Accounting Specialist - Trading Desk

Working At Bitso

We are a diverse team that takes pride in understanding the perspectives of others. We fully embrace working remotely and we are eager to act, improve and accelerate progress inside and outside of our organization.

To drive revolutionary changes in society and make crypto useful, we delight our customers with world-class products, deep care, and intentional empathy.

Working at Bitso

We are a diverse team that takes pride in understanding the perspectives of others. We fully embrace working remotely and we are eager to act, improve and drive rapid progress inside and outside of our organization.

To drive revolutionary changes in society and make crypto useful, we delight our customers with world-class products, deep care, and intentional empathy.

Your Purpose

The candidate will be part of the Finance organization, within the accounting department. The candidate’s primary responsibility will be to manage the accounting for one of the Bitso entities. This entity engages in various types of business initiatives, including but not limited to cryptocurrency and fiat investments, OTC trading, and inter-company payments.

Therefore, in terms of knowledge, the candidate is expected to have a good understanding of accounting as well as financial investments. Besides this, the candidate must be proactive, have excellent communication skills, a sense of ownership, and a natural desire to understand and learn new things. Automation skills and prior experience in leading projects are a plus. Prior experience with cryptocurrencies is not a prerequisite; however, an understanding of staking, different staking protocols, types of blockchain, and different cryptocurrencies is beneficial.

Reports To

Accounting & Tax Manager

Who You Are

Failure to meet any of the following required qualifications could result in an automatic rejection.

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or related field.
• At least 2 years of experience in accounting.
• General understanding of financial markets is desirable.
• Fluency in Spanish and English.
• You are comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

What You Will Do

• Market Data Analysis: Analyzing market data to determine the fair value of trading positions, derivatives, and other financial instruments.
• Investment Valuations: Overseeing the entity’s investments to ensure that their valuations are updated regularly and accurately to reflect market conditions.
• Impairment Calculation and Fair Value Method: Maintaining detailed documentation and justification for impairment and fair value adjustments in accordance with IFRS accounting standards.
• End-to-end Accounting: Meticulously managing the accounting processes for our portfolios and strategies, while ensuring compliance with accounting standards such as IFRS.
• Reconciliation: Conducting reconciliations between the accounting records and trading systems or documentation to ensure accuracy.
• Active involvement in new business initiatives: You will often need to understand transaction flows, analyze them from an accounting point of view, and raise any items that might present a concern from an accounting or regulatory point of view.
• Optimize and automate operational work, such as reconciliations, journal vouchers preparations and their submissions into the ERP.
• Audit Coordination: Coordinating with external auditors to provide necessary documentation and support for the audit of financial statements.

Who We Are

With over 7 million users, Bitso is the leading cryptocurrency platform in Latin America. We are developing the cryptocurrency ecosystem in the region and enabling financial inclusion. We believe crypto is the future of finance, and we’re committed to making it useful by providing equal access to safe and intuitive financial products.

We are here to make a lasting impact on our customer’s lives and we do so by embracing our core values:

• Be Human: we delight our customers through great products, deep care and true empathy. We are humble and we take pride in understanding the views of others to help us see the full picture.
• Drive Change: we're fearless pioneers committed to unlocking the crypto revolution for humanity. We move fast, take risks and work together to drive lasting impact.
• Choose Bold Honesty: we seek the truth, especially when it’s uncomfortable, in our teams, products and business reality because that will uncover where we need to focus.
• Be An Owner: our sense of urgency makes us have a bias towards action, where we prioritize exceptionally and are wise in allocating our time to ensure we always deliver creative and innovative results.

Learn more about our culture and values.

Compensation & Benefits

At Bitso, you are taking the front seat on the edge of crypto innovation, creating the next generation of crypto-powered products.

So for those willing to commit, adapt and pioneer the most important change of the century we offer:

• Me Time program, including unlimited paid time off.
• Remote-first work environment.
• Employee Stock Option program.
• Zero trading fees through our Bitso app.
• Extended Family Leave policy: all birthing parents, non-birthing parents and adopting parents are eligible for a 4-months leave.
• Premium health, dental and life insurances in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina.
• Volunteering days.
• Monthly stipend for gym memberships, relaxation activities, sports equipment, cooking classes, books, entertainment and more.

Want to leave an undoubtedly legacy with us? Fasten your seatbelt and join this spaceship, where you will find exponential growth and the opportunity to thrive!

• These are the applicable requisites, although equivalent competencies in any of the above will also be considered.
• This role is expected to work remotely.
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