Senior Finance Associate - Crypto

Bitcipher Labs; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

CoinSwitch is seeking a Newly qualified CA with 1.5 years of experience to join the P&L and group finance teams in Bengaluru. You will own and coordinate controllership duties across financial statements, audits, ESOP accounting and investor reporting, coordinating with multiple stakeholders.

You will work closely with product and finance teams to ensure accurate financial disclosures, consolidation, and compliance with Ind AS across group entities.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Ind AS and financial reporting fundamentals.
• Strong understanding of audit processes and auditor-ready workings.
• Familiar with statutory/secretarial reporting data requirements.

Responsibilities

• Support month-end and year-end closure activities.
• Maintain intercompany structures and cross-charge matters.
• Prepare compliance applicability lists for group entities.
• Prepare ESOP workings and investor reporting."
• Coordinate secretarial reporting requirements and audits.
• Coordinate actuarial reports and finance entries/disclosures.
• Own lease accounting and Ind AS 116 related entries.
• Handle investments and impairment assessments for fintech entities.

Skills

Financial reporting

Audit processes

Statutory reporting

Excel skills

ERP experience

Education

Chartered Accountant

Tools

Oracle NetSuite

Job description

Know the Company

CoinSwitch is India's leading crypto trading and investing platform, established in 2017. Trusted by over 2crore registered users, we make accessing and investing in crypto simple, accessible and easy tounderstand. We are one of the first ones to be registered with the Financial Intelligence UnitIndia(FIU-IND) and to follow applicable KYC and AML/CFT requirements. CoinSwitch is committed to buildinga secure, transparent and trusted platform for our users.CoinSwitchs offerings span retail investors, HNIs and institutional clients, with products and solutionsdesigned to meet the evolving needs of different investor segments.We are a Series C company with over $300 million in funding, backed by leading global investorsincluding Coinbase Ventures, a16z, Paradigm, Ribbit Capital, Sequoia Capital India, Tiger Global andothers.

About The Role:

We are looking for a business associate at CoinSwitch to be part of the P&L team. You will be the oneresponsible for the acquiring and retaining trading influencers to promote the platform . You will focuson influencer relationship management. As an excellent business associate, you must have a knack foridentifying emerging high quality influencers and have an empathy for influencer needs. You must havethe ability to position new features to existing influencers to increase adoption for newly launchedproducts. You must have data orientation and willingness to talk to influencers to gather feedback andshare it with the product team. You must be able to resolve any issues influencers are facing on theproduct by coordinating with relevant stakeholders in the company

Role purpose

Own and execute a broad controllership portfolio across group finance, financial statements, audits, secretarial/statutory reporting, ESOP, investor reporting, actuarial matters, Ind AS accounting, restructuring, investment accounting, impairment, SOPs and certifications. Because the role appears as both Owner and Backup across the matrix, the candidate must be capable of taking over work end-to-end.

Key responsibilities must be hands-on

• Support Month end closure and year end closure activities.
• Maintain and analyse group intercompany structure; support intercompany accounting and cross-charge matters.
• Prepare applicability lists for relevant laws/sections for group companies and track compliance requirements.
• Prepare ESOP workings and accounting and maintain supporting schedules.
• Prepare investor reporting and respond to investor queries with accurate financial data.
• Support FLA, DPT-3 and annual-return data preparation/review and coordinate secretarial reporting requirements.
• Support PFIC analysis for investors, including confirmations and related documentation.
• Coordinate Board Meeting finance requirements and prepare supporting financial information.
• Prepare annual financial statements for entities and support two-step consolidation.
• Own/coordinate statutory, management and internal audits, including PBCs, reconciliations and auditor responses.
• Coordinate actuarial reports and ensure relevant finance entries/disclosures are captured.
• Own lease accounting and schedules and ensure Ind AS 116-related entries/reconciliations are complete.
• Support group restructuring projects and prepare finance data/analyses.
• Handle accounting for investments in unquoted investments, VDAs, SAFEs and similar instruments, including schedules and accounting support.
• Prepare/coordinate impairment assessments for investments and maintain supporting valuation/evidence files.

Technical capability expected

• Strong Ind AS / financial reporting fundamentals, particularly consolidation, leases, financial instruments/investments and impairment.
• Good understanding of audit processes and ability to prepare auditor-ready workings.
• Comfort with statutory/secretarial reporting and compliance data requirements.
• Strong Excel skills and ability to build workings from raw data.
• ERP experience, especially Oracle/NetSuite, is preferred.
• Ability to work across multiple entities and maintain a clean evidence trail.

Requirements

• Newly qualified CA with approximately 1.5 years relevant experience.
• Big 4 articleship or post-qualification experience preferred.
• Candidate must be a hands-on executor; pure audit coordination profiles are not sufficient.
• Strong financial reporting/audit fundamentals and Excel skills.
• Exposure to group entities, consolidation, Ind AS, investments or fintech/startup finance is preferred.