Member of Accounting, Regulated Trading & Derivatives
Anchorage Digital offers institutions secure and regulated crypto custody, trading, staking, and financing services.
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About Anchorage Digital
Anchorage Digital is a regulated crypto platform that provides institutions with integrated financial services and infrastructure solutions. Founded in 2017, Anchorage offers custody, trading, staking, and other services for digital assets, serving banks, fintechs, and investment funds. Anchorage aims to make it simple and secure for institutions to participate in the digital asset space.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will prepare journal entries, reconciliations and flux analysis for the Broker-dealer and Swap-dealer entities during monthly, quarterly and year-end close under US GAAP. You will account for trading, derivatives, margin and collateral, support SEC and CFTC regulatory reporting and net capital monitoring, help audits and examinations, and build and automate processes and controls while partnering with Treasury, Trading Operations, Engineering, Product, Compliance and Legal.
Requirements
- 8+ years of progressive accounting or finance experience, ideally in a broker-dealer, swap dealer, FCM, bank, trading firm or crypto company
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field
- CPA license or progress toward one strongly preferred
- Solid command of US GAAP including ASC 815
- Exposure to derivatives such as futures, options and uncleared swaps
- Advanced Excel skills and comfort with a modern ledger or ERP such as NetSuite and close tools such as FloQast
- Ability to communicate accounting and regulatory capital topics to non-finance partners
- Must complete in-person onboarding
Responsibilities
- Prepare journal entries, account reconciliations and flux analysis for Broker-dealer and Swap-dealer entities under US GAAP
- Account for trading activity, derivatives, margin, collateral and digital asset positions and reconcile to clearing, custody and counterparty statements
- Investigate and resolve breaks and open items and document root causes
- Support internal and external auditors with schedules, samples and walkthroughs
- Prepare supporting schedules and workpapers for SEC FOCUS reports, CFTC/NFA swap dealer financial reports and net capital computations
- Help monitor compliance with SEC Rules 15c3-1 and 15c3-3 and CFTC Regulations 23.101 and 23.104
- Support accounting and reconciliation of uncleared swap activity including initial and variation margin
- Maintain the weekly regulatory capital model
- Support regulatory audits and examinations (SEC, FINRA, CFTC, NFA)
- Help set up books, chart of accounts, reconciliations, close checklists and reporting packages
- Document processes and help design and test internal controls over financial reporting
- Automate manual work in spreadsheets and the ledgering system
- Partner with Compliance, Legal and Trading on new products and strategies
- Take on special and ad-hoc projects
