Senior Accountant, Corporate

The role

You will own expense accounting and corporate balance sheet close areas. This includes booking accruals, reconciling digital asset and bank balances, and tracing on-chain transactions. You will also use AI agents and automation to manage accounting tasks.

What you will do

• Own expense accounting and month-end close tasks outside of revenue
• Book and support bonus and other accruals and maintain prepaid schedules
• Account for share-based compensation and support equity-related financial reporting
• Reconcile the corporate balance sheet including bank accounts, platform cash, and digital asset and DeFi positions
• Review and trace transactions on-chain using block explorers
• Book realized and unrealized gains and losses
• Account for related party transactions and prepare intercompany elimination entries
• Take ownership of AI agents built with Claude
• Run monthly Snowflake queries and Google Apps Scripts
• Automate manual steps in the close

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of accounting experience
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting
• Strong working knowledge of US GAAP
• Experience owning close areas with minimal oversight
• Working knowledge of share-based compensation accounting (ASC 718) and related party transactions
• Crypto-native with hands-on experience reviewing transactions on-chain
• Clear understanding of realized versus unrealized gains and losses
• Understanding of intercompany eliminations and consolidation
• AI-forward with use of tools like Claude
• Comfortable running existing SQL queries in Snowflake
• Advanced Excel and Google Sheets skills
• Ability to run and troubleshoot Google Apps Scripts

Nice to have

• CPA (or equivalent)
• Hands-on experience with intercompany eliminations and consolidation
• Experience with DeFi activity (e.g., staking, lending, liquidity pools)
• Building AI agents or automated workflows used in a close
• Pulling in data for a new blockchain
• Using a digital asset subledger
• NetSuite
• Equity platform such as Carta
• Prior experience in crypto or financial services

About the company

Paxos is rebuilding financial infrastructure to enable the instant movement of any asset. They build blockchain infrastructure that tokenizes, custodies, trades and settles assets for leading financial institutions.