Accounting Manager

Uphold • Full-time • New York, New York • 15h ago

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 Accounting Manager to join our dynamic Accounting team.

This critical role will report directly to the VP, Head of Accounting, 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
7+ 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 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: $115,00 - $140,000 DOE + Bonus, 401K, Benefits

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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