Chief Accounting Officer

About the position

Gemini is looking to hire a Chief Accounting Officer. You will join a rapidly-growing and high-quality, established digital asset exchange that is regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services. This appointment will be central to our continued scaling as an organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead all financial statement preparation, presentation, and retention, along with financial planning and analysis, budget forecasting and re-forecasting.
• Maintain all ledger reconciliations, capital computations, audit support, bookkeeping, and accounting due diligence.
• Submit 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 as well as ability to comply with SEC requirements.
• Manage, grow, and cultivate a high performing team of Global Financial Operations professionals across Accounting and AP/AR functions in the US, Dublin, and Singapore.
• 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. An advanced graduate degree is a plus.
• 20+ years of 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.

Nice-to-haves

• 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