• Internal Control & Audit Readiness:

  Design and enforce accounting policies and internal controls to protect organizational assets. Act as the lead for external audits, ensuring transparency and compliance.

• Process Optimization:

  Develop scalable processes, improve reporting workflows, and integrate accounting systems with operational tools to increase clarity and efficiency.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration:

  Work closely with legal, treasury, tax, and operations to align financial execution with organizational objectives.

• Strategic Insight:

  Deliver decision-ready data and insights for leadership and board reporting. Provide accounting input for token treasury planning and financial modeling.

Qualifications

• CPA (or international equivalent) with 7+ years of progressive experience, including 3+ years of successfully leading, mentoring, and managing a team in high-output environments.
• Direct experience working with wallets, subledger platforms, and blockchain explorers to trace, reconcile, and classify digital asset transactions.
• Understanding of token lifecycle accounting and economic substance behind staking, bridging, vesting, and ecosystem funding transactions.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS and experience applying accounting standards in international or multi-entity environments.
• Experience in digital assets, DeFi, or fintech, with hands-on exposure to crypto accounting and wallet-level reconciliations.
• Proficiency with relevant ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite), digital asset platforms (e.g., Bitwave), and blockchain explorers (e.g., Etherscan, Snowtrace).
• Excellent documentation, organizational, and communication skills. Your work should speak clearly, even when you’re not in the room.
• High degree of independence, reliability, and attention to detail, and comfort in operating with speed, within ambiguity, and changing priorities in a startup-like setting.
• Experience owning year-end audits or leading external audit engagements, preferably in a high-growth or multi-entity environment.
• Ability to apply accounting judgment in novel or ambiguous situations, especially in emerging or poorly defined crypto scenarios.
• Proactive mindset toward/experience with automation and emerging tools (including AI) to eliminate manual work, surface anomalies, and enhance team leverage.

Cultural Expectations

We operate at the intersection of finance and decentralization, where clarity, precision, and urgency are of paramount importance. Success in this role requires:

• Collaborate & Drive Vision: Work highly collaboratively with the rest of the team, consistently and relentlessly moving towards the macro Avalanche Foundation objectives in every decision/action.
• Ownership: Take full responsibility for outcomes and drive tasks to completion with autonomy and accountability.
• High-Velocity Execution: Move fast without sacrificing accuracy. Decision-readiness is the standard.
• Solution-Oriented Thinking: Identify issues early and proactively develop sound solutions.
• Reliability: In high-stakes situations (ie. audits, month end, and board deadlines) be the person others can count on.
• Raising the Bar: Proactively assess how things work today and build what they need to become. You don’t wait for volume to break the system before fixing it.
• Energy & Passion: Bring the appropriate level of intensity and initiative to every task. Self-starter who gets into the weeds, solves complex problems, and elevates those around them.
• Crypto Fluency: Comfortable operating in on-chain systems, scanning contracts, and working with unfamiliar token structures. Don’t just ‘survive’ in crypto complexity— thrive in it.

Why Join Us?

• Do Work That Matters: This role is not just about numbers, but it’s about playing a crucial part in the Foundation's mission and ensuring the trust of our global community.
• Be at the Forefront: Apply your accounting expertise to cutting-edge blockchain activity, shaping the future of finance and technology. Be part of a transformative movement in digital finance.
• Shape the Financial Backbone: Play a foundational role in building scalable, best-in-class accounting systems that underpin one of the most innovative ecosystems.
• Be a Trusted Steward: Help uphold transparency and integrity in token flows, ecosystem funding, and protocol operations.
• Competitive Compensation: Strong salary & benefits, discretionary performance-based bonuses, and token plan participation.