Principal - Accounting Platform

BitGo•Palo Alto, CA

4d•$230,000 - $260,000•Onsite

About The Position

BitGo is hiring for its Accounting Platform at Senior or Principal level, depending on experience. The role owns product strategy for the financial and accounting platform that ensures financial activity is accurately represented across products, legal entities, and jurisdictions. It translates accounting requirements into scalable, auditable, self-service platform capabilities used by product, engineering, finance, and compliance teams. The role is full-time onsite at BitGo’s Palo Alto office. The platform covers ledger and sub-ledger integrity, balance and activity reconciliation, fee and revenue calculation, client reporting, general-ledger feeds, and financial close. The role embeds SOX and internal-control requirements into product capabilities, sets standards and interfaces for new products, asset types, entities, and acquisitions, and supports regulatory reporting, books-and-records requirements, and audit and examiner requests. It also works to reduce manual effort, elapsed time, and risk in month-end and quarter-end close. The successful candidate may have a product-management background or come from audit, controllership, or accounting systems, but must have built and shipped tools, automation, control frameworks, or systems adopted by other teams. At Principal level, the candidate is expected to have set platform strategy, led accounting systems, or established standards adopted across teams, and to own cross-product standards and relationships with finance and audit leadership with greater independence. The role works across finance and accounting, engineering, product teams, compliance, legal, risk, internal and external audit, and commercial and client teams. Early success includes mapping how major product activity reaches the general ledger, agreeing on a dated roadmap with relevant stakeholders and external deadlines, and shipping a high-impact capability that measurably reduces manual work or control risk.

Requirements

At least 6 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.
At least 3 years as the owner of systems, platforms, tooling, or control frameworks.
An accounting or finance foundation, such as a CPA or equivalent, an accounting degree, or hands-on financial reporting, audit, controllership, or accounting-systems experience.
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, and understanding of how public-company obligations affect product development and delivery.
Professional crypto or digital-asset experience, or—if professional experience is absent—passion projects demonstrating breadth and depth across digital assets.
Technical credibility with engineers: ability to follow architecture discussions, pressure-test estimates, and write precise requirements for data-heavy systems.
A writing-first approach, with clear specifications, data-flow maps, and decision documents as default artifacts.
At Principal level, experience setting strategy or standards that other teams adopted.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with SQL and financial data pipelines.
A product-management background or experience from audit, controllership, or accounting systems; either path is considered.

Responsibilities

Own the financial data and accounting platform roadmap, including ledger and sub-ledger integrity, reconciliations, fee and revenue calculations, client reporting, general-ledger feeds, and financial close.
Translate SOX and internal-control requirements into product capabilities, owning requirements, plans, and timelines for control-related builds in coordination with the audit calendar.
Set cross-product and cross-entity platform standards, interfaces, and data contracts so new products, asset types, legal entities, and acquisitions use shared capabilities rather than bespoke 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 regulatory, audit, and reporting deadlines, and flag schedule risks early.
Improve month-end and quarter-end close by reducing manual effort, elapsed time, and risk.
Establish and monitor platform effectiveness metrics, including reconciliation breaks, close duration, audit adjustments, manual journal volume, and time to onboard a new product.
Map how major product financial activity reaches the general ledger and identify and prioritize manual steps and gaps.
Partner with finance, engineering, compliance, audit, product, commercial, and client teams to translate requirements into platform capabilities and deliver them across organizational boundaries.