Senior Accountant, Crypto Finance & Operations at Wormhole Labs

Job description

About the role We're a crypto-native group of companies spanning market making, liquidity provision, on-chain trading infrastructure, and software development. We're expanding our accounting and nance team, and this person will work directly with the Head of Finance as a core part of that build out. You'll own the monthly close across multiple entities, keep our crypto subledgers accurate, handle billing and revenue tracking, and support compliance, tax and legal. What you'll do • Run the monthly close for several entities in QuickBooks Online, including bank and exchange reconciliations, journal entries, intercompany due to/due from tie-outs, and eliminations for the consolidated package. • Maintain our crypto subledgers, including importing and validating exchange and on-chain transaction data and reconciling balances back to source. • Reconcile trading and liquidity activity across CEX accounts, perp venues like Hyperliquid, and DeFi LP positions on Solana and EVM chains, and produce P&L and rollforward schedules. • Set up and maintain charts of accounts for new entities and business lines as they launch. • Prepare monthly retainer and revenue share invoices, and maintain the Excel trackers behind them (tiered fee logic, per-client billing bases). • Support entity structuring work across the group, including intercompany loans, capital contributions and distributions, and the accounting for related party transactions. • Help prepare annual filings and tax workpapers (BVI financial returns, federal tax memos, and supporting schedules for our outside CPA firm). • Assemble KYB packages, member and manager registers, and other documentation for banks, brokers and institutional partners. • Help maintain AML/OFAC program documentation and coordinate responses to regulatory and law enforcement records requests. • Support HR and payroll ops in Rippling, including deduction setups, payroll corrections and contractor tracking. • Build and maintain Excel and Google Sheets models: amortization schedules, loan workbooks, portfolio trackers and deal models. What we're looking for • Ideally 5+ years of accounting experience, including 3+ years in crypto or digital assets. • CPA, or actively working toward it. • Real familiarity with digital asset accounting. You understand wallets, token transfers, swaps and perps, and you know how they should be accounted for. • A working understanding of DeFi, including liquidity pools, AMMs, lending protocols and staking, and how to account for each of them. • Hands-on experience with QBO and at least one crypto subledger. • Strong Excel skills. INDEX/MATCH, dropdown-driven models and clean reconciliation skills. • Comfort with multi-entity and intercompany accounting, including related party considerations under GAAP. • Good judgment on when an issue needs to be escalated and the ability to communicate it clearly, both verbally and in writing. • Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities at once. Nice to have • Experience with crypto subledger platforms (TRES, Koinly and Breezing). • Experience with entity structuring, including multi-entity setups, intercompany arrangements and offshore entities. • Exposure to BVI or other offshore entity reporting. • Some scripting ability (Python, Apps Script) for cleaning and transforming transaction exports. • Experience with Rippling or another EOR/payroll platform. Why join You'll work directly with leadership and the Head of Finance, with real ownership over the processes you run. Our processes are established, and you'll be trusted to own them, improve them where it makes sense, and take on challenging problems across a fast-moving group of companies.

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Run the monthly close for several entities in QuickBooks Online, including bank and exchange reconciliations, journal entries, intercompany due to/due from tie-outs, and eliminations for the consolidated package.
Maintain our crypto subledgers, including importing and validating exchange and on-chain transaction data and reconciling balances back to source.
Reconcile trading and liquidity activity across CEX accounts, perp venues like Hyperliquid, and DeFi LP positions on Solana and EVM chains, and produce P&L and rollforward schedules.
Set up and maintain charts of accounts for new entities and business lines as they launch.
Prepare monthly retainer and revenue share invoices, and maintain the Excel trackers behind them (tiered fee logic, per-client billing bases).
Support entity structuring work across the group, including intercompany loans, capital contributions and distributions, and the accounting for related party transactions.
Help prepare annual filings and tax workpapers (BVI financial returns, federal tax memos, and supporting schedules for our outside CPA firm).
Assemble KYB packages, member and manager registers, and other documentation for banks, brokers and institutional partners.
Help maintain AML/OFAC program documentation and coordinate responses to regulatory and law enforcement records requests.
Support HR and payroll ops in Rippling, including deduction setups, payroll corrections and contractor tracking.
Build and maintain Excel and Google Sheets models: amortization schedules, loan workbooks, portfolio trackers and deal models.
Ideally 5+ years of accounting experience, including 3+ years in crypto or digital assets.
CPA, or actively working toward it.
Real familiarity with digital asset accounting. You understand wallets, token transfers, swaps and perps, and you know how they should be accounted for.
A working understanding of DeFi, including liquidity pools, AMMs, lending protocols and staking, and how to account for each of them. • Hands-on experience with QBO and at least one crypto subledger.
Strong Excel skills. INDEX/MATCH, dropdown-driven models and clean reconciliation skills.
Comfort with multi-entity and intercompany accounting, including related party considerations under GAAP.
Good judgment on when an issue needs to be escalated and the ability to communicate it clearly, both verbally and in writing.
Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities at once.

Nice-to-haves

Experience with crypto subledger platforms (TRES, Koinly and Breezing).
Experience with entity structuring, including multi-entity setups, intercompany arrangements and offshore entities.
Exposure to BVI or other offshore entity reporting.
Some scripting ability (Python, Apps Script) for cleaning and transforming transaction exports.
Experience with Rippling or another EOR/payroll platform.

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