Prime Brokerage Accounting Lead

At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto.
Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the only federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital.
The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn. 
The Prime Brokerage Accounting Lead will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our rapidly expanding brokerage business. This individual will be responsible for overseeing all prime brokerage related accounting and reporting functions, ensuring compliance with regulations, and leading the design, documentation, and implementation of policies, processes, and controls under ASC 606. The role presents a unique and exciting opportunity to navigate the complexities of trading digital assets.We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Villagers better measure impact and articulate coaching, feedback, and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Prime Brokerage Accounting Lead role:

Technical Skills:

• Demonstrate expertise in US GAAP with a focus on ASC 606, ensuring accurate application to revenue recognition for prime brokerage services.
• Established expertise in designing, implementing, and continuously improving daily and month-end prime brokerage accounting practices, ensuring full compliance with GAAP and industry best practices.
• Proven ability to account for complex matrix organizational structures and intercompany transactions.

Complexity and Impact of Work:

• Lead the accounting team through the intricacies of accounting related to digital asset prime brokerage activities and products, ensuring alignment with customer contracts as well as evolving regulatory and industry best practices.
• Drive the development of scalable and automated financial processes and controls, leveraging your technical expertise to design and implement internal end-to-end trading system reporting, as well as integration of external software tools, as needed.
• Oversee month end accounting close responsibilities for brokerage related legal entities, including reviewing journal entries, account reconciliations, variance analysis, and FBO fiat and digital asset account reconciliations.
• Provide support for internal and external audits related to specific areas of responsibility.

Organizational Knowledge:

• Cultivate effective cross-functional communication with the brokerage, legal, operations, and technical accounting teams to ensure comprehensive documentation and understanding of transactions and their appropriate accounting treatment.
• Stay informed and socialize with the broader organization on industry pronouncements, emerging trends, and developments in accounting and reporting for digital assets, SEC regulations, and lending practices.

Communication and Influence:

• Leverage accounting expertise to provide guidance and requirements to product, brokerage operations, legal, and engineering teams in designing and implementing new products that meet financial reporting and compliance requirements.
• Assist with internal and external audits to ensure accuracy and timeliness of financial reporting.

You may be a fit for this role if you have:

• 8+ years of related accounting experience, with a mix of Big 4 public accounting experience, broker-dealer, trading firm and/or in a fast-paced startup/Fintech environment.
• Working knowledge of ASC 606 and US GAAP.
• In-depth understanding of agency and principal trading, derivatives, options, perpetual futures, and margin lending.
• An interest in accounting for digital assets and evolving markets.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and an ability to drive cross-functional projects.
• A track record of driving strong financial performance and accountability.

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

• Knowledge of blockchain technology and the crypto economy.
• You have worked at or with investment advisors or institutional investment funds.
• You can write Python scripts, SQL que