📝 DRAFT — Financial Assistant at Paxful Inc.

Financial Assistant Paxful 💼 Other ⏰ Full Time 🌍 New York City

posted 2071 days ago ✅ 8 applications

About the Job

About Us:
Paxful is the world’s largest Peer-to-Peer Bitcoin Marketplace and a universal money translator. Our mission is to enhance social justice through financial freedom worldwide. Powered by people and blockchain technology, not big banks, we offer support for a payment system that empowers merchants and ecommerce shoppers. This opens up a new market of 2 billion people who have no access to banking services, but do have the ability to buy bitcoin via one of the 300+ payment methods enabled by Paxful.

Paxful was founded in 2015, and has an established headquarters in Estonia, with additional offices in Philippines and Hong Kong. Due to rapid growth in the past year, we have recently opened a new office in NYC. Paxful is entirely bootstrapped, and we plan to continually expand to markets around the world.

We are currently growing our Finance team, and are looking for a motivated and open-minded individual who thrives in a startup environment. We have a unique office culture that embraces autonomy and gives you the freedom to grow in your role.

Role Description:
An essential part of this role is to provide administrative support for the Finance team. The Financial Assistant will perform duties such as financial reporting & forecasting, managing accounts payable, payroll and working on special projects. Our ideal candidate sees the potential of Bitcoin and has a genuine interest in cryptocurrency.
As the Financial Assistant, you will:
Review and validate all invoices before entering bills. Monitor and manage accounts payable, process payments, and correspond with clients as necessary.
Maintain reconciled bank and bitcoin wallet balances, manage all daily bitcoin transactions, and prepare daily reports. Identify, analyze, and correct questionable financial activity.
Prepare and maintain financial records using QuickBooks accounting software including: proper classification and entry of bitcoin transactions and credit card transactions.
Perform monthly reconciliations of all bitcoin wallets including: coding, classifying, and verifying transactions.
Enter approved month-end and year-end entries to assist in closing the books and records.
Create profitability models for new products, features, and ventures within the company.
Monitor department specific budges.
Perform other duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications:
Minimum of 2 years of experience as a bookkeeper, accountant, or other relatable experience.
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.
Ability to work in a fast paced environment, handle ambiguity, and shifting priorities.
Mastery with Microsoft Excel, QuickBooks, and other financial tools.
An understanding of how the Bitcoin network operates.

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience working in cryptocurrency industry in a relevant role.
Enterprise experience.

Perks:
Accessible office in the Financial District
Flexible hours
Competitive salary, with the option of payment in bitcoin
Premium covered healthcare insurance, including dental and vision
Catered lunch and dinner daily
Gym membership of your choice
Sponsored sports nutrition and health-related activities
Paid maternity/paternity leave including a special one-time bonus to support newborn
Commuter benefits
Training and professional development resources
Paid company retreats