Accounting Specialist, Digital Assets

A Career with Point72’s Finance Team

The Finance team provides a broad range financial information, advice, and services to its business partners, while adhering to the highest professional and ethical standards. The Finance team offers a dynamic environment where individuals can learn at a fast pace and are rewarded with challenging opportunities within Finance and across the Firm.

What you’ll do

In this role, you will contribute to the establishment of Point72’s digital asset accounting function, informed by your knowledge of digital asset accounting, systems, processes, controls, and best practices. You will need a collaborative mindset, excellent communication skills, a high degree of motivation, strong organizational skills, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. The target location for this role is New York City or Stamford, CT, but there may be flexibility on location provided you are willing to travel to our offices as needed.

Specifically, you will:

• Determine the appropriate accounting for various types of digital asset related transactions
• Collaborate with groups across the Firm on the implementation of new digital asset platforms and strategies
• Maintain books and records for the Firm’s digital asset legal entities, working with administrators where applicable
• Implement processes and controls to ensure accurate reporting for the Firm’s digital asset activities
• Proactively monitor trends and developments in the digital asset accounting and regulatory space and communicate updates to team, assessing and addressing impacts where applicable

What is required

We’re looking for a highly motivated person with big ideas, who wants to make an impact, and who will help drive a culture of integrity and excellence. This role requires you to serve as a strategic partner while also rolling up your sleeves and doing the work. Here’s what else you’ll need:

• 4-6 years of accounting experience
  • Preferably at least one year of direct experience working in the digital asset space with a crypto-native firm, consulting organization, asset manager, or bank
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or Business and a CPA designation
• Familiarity with digital asset accounting guidance and experience with technical accounting
• An understanding of the digital asset marketplace, opportunities, technologies, change, and innovation it provides
• Knowledge of digital asset accounting systems, administrators, and service providers
• Strong knowledge of accounting and financial reporting processes and controls
• Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Commitment to highest ethical standards

We take care of our people

We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. When you work here, we provide:

• Fully-paid health care benefits 
• Generous parental and family leave policies 
• Mental and physical wellness programs 
• Volunteer opportunities 
• Non-profit matching gift program 
• Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, minorities and the LGBT+ community 
• Tuition assistance 
• A 401(k) savings program with an employer match and more 

About Point72

Point72 Asset Management is a global firm led by Steven Cohen that invests in multiple asset classes and strategies worldwide. Resting on more than a quarter-century of investing experience, we seek to be the industry’s premier asset manager through delivering superior risk-adjusted returns, adhering to the highest ethical standards, and offering the greatest opportunities to the industry’s brightest talent. We’re inventing the future of finance by revolutionizing how we develop our people and how we use data to shape our thinking. For more information, visit www.Point72.com/working-here

The annual base salary range for this role is $100,000-150,000, which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.