Accounting Senior Manager
Alpaca is a brokerage infrastructure company providing developer APIs for stocks, options, fixed income, and crypto trading, plus tokenization infrastructure for TradFi–DeFi markets.
Funding history
Investors
About Alpaca
Alpaca provides API-first brokerage infrastructure for fintechs, institutions, algorithmic traders, and developers. Its offerings include Broker API, Trading API, market data, self-clearing brokerage services, crypto services, and the Instant Tokenization Network for in-kind minting and redemption of tokenized assets.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own cryptocurrency accounting activities, including close processes, reconciliations, journal-entry reviews, and financial reporting. You will lead crypto-business audits, support regulatory matters, develop controls and scalable processes, and research complex US GAAP accounting issues.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
- 8+ years of progressive accounting experience
- Understanding of US GAAP, technical accounting research, and financial reporting
- Experience managing close processes, preparing financial statements, and coordinating external audits
- Experience with cryptocurrency, digital assets, financial services, fintech, or complex transaction environments
- Experience researching, analyzing, and documenting complex accounting matters
- Experience improving accounting processes and internal controls
- Project management skills
- Communication skills
- CPA preferred
- Experience with cryptocurrency accounting preferred
- Experience supporting regulated financial services or crypto-related entities preferred
- Familiarity with SOC 1 or SOC 2 readiness, internal control frameworks, and audit evidence requirements preferred
- Experience with accounting automation, financial systems, or scaling accounting operations preferred
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end accounting for crypto and tokenization activities
- Lead month-end and quarter-end close processes, reconciliation reviews, journal-entry reviews, and financial reporting
- Develop and enhance accounting policies, procedures, and controls for cryptocurrency and digital-asset transactions
- Oversee accounting for digital-asset holdings, transfers, fees, and settlements
- Coordinate regulatory reporting with Finance, Legal, Compliance, and other stakeholders
- Drive process improvements, automation, and scalable accounting solutions
- Lead the external financial-statement audit process for the crypto business
- Prepare audit documentation, resolve accounting questions, and complete audit deliverables
- Support regulatory examinations, inquiries, and reporting requirements
- Research and evaluate complex or nonroutine transactions under US GAAP
- Prepare technical accounting memoranda and assess financial-statement implications
- Monitor accounting standards and regulatory developments and support new-requirement implementation
Benefits
- Stock options
- Health benefits
- One-time USD 500 home-office setup
- USD 150 monthly stipend via Brex Card