About Uphold
Uphold is a financial technology company that believes on-chain services are the future of finance. It provides modern infrastructure for on-chain payments, banking, and investments. Offering Consumer Services, Business Services, and Institutional Trading, Uphold makes pioneering financial services easy and trusted for millions of customers in more than 140 countries.
Uphold strips away the complexity and lack of transparency to open up Web3 finance for everyone.
To learn more about Uphold, please visit https://uphold.com.
The opportunity
Uphold is seeking an experienced and detail-oriented Senior Accounting Manager to join our dynamic Accounting team.
This critical role will report directly to the Chief Accounting Officer, and will be responsible for overseeing key accounting functions, ensuring compliance with GAAP, and supporting month-end and year-end close processes.
The ideal candidate is a CPA with strong technical accounting expertise, a proactive mindset, and a passion for process improvement within a fast-paced fintech environment. This is a unique opportunity to help scale financial operations at a mission-driven company building the future of on-chain finance.
What you’ll be doing primarily
- Perform month-end close activities, including review of journal entries and reconciliations for various balance sheet and income statement accounts.
- Assist in preparation of month end and year end financials
- Perform financial statement analysis and document meaningful explanations for fluctuations.
- Review financial statements to ensure transactions and consolidations are properly reflected and in accordance with GAAP.
- Participate in streamlining and process improvement projects, enhancing the internal controls over accounting processes and systems.
- Assist in implementing new accounting policies and procedures.
- Prepare schedules and reports for management and external service providers.
- Support external audit requirements related to specific areas of responsibility, including preparation of audit schedules.
- Support management in completing special projects, ad-hoc reporting and analysis requests.
- Support financial reporting and planning teams, as necessary.
- Other duties as required or assigned.
Core competencies
- Customer Obsession: Designs audit practices that protect users and build long-term trust.
- Bias for Action: Operates with urgency, especially when facing ambiguity or emerging risk.
- Mission-Driven: Passion for crypto, financial democratization, and responsible innovation.
- Owner’s Mentality: Acts like a founder — accountable, cost-conscious, and proactive in solving issues.
- Technical Fluency: Understands digital assets, blockchain architecture, and product engineering enough to audit complex crypto systems.
- Data-Driven: Leverages data and metrics to inform risk decisions and audit focus.
- Communication Excellence: Translates complex audit issues into actionable, business-relevant insights for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Trust and Transparency: Embeds ethical thinking and compliance into every facet of the role.
Required qualifications
- BA/BS degree in Accounting or related field
- CPA/Chartered Accountant qualification required
- 8+ years of accounting experience
- Strong knowledge and application of GAAP and internal controls
- Ability to execute, follow-up, and ensure attention to detail
- Commitment to process improvement and the ability to think “out-of the box”
- Excellent time management skills, ability to prioritize and multitask
- High degree of dedication to improvement and strong sense of ownership
- Strong Excel proficiency is required
Bonus if you have (Optional)
- Public Company Audit experience
- NetSuite or similar product experience
- SEC Reporting experience
- Experience overseeing technical audits
- Fintech/SaaS experience
Salary: $135,000 - $160,000 + DOE
What we have to offer you
- An amazing work environment in a company that continues to grow, driven by extraordinary and passionate people that keep up innovating and challenging more each day.
- An international team, in a cutting edge field, working on the most fascinating projects.
- Growth and career opportunities, and the chance to be proactive and creative.
- A flexible and enthusiastic work environment that offers you snacks, a lot of coffee and other great benefits.
- Open and transparent culture - we get together on a weekly basis to share updates, strategic plans, and engage with each other informally over food and drinks.
- Interesting events that keep you connected with the team and celebrate our success.
Be part of a great company that is revolutionizing the financial services. Apply now!
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