Junior Accounting Analyst

Nascent; Montreal (administrative region); Hybrid; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology company is seeking a Junior Accounting Analyst to manage and ensure accuracy in both fiat and crypto accounting. The role involves collaborating with engineering and operations to enhance data workflows, automating repetitive tasks, and improving the financial reporting system. Ideal candidates will have 2-3 years of experience, possess formal accounting training, and demonstrate adaptability in a fast-paced environment. Enjoy a competitive compensation package and a fully remote working arrangement.

Benefits

Competitive compensation package with bonuses

Comprehensive health benefits

16 weeks fully paid parental leave

Flexible work hours and open vacation policy

Home office setup stipend

Qualifications

• 2–3 years in accounting, audit, or financial operations.
• Proven ability to operate in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
• Experience with crypto accounting or digital asset workflows preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage fiat and crypto accounting, ensuring accuracy and reliability.
• Partner with teams to enhance data workflows and controls.
• Automate repetitive processes to improve efficiency.

Skills

Problem-solving

Detail-oriented

Adaptability

AI-driven workflows

Education

Formal accounting training (CPA track or equivalent)

Tools

Modern analytics tools

Job description

The Opportunity

As a Junior Accounting Analyst at Nascent, you’ll sit at the center of how the business actually runs. You’ll work across a wide mix of financial assets, from traditional finance workflows to emerging digital asset structures, and play a key role in shaping how our data is captured, cleaned, and automated.

You’ll be responsible for keeping the books clean, accurate, and audit-ready across both fiat and digital assets. You’ll work with imperfect data, reconcile complex activity, and ensure financial information is reliable from source to reporting. Along the way, you’ll partner closely with operators and engineers to improve how data flows through our systems and to reduce friction in day-to-day operations.

You’ll thrive here if you’re high-agency, gritty, and deeply curious — someone who enjoys problem-solving and naturally thinks like a builder. This role is fully remote and operates within +/- 3 hours of EST.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the books across fiat and crypto, running full-cycles from wallet/exchange to ledger to reporting — clean, tight, and built for speed.
  
• Partner with engineering and operations to turn messy data into dependable workflows and controls, strengthening the speed and reliability of our accounting stack.

• Be the source of financial truth, keeping reconciliations, ledgers, and documentation crisp and audit-read – you know the story behind every number.

• Automate what doesn’t need to be manual – use integrations, smart tools, or lightweight scripting to eliminate repetitive work and replace fragile processes with scalable ones.

• Hunt down issues before they become problems, propose solutions, and drive improvements through to implementation.

• Support the ongoing improvement of Nascent’s crypto accounting system, contributing to infrastructure that powers wallet activity, reconciliations, and reporting.

About You

• You own outcomes, set clear expectations, and deliver — no hand-holding required.
  
• You thrive in ambiguity and move fast in scrappy, high-motion environments.
  
• You solve problems at the root, shifting from quick fixes to scalable systems without losing speed.
  
• You use AI and automation to work smarter, tighten workflows, and push quality higher.
  
• You’re hands-on, detail-driven, and unafraid to dive into the weeds to get the work right.

Preferred Experience

• 2–3 years in accounting, audit, or financial operations.
  
• Formal accounting training (CPA track or equivalent) that built accounting fundamentals such as close cycles, compliance, and day-to-day bookkeeping
  
• High digital fluency, especially with AI-driven workflows and modern analytics tools.
  
• Proven ability to operate in fast-moving, ambiguous environments — you adapt quickly and keep momentum.

Nice to Haves

• Time spent at a Big 4 firm, operating inside complex financials, tight timelines, and high standards for accuracy

• Familiarity with crypto accounting or digital asset workflows.
  
• Experience contributing to or building bespoke financial software.
  
• Background in lean teams or startup environments where speed, ownership, and adaptability matter.

About Nascent

Founded in 2020, Nascent exists to build, expand, and capture opportunity, in open markets and permissionless technologies. Building from a base of permanent capital, we deploy assets across a range of both liquid and long-term strategies that ensure we are among the most active users of the open financial system we are helping to build. We've made venture investments in 100+ early-stage teams that we believe have the potential to create substantive change, expand boundaries, and find new horizons. We are consistently on the hunt for the most competitive and curious minds exploring the edges of the crypto ecosystem and leverage our hyper flexible structure to accelerate ideas into fully deployed strategies.

Our Team & Culture

At Nascent, we are an interdisciplinary team of investors, builders & creators, capable of achieving more together than we can as individuals. We offer the opportunity to contribute to building the future global economic system with a world-class team and culture that pairs the freedom to explore, experiment & play with a competitive drive to win. We invest in our people by providing the autonomy to build, coupled with accountability & honest feedback to help learn, grow, perform & win. We’re a fully distributed team that understands the value of in-person time—we host a team retreat each year and encourage team members to come together for more frequent in-person work.

Principles that drive our team & work

• Compete to win
• Explore, experiment, play
• Always be building
• Seek and speak truth
• Own your shit

What We Offer

At Nascent, we offer a competitive total compensation package heavily weighted toward bonus, ensuring that when we perform at our best and the firm wins we all win.

• The opportunity to learn, experiment and build in an entrepreneurial environment
• Remote and distributed working environment
• Comprehensive health benefits package including dental, vision, and life
• 16 weeks fully paid parental leave & supported return to work
• Home office setup and stipend or coworking space and wellness stipend
• Retirement plan matching contributions
• Open vacation policy as well as flexible work hours and location
• Team activities and in-person team retreats

We are an equal opportunity employer and celebrate diversity and differences of perspectives. We do not discriminate on the basis of any status, inclusive of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.