Finance Operations Associate
Sei Labs
Accounting & Finance, Operations
San Francisco, CA, USA · Brooklyn, NY, USA · Remote
Posted on Oct 31, 2024
About Sei Labs
Sei Labs builds open sourced technology for the high-performance Sei Blockchain, the first parallelized EVM Layer 1 blockchain designed to scale with the industry. The unique optimizations built into Sei enable Web3 applications to reach Web2 level scale and performance, driving the mass adoption of digital assets.
Our teams are comprised of former Google, Goldman Sachs, Robinhood, Nvidia, and Databricks veterans dedicated to onboarding the next billion users onto a vibrant ecosystem of applications.
Sei Labs has raised over $30M from top investors including Jump Crypto, Multicoin Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Distributed Global, Hudson River Trading, and Flow Traders.
We're a globally distributed team with a fully remote workforce. Check out our website and docs for more details.
About the Role
We are looking for a Finance Operations Associate well versed in crypto and digital assets to be an integral part of our Operations team, reporting directly to our Head of Operations. This person will manage Sei’s financial operations, including budgeting, forecasting, and reporting, and ensuring accuracy, transparency, and compliance with regulations and accounting standards while analyzing financial data. The goal is to provide stakeholders with timely and reliable financial information for educated decision-making. The team’s commitment to financial stewardship contributes to the company's long-term stability and success.
What You’ll Do
- Manage finance operations, including both crypto tokens and cash management, bank reconciliations, AP, AR, reimbursements, vendor payment processing, and invoicing activities.
- Develop, implement, and refine accounting policies and procedures to prepare financial reports, budgets, and forecasts, guiding the company’s financial strategy and building robust financial processes. This includes: GL management, ensuring accurate and timely records of all financial transactions; Monthly closing, including bank/crypto wallet/credit card account reconciliations and analysis.
- Ensure compliance with tax regulations, audit processes, internal controls, and legal requirements.
- Providing support to and manage timely and effective audits.
- Supporting the establishment of internal controls, procedures and processes.
- Oversee and review the work of external consultants.
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting required.
- 2+ years of experience in crypto, fintech, or start-up environments.
- 2+ years of management consulting, investment banking, or business operations preferred.
- In-depth understanding and relevant experience in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry, including strong grasp of trends, themes, tokenomics, etc.
- Strong organizational and project management skills.
- Strong written and analytical skills for deal analysis and internal reporting.
- Strong analytical, problem solving and interpersonal skills.
- Underdog mentality to do whatever it takes to solve complex problems and build scalable processes.
- Ready to adapt to a fast-paced continuous learning environment.
- Willingness to take on additional responsibility when needed.
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