Senior Derivative Accountant
Ripple provides payments, custody and stablecoin solutions that help financial institutions integrate blockchain and digital assets.
Funding history
Investors
Projects
About Ripple
Ripple helps financial institutions transform global payments by providing blockchain-powered infrastructure for cross-border payments, digital asset custody, and stablecoin solutions. With it, users can enable instant settlements, reduce costs, and access new markets. The company was originally founded as OpenCoin in 2012 and rebranded to Ripple in 2015.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own the derivative-accounting lifecycle for client portfolios, including documentation, effectiveness testing, journal entries, disclosures, and audit support. You will apply hedge-accounting judgment, translate accounting guidance into practical summaries, respond to client questions, and improve accounting methodologies and templates.
Requirements
- 5+ years of derivative-instrument and hedge-accounting experience
- Technical knowledge of ASC 815 and IFRS 9
- Fair-value-measurement knowledge
- Derivative-valuation knowledge
- Client-engagement management experience
- Hedge-accounting-platform experience
- CPA
- Advanced degree in Accounting or Finance
Responsibilities
- Own derivative accounting across client portfolios
- Prepare and review hedge documentation and designation memos
- Perform prospective and retrospective effectiveness testing
- Prepare journal entries and financial-statement disclosures
- Apply judgment to hedge-accounting elections and de-designation scenarios
- Translate FASB and IASB guidance into actionable summaries
- Prepare audit support and engage external auditors
- Strengthen methodologies, templates, and technical guidance
Benefits
- Equity
- Bonuses
- Healthcare benefits
- Retirement benefits
- Family-forming and family-support benefits
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Wellness reimbursement
- Vacation policy
- Parental leave
- Family planning benefits
- Catered lunches
- Stocked kitchen
- Snacks and beverages
- Professional development budget
- Team offsites and bonding activities