Senior Accountant Financial Operations

About the role

This Senior Accountant role focuses on optimizing financial operations, covering everything from managing accounts payable and receivable to overseeing company spending. The individual will be responsible for identifying and resolving process bottlenecks, aiming to improve efficiency, accuracy, and the overall experience for vendors and customers. A key aspect of the role involves actively streamlining financial workflows and ensuring high standards in record-keeping.

A significant part of this position involves developing and integrating the finance technology stack. This includes leading the implementation of new expense management and bill payment platforms, automating accounts receivable, and exploring agentic procurement solutions. The successful candidate will evaluate existing tools and processes to determine where automation can be most effectively applied, taking ownership of these implementations through to full adoption.

The role also requires maintaining the general ledger for both Swiss and US entities, ensuring compliance with GAAP standards. This involves preparing and leading balance sheet and asset reconciliations, including traditional bank transactions and on-chain wallet activity. The Senior Accountant will contribute to month-end close processes, financial reporting, and ad-hoc analysis, while proactively identifying and addressing any control weaknesses to maintain financial integrity.

The annual salary for this position ranges from $81,000 to $93,000.

Skills that matter here

• accounting: This role requires a qualified accountant with 3-5 years of experience in public and industry accounting, focusing on financial management and reporting.
• financial management: The position involves controlling company spend, managing corporate cards, and reviewing employee expenses to ensure policy adherence.
• financial reporting: The Senior Accountant will prepare and support month-end close, financial reporting, budget vs. actual analysis, and ad hoc reports.
• Xero: Candidates should be hands-on with Xero or a similar platform, demonstrating comfort and proficiency with accounting software.
• Airtable: Familiarity with Airtable and other automation-friendly databases is required, indicating a need for systems fluency beyond basic accounting tools.
• blockchain: The role requires familiarity with blockchain and digital assets, including reconciling on-chain wallet activity alongside traditional bank statements.

Who this role suits

• A qualified accountant with a CPA, possessing 3-5 years of experience across public accounting and relevant industry roles.
• Someone who is systems-fluent, not just tolerant, with a proactive approach to integrating and optimizing financial tools.
• An individual comfortable with the fast pace of a startup environment, capable of maintaining accuracy amidst rapid change.
• A detail-oriented professional with strong analytical skills, able to identify and resolve complex financial issues.

From the employer

🔹You will:

• Own Procure-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash end to end — run AP and AR as processes, not queues. Find the bottlenecks, propose the fix, and implement it. Take responsibility for cycle times, accuracy, and the vendor and customer experience on both sides of the ledger.
• Build the finance tech stack alongside the Controller — lead the onboarding of a new expense management and bill pay platform, integrate agentic procurement, and automate AR. Evaluate what should be a tool, what should be an automation, and what still needs a human. Own the implementations through to adoption.
• Control company spend — manage corporate cards and the expense programme, review employee and company spending, and make policy real through process rather than reminders.
• Keep the general ledger clean across both entities — ensure all financial information is accurately reflected in the GL in compliance with the appropriate GAAP standards for our Swiss and US based entities.
• Own reconciliations, onchain and off — prepare and lead balance sheet and asset reconciliations, including bank transactions and onchain wallet activity.
• Report the numbers — prepare and support month-end close, financial reporting, budget vs actual, and ad hoc analysis for the Finance team and the wider business.
• Close control gaps before they cost something — monitor processes, procedures, and controls for record keeping accuracy, and proactively identify weaknesses and build the controls around them.

🔹Who you are:

• A qualified accountant with 3–5 years across public and industry — a mix of public accounting firm and relevant industry experience, with an emphasis on accounting, financial management, and financial reporting. Certified Public Accountant. FinTech experience is a strong plus; blockchain more so.
• Systems-fluent, not just systems-tolerant — hands-on with Xero or a comparable platform such as QuickBooks. Comfortable in Airtable and other automation-friendly databases. You have opinions about how tools should fit together and you have built those integrations yourself.
• Comfortable working with AI and agentic systems — you are nimble inside an evolving accounting tech stack, and you can lead a tooling project rather than wait for one to be handed to you.
• Onchain literate — familiar with blockchain, and the digital asset space, and unfazed by reconciling wallet activity alongside bank statements.
• Built for startup pace — you have worked in a fast-moving start-up or at a company that scaled quickly, and you know how to hold accuracy steady while everything around it changes.
• Detail-obsessed and analytical — strong problem-solving instincts, and the kind of attention to detail that catches the thing nobody was looking for.