Financial Controller
Ripple provides crypto and blockchain solutions for enterprises, enabling global financial entities to move, manage, and tokenize value. They focus on improving existing financial systems through partnerships and regulatory compliance, with products used in over 50 countries.
About Ripple
Ripple is an enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions company that aims to enable the world to move value as seamlessly as information moves today. Their mission is to build breakthrough crypto solutions for a world without economic borders. Using blockchain technology, Ripple facilitates global financial institutions, businesses, governments, and developers to move, manage, and tokenize value, thereby unlocking greater economic opportunity. The company works within existing financial systems to improve them, partnering with customers to streamline infrastructure and collaborating with regulators to ensure solutions are secure and compliant. Ripple's products are in commercial use by hundreds of customers across more than 50 countries, helping them expand into new markets, access liquidity solutions, and generate crypto-enabled revenue streams. They also support developers by providing tools for building on the XRP Ledger, a fast and sustainable public blockchain. Ripple’s payments, custody and stablecoin solutions empower financial institutions to integrate blockchain and digital assets into their business in a simple, secure, compliant way—all in one place. From instant payments to asset tokenization, blockchain and crypto are happening right now, across the world. It’s happening to suppliers, to retailers, to exchanges, to currencies, to sectors, to industries, to markets, and to global businesses. And it’s happening with Ripple.
Skills
About the Role
You will act as the senior accounting officer responsible for financial reporting, general ledger accuracy, and control measures across the OTC operating entity and its BVI offshore entities. You will work closely with the CFO, Legal, and Tax teams to ensure the group's offshore entities are accurately accounted for, intercompany transactions are recorded and eliminated correctly, and the firm's financial reporting systems grow with the business. You will bring your expertise in financial services accounting, offshore holding structures, and digital asset accounting to help scale a fast-growing digital asset company.
Requirements
- Active CPA
- 10+ years of progressive accounting experience in financial services or trading
- Strong US GAAP technical skills including consolidation, intercompany, equity method, and revenue recognition
- Experience managing multi-entity close processes including offshore structures
- BVI/Cayman entity experience preferred
- Digital asset accounting knowledge such as ASU 2023-08 preferred
- Python or data analysis proficiency preferred
- Background in prime brokerage, OTC derivatives, or structured finance preferred
- Big 4 or national firm experience in financial services preferred
- ERP implementation experience preferred
Responsibilities
- Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close for all in-scope entities
- Prepare US GAAP financial statements including intercompany balances and sub-consolidations
- Manage revenue recognition, accruals, fixed assets, and balance sheet substantiation
- Manage all intercompany transactions including service fees, funding flows, cost allocations, and loans
- Design elimination policies and prepare sub-consolidation workpapers
- Support transfer pricing documentation with Tax
- Maintain books for BVI holding and operating entities
- Coordinate with offshore counsel and registered agents
- Manage equity accounting, cash and funding positions, and intercompany support arrangements
- Apply ASC 820 and ASU 2023-08 for crypto asset fair value measurement
- Reconcile on-chain and off-chain positions with Custody and Operations
- Monitor evolving SEC, FASB, and IASB guidance
- Produce monthly management accounts, variance analysis, and board and investor packages
- Support budgeting, forecasting, and CFO ad hoc analysis
- Maintain a strong control environment and serve as primary external audit contact
- Develop and document accounting policies and identify and remediate control gaps
- Build and lead a small accounting team
- Leverage Python or data tools to automate reconciliations and reporting
- Partner with Technology on ERP and system enhancements
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Industry-leading parental leave policies
- Family planning benefits
- Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks and beverages