Remote-First Senior Accountant: Scale Fintech Finance

Coinbase, Inc.; United Arab Emirates; Hybrid; AED 369,000 - 451,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking an experienced accounting professional in the United Arab Emirates to own the monthly and quarterly close, ensure accurate financial reporting, and support VARA regulatory processes. This role emphasizes SOX controls, internal controls, and cross-functional collaboration across international teams while navigating fintech operations.

The ideal candidate will bring strong reconciliations, reporting, and data accuracy, with the ability to manage end-to-end flows and complex

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance; CPA/CA/ACCA preferred.
• 5+ years of progressive accounting, controllership, audit, or fintech experience.
• Strong experience with monthly close, financial reporting, reconciliations, and internal controls.
• Experience with SOX, regulatory reporting, VARA exposure preferred.
• Understand end-to-end transaction flows across entities and systems.
• Analytical, organized, and capable of coordinating across time zones.
• Familiarity with NetSuite, SQL, and finance analytics tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own key activities in the monthly and quarterly close, including reconciliations, journal entries, balance-sheet analysis, reporting, and resolution of breaks or unusual activity.
• Support the preparation, review, and submission of VARA regulatory reporting, including data-quality checks, reconciliations, reporting controls, and audit trails.
• Execute and strengthen SOX controls, maintain process documentation and evidence, and support Internal Audit and external-audit requests and remediation.
• Partner with cross-functional teams on new product launches and business initiatives, ensuring accounting and regulatory readiness from inception.
• Review flow of funds, legal-entity impacts, posting rules, ledger and subledger design, reconciliations, testing, and launch readiness for new products.
• Identify and implement opportunities to automate and scale accounting operations through technology and process improvement.
• Identify accounting, reporting, regulatory, and operational risks early and drive issues to resolution.

Skills

SOX controls

Regulatory reporting

Financial reporting

Reconciliations

Internal controls

Stakeholder management

SQL

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance

CPA/CA/ACCA preferred

Tools

NetSuite

SQL

Finance analytics tools

Job description

Coinbase is seeking an experienced accounting professional in the United Arab Emirates to own the monthly and quarterly close, ensure accurate financial reporting, and support VARA regulatory processes. This role emphasizes SOX controls, internal controls, and cross-functional collaboration across international teams while navigating fintech operations.

The ideal candidate will bring strong reconciliations, reporting, and data accuracy, with the ability to manage end-to-end flows and complex