Comprehensive health plans • 401K with company matching • Paid Parental Leave • Flexible time off

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