Chief Accounting Officer

3 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom CEX.IO Full time

Main tasks and responsibilities:

- Being responsible for a complete cycle accounting function for the CEX.IO group of companies
- Ensure accounting regulatory reports in Gibraltar, USA, and Lithuania locations, provide tax planning, and tax consultation (with the help of external consulting providers)
- Take ownership of external accounting audit process within Gibraltar, USA, Lithuania, and UK locations
- Identify, investigate, and analyze potential operational improvement. As appropriate, based on findings make proposals for operational changes (policy, procedures, processes, controls, etc.);
- Establish, document, and maintain adequate and effective accounting controls and policies to improve the monthly close and to ensure timely and accurate reporting, especially when dealing with crypto transactions
- Implement a system of controls over accounting transactions to minimize the risk of misstatements, malfeasance, and fraud
- Oversee the production of monthly financial statements and financial reports for management, and can explain the business reasons over the financial results
- Partners cross-functionally with Finance, Operations, HR, Legal, and other department leaders
- Manage a team of 7 accountants (a distributed team responsible for different jurisdictions);
- To compare actual results to budgeted results and provide variance explanations on a monthly basis.
- Act as the primary liaison with our external tax consultants and auditors and manage these relationships to maintain compliance and ensure due diligence readiness

**Requirements**:

- Minimum 5+ years experience, bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance or a similar discipline
- Proven track record of Accounting for companies incorporated in a holding structure
- Prior Experience in owning audit process and proven experience in cooperating with external auditors (global BIG4 auditors for Financial statement audits)
- Good knowledge of financial control;
- Deep understanding of accounting standards and regulations in the US, Gibraltar, UK, and Europe, US GAAP, IFRS, and tax regulations

**Nice to have**:

- Experience using accounting tools such as Microsoft Navision
- ACCA, CIPA, and CIMA certification
- On-hand experience with industry-specific accounting in Fintech



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