Director Technical Accounting and Financial Reporting

Skills

About the Role

You will lead technical accounting and financial reporting activities, providing authoritative guidance on complex accounting issues and ensuring accurate U.S. GAAP-compliant financial statements and disclosures. You will manage relationships with external auditors, own internal controls over financial reporting, support M&A accounting, implement reporting tools, and represent accounting in cross-functional strategic and transformation initiatives.

Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive accounting experience including people management
• Extensive knowledge of U.S. GAAP, IFRS, and SEC reporting requirements
• Expertise in technical accounting issues and public company readiness
• Exceptional technical accounting memo writing skills
• Proven leadership and ability to manage significant initiatives across the organization
• Ability to work cross-functionally to gather facts, assess business requirements and communicate accounting conclusions
• Highly developed written and verbal communication skills
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance and CPA required
• Experience with M&A due diligence and purchase accounting
• Prior experience in Banking, Broker-Dealer, or trading environments preferred
• Digital asset / cryptocurrency experience highly preferred but not required
• Experience with multinational and multi-currency accounting and complex business structures
• Familiarity with SOX compliance
• Experience with ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite)
• Basic SQL and experience with analytics tools

Responsibilities

• Provide technical accounting guidance for all company activities
• Lead and develop accounting staff and act as a subject matter expert
• Prepare and own internal and external financial reporting and disclosures in accordance with U.S. GAAP
• Lead policy initiatives and implement new accounting standards
• Support cross-functional strategic initiatives including product launches and new revenue models
• Own internal controls over financial reporting, maintain control narratives and remediate control gaps
• Participate in and present at audit committee meetings
• Manage external auditors and serve as primary auditor contact
• Support M&A due diligence and lead purchase price and opening balance sheet accounting
• Implement financial statement reporting tools such as Workiva
• Represent reporting and technical accounting in finance transformation and automation projects

Benefits

• Performance linked bonus
• Equity
• Competitive benefits package