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, that intercompany transactions are recorded correctly and eliminated, and that financial reporting systems grow alongside the business. You'll bring your financial services accounting expertise and knowledge of offshore holding structures to handle the accounting challenges of 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, revenue recognition
- Experience managing multi-entity close processes including offshore structures
- BVI/Cayman entity experience (preferred)
- Digital asset accounting knowledge, 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/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/operating entities
- Coordinate with offshore counsel and registered agents
- Manage equity accounting, cash/funding positions, and intercompany support arrangements
- Apply ASC 820 and ASU 2023-08 for crypto asset fair value measurement
- Reconcile on-chain/off-chain positions with Custody and Operations
- Monitor evolving SEC/FASB/IASB guidance
- Produce monthly management accounts, variance analysis, and board/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
- 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
- Flexible in-office collaboration schedule
- Bi-weekly all-company meetings with Leadership Team
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, and happy hours
- Competitive bonuses and equity
- Comprehensive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Parental leave policies and family planning benefits
- Catered lunches and fully-stocked kitchens