Principal - Accounting Platform

BitGo•New York, NY

4d•$230,000 - $260,000•Onsite

About The Position

BitGo is hiring for its financial and accounting platform team. The role owns product strategy for the platform that ensures financial activity is accurately reflected in balances, fees, statements, journal entries, regulatory filings, and the general ledger across products, legal entities, and jurisdictions. The position translates accounting requirements into scalable, auditable, self-service platform capabilities for product, engineering, finance, and compliance teams, with particular attention to digital-asset activity such as on-chain transactions, custody, staking, tokenized assets, and settlement. The role is hired at Senior or Principal level depending on experience, with the same core scope. At Principal level, the person is expected to have previously set platform strategy, led accounting systems, or established control standards adopted by multiple teams, and to own cross-product standards and relationships with finance and audit leadership with greater independence. The role is suited to either product managers with financial compliance platform experience or professionals from audit, controllership, or accounting systems who have built tools, automation, control frameworks, or systems adopted by other teams. It is full-time onsite at BitGo’s New York, NY office.

Requirements

6 or more years of experience building or scaling systems, platforms, tooling, or control frameworks relied on by multiple internal or external teams; typically 9 or more years for Principal.
3 or more years as the owner of systems, platforms, tooling, or control frameworks.
Accounting or finance foundation, demonstrated by a CPA or equivalent, an accounting degree, or hands-on experience in financial reporting, audit, controllership, or accounting systems.
Ability to read a trial balance, follow a journal entry through a ledger, and discuss revenue recognition or reconciliation with a controller.
Experience building scalable platforms such as ledgers, billing, payments, reporting, data infrastructure, reconciliation tooling, or controls automation.
Experience in a regulated financial environment, including work with auditors, examiners, SOX controls, or control programs.
Professional crypto or digital-asset experience, or passion projects with breadth and depth across digital assets.
Ability to work effectively across engineering, finance, and compliance without positional authority.
Writing-first approach, producing clear specifications, data-flow maps, and decision documents.
For Principal level, experience setting strategy or standards that other teams adopted.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with SQL and financial data pipelines.
Experience as a product manager building financial compliance platforms.
Experience from audit, controllership, or accounting systems in which reconciliations were automated, controls were built into systems, or data models and tooling were designed with engineers.

Responsibilities

Define and deliver the financial data and accounting platform roadmap, including ledger and sub-ledger integrity, balance and activity reconciliation, fee and revenue calculation, client reporting, general-ledger feeds, and financial-close capabilities.
Partner with finance, internal audit, and external auditors to translate SOX and internal-control requirements into product capabilities; own requirements, plans, and timelines for control-related builds in alignment with the audit calendar.
Set platform standards, interfaces, and data contracts so new products, asset types, legal entities, and acquisitions integrate with shared platform capabilities rather than bespoke accounting workarounds.
Work with compliance, legal, and risk to support regulatory reporting, books-and-records requirements, and examiner and auditor requests; manage dated plans against external deadlines and flag timeline risks early.
Improve month-end and quarter-end close by reducing manual effort, elapsed time, and risk; establish measures including reconciliation breaks, close duration, audit adjustments, manual journal volume, and time to onboard a new product.
Map how major products’ financial activity reaches the general ledger, identifying and prioritizing manual steps and gaps.
Agree on a dated platform roadmap with finance, engineering, and compliance, incorporating audit, regulatory, and reporting deadlines.
Ship a high-impact platform capability end to end, such as automated reconciliation for a key product, that measurably reduces manual work or control risk.
Translate finance and accounting leadership’s requirements into platform capabilities and make the product the system of record.
Partner with engineering leadership on sequencing, platform design, and tradeoffs, and coordinate across engineering, finance, compliance, product managers, audit, commercial, and client teams.