Principal - Accounting Platform

BitGo•Palo Alto, CA

4d•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 across products, legal entities, and jurisdictions is accurately reflected in balances, fees, statements, journal entries, and regulatory filings. It translates accounting requirements into scalable, auditable, self-service 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 position is offered at Senior or Principal level depending on experience, with the core scope shared by both levels. 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. Candidates may come from product management or from audit, controllership, or accounting systems. The role values a builder mindset and demonstrated delivery of tools, automation, control frameworks, or systems that other teams adopted and continued using. It requires full-time onsite work at BitGo’s Palo Alto office. The role will define and deliver shared financial-data and accounting platform capabilities, including ledger and sub-ledger integrity, reconciliation, fee and revenue calculation, client reporting, general-ledger feeds, and financial-close support. It will turn SOX and internal-control requirements into product capabilities, establish standards and interfaces for new products, asset types, entities, and acquisitions, and support regulatory reporting, books-and-records requirements, and examiner and auditor requests. It will also reduce manual effort, elapsed time, and risk in month-end and quarter-end close, and establish metrics such as reconciliation breaks, close duration, audit adjustments, manual journal volume, and time to onboard a new product. In the first two quarters, success includes documenting how major products’ financial activity reaches the general ledger and identifying manual steps and gaps; agreeing on a dated platform roadmap with finance, engineering, and compliance that accounts for external deadlines; and shipping a high-impact capability end to end that measurably reduces manual work or control risk. The role partners with finance and accounting leadership, engineering leadership, product managers across Custody, Trading, Staking, and Financing, compliance, legal, risk, internal and external audit, and commercial and client teams. It must coordinate across teams without positional authority, focus on outcomes, and build reusable platform capabilities rather than bespoke solutions.

Requirements

At least 6 years of experience building or scaling systems, platforms, tooling, or control frameworks relied on by multiple internal or external teams, including at least 3 years as the owner; typically at least 9 years for Principal.
For Principal level, experience setting strategy or standards adopted by other teams.
An 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, and understanding of how public-company obligations affect product development and delivery.
Technical credibility with engineers: ability to follow architecture discussions, pressure-test estimates, and write precise requirements for data-heavy systems.
Professional crypto or digital-asset experience is required; if professional experience is absent, passion projects demonstrating breadth and depth across digital assets may be suitable.
A writing-first approach, with clear specifications, data-flow maps, and decision documents as default work products.
Ability to coordinate across engineering, finance, and compliance without positional authority and to focus on outcomes rather than process.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with SQL and financial data pipelines.
CPA or equivalent, if not otherwise used to satisfy the accounting or finance foundation requirement.
Experience in product management, audit, controllership, or accounting systems; candidates from any of these backgrounds are considered.

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 support.
Partner with finance, internal audit, and external auditors to translate SOX and internal-control requirements into product capabilities, owning requirements, plans, and timelines for control-related builds.
Set cross-product standards, interfaces, and data contracts so new products, asset types, legal entities, and acquisitions use shared platform 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 deadlines and flag timeline risks early.
Reduce manual effort, elapsed time, and risk in month-end and quarter-end close.
Establish and track platform metrics, including reconciliation breaks, close duration, audit adjustments, manual journal volume, and time to onboard a new product.
Document 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 that incorporates audit, regulatory, and reporting deadlines.
Ship a high-impact platform capability end to end that measurably reduces manual work or control risk.
Coordinate sequencing, platform design, and tradeoffs with engineering, finance, compliance, product, audit, and client-facing teams without relying on positional authority.
Create clear specifications, data-flow maps, and decision documents as the primary written artifacts.