Senior Accountant

Wwshemi; United Arab Emirates; Remote; AED 369,000 - 451,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity eligibility

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Bonus eligibility

Job summary

Coinbase, a remote-first fintech leader, is seeking an experienced accounting professional to own monthly and quarterly close, regulatory reporting with VARA, and SOX controls. You will partner with cross-functional teams on new product launches, ensuring regulatory readiness from inception and robust internal controls.

You will review fund flows, entity impacts, ledgers, and postings, while identifying automation opportunities to scale accounting operations and mitigate risks across

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field; CPA, CA, ACCA, or equivalent preferred.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in accounting, controllership, audit, fintech, or related fields.
• Strong experience with monthly close, financial reporting, reconciliations, internal controls, and SOX.
• Exposure to VARA regulatory reporting and cross-entity transaction awareness.
• Ability to assess end-to-end transaction flows across entities, systems, and ledgers.

Responsibilities

• Own key activities in monthly and quarterly close, including reconciliations and reporting.
• Support VARA regulatory reporting with data-quality checks and audit trails.
• Execute and strengthen SOX controls, maintain process docs and evidence.
• Partner with cross-functional teams on new product launches to ensure regulatory readiness.
• Review fund flows and ledger design, ensuring launch readiness for new products.
• Identify opportunities to automate accounting operations and scale processes.
• Identify and mitigate accounting and regulatory risks across international entities.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Stakeholder management

Independent work across time zones

Attention to detail

Regulatory reporting experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance

CPA/CA/ACCA (preferred)

Tools

NetSuite

OmniLedger/ABOR

SQL

Finance analytics tools

Job description

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase (https://www.coinbase.com/?utm_campaign=mt_o_m_w_m_m__coi_0_jd-onchain&utm_source=coinbase), we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase (https://www.coinbase.com/careers).

What you’ll do:

• 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.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; CPA, CA, ACCA, or equivalent qualification preferred.

• 5+ years of progressive experience in accounting, controllership, audit, financial services, fintech, capital markets, exchange, custody, clearing, or digital assets.

• Strong experience with monthly close, financial reporting, reconciliations, audit support, and internal controls.

• Experience with SOX, regulatory reporting, process documentation, control testing, or remediation; exposure to VARA is strongly preferred.

• Ability to understand end-to-end transaction flows and assess impacts across legal entities, systems, ledgers, and reporting outputs.

• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to operate independently across international time zones.

• Familiarity with derivatives, digital assets, OmniLedger/ABOR, NetSuite, SQL, or finance analytics tools is preferred.

• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Pay Transparency Notice: The target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, and vision).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

410,000 د.إ-410,000 د.إ AED

• Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.

• Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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