Senior Accountant

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Hiring Remotely in Lisbon
Remote
Senior level
Blockchain • Machine Learning • Financial Services • Cryptocurrency
The Role
The Senior Accountant at SwissBorg will manage daily accounting operations, reconciliations, and financial close processes, focusing on both traditional and crypto-related transactions. Responsibilities include preparing general ledger entries, performing account analyses, collaborating with external accounting firms for closures, and enhancing financial processes. This role requires flexibility and attention to detail within a fast-paced startup environment.
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At SwissBorg, our mission is to build a spectrum of investment experiences that help people redefine wealth. Our app has over 790,000+ verified users, offering the best price and liquidity across 16 fiat currencies to buy 100+ cryptocurrencies. Users can earn yield, diversify their portfolios with our themed crypto bundles, and gain access to exclusive alpha investment opportunities. Our community is rapidly expanding, with more than $1.4 billion in assets held in the app and over 51,000 premium users.


Join us in shaping the future of finance, pushing the boundaries of what's possible, and transforming the way people manage their wealth. Whether you’re in Austria or Taiwan, and whether your portfolio is worth one dollar or a million, SwissBorg provides the best tools to learn about digital currencies and manage your wealth effectively.


Join the team to help revolutionise the world together!


Are you a hands-on problem solver with a solid foundation in accounting and a curiosity for the world of crypto? We have an exciting opportunity for you!


We’re looking for a proactive, detail-oriented accountant who thrives in a fast-paced, startup environment. You’ll be directly involved in daily accounting operations, reconciliations, and financial closings, working across both traditional and crypto-related transactions. While a significant portion of your work will focus on crypto accounting, some tasks will be more routine—but they are just as essential to keeping our financial operations running smoothly.


This role is not just about processing numbers—it's about taking ownership, improving processes, and contributing to the financial backbone of our company. If you enjoy solving challenges, taking initiative, and working in an innovative space, we’d love to hear from you!

What you might be doing:

  • Preparing and managing general ledger entries
  • Perform account analysis to ensure that journal entries and balances are correct 
  • Monthly, quarterly and annual closures for our all entities in collaboration with external accounting firms 
  • Monthly intercompany accounts reconciliation
  • Reconciliation of accounts and analysis on a group level
  • Participation in the annual closings and audits for all the entities of the group
  • Helping to streamline and improve financial processes—your ideas matter!
  • Assisting with internal financial controls and procedures to ensure efficiency and accuracy
  • Handling a mix of high-level accounting tasks and more routine responsibilities—not every task will be thrilling, but accuracy and consistency are key to financial integrity
  • Staying updated on best practices in both general and crypto accounting

What you might bring:

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience
  • At least 5 years of accounting experience, Crypto accounting experience is a plus
  • Demonstrate skills in Python and/or SQL coding is a plus
  • Experience with accounting software, if possible with Xero
  • Fluent in English written and spoken is a must, French is a plus
  • Thorough knowledge of general ledger accounting and account reconciliation
  • A problem-solving mindset—you don’t just follow processes, you improve them
  • Ability to work independently in a virtual global organization, take initiative, and adapt to challenges
  • Highly detail-oriented and proactive—you notice what others miss
  • Comfortable balancing crypto-heavy accounting tasks with standard financial operations

Why you should apply:


- Freedom to build the company of your dreams

- Learn with (super cool) experts in finance, engineering, AI, psychology and business

- BORG bonus based on our meritocratic system

- Flexible working hours

- 25 working days of vacation + local holidays

- We'll provide you with a MacBook and a cutting edge tech stack to help you do your best work

- Annual company and team retreats - We'd love to see you at the next one!

- Continuous learning and development opportunities


If our job description speaks to you, but you don’t feel like you meet 100% of the requirements, apply anyway! You may have skills we didn’t even know we needed.


At SwissBorg, we embrace diversity. We strongly believe that getting the best outcome requires different perspectives and backgrounds. We’re committed to openness, curiosity and creating an inclusive culture because we know that diverse teams build better products and generate better ideas. We strongly encourage applications from everyone!



Familiarising yourself with our product is crucial for anyone looking to join our team. Please make sure to test the app, explore our blog for the latest developments, and follow our Careers Page, LinkedIn, and X for regular company updates!

Top Skills

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SQL
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The Company
Lausanne
219 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

SwissBorg is democratising wealth management by making it fun, fair, and community-centric. Headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, SwissBorg has an international team of over 250 people and holds two licenses to provide Virtual Currency Exchange and Virtual Currency Wallets internationally as well as the French PSAN or DASP (digital asset service provider). We believe that blockchain technology can empower everyone to control their wealth and that this is the next step towards a world of decentralised nations, where every individual is welcome and is fairly rewarded for their contributions. SwissBorg App is a crypto wealth platform where 630k+ users buy, sell and earn on 40+ digital assets, 16 fiats, across 5 exchanges, and all in one app. By connecting to leading crypto exchanges: Binance, HitBTC, LMAX, Bitfinex and Kraken, our exclusive smart engine technology offers access to the best liquidity and rates in seconds while creating unlimited crypto/fiat trading pairs. Learn more at https://linktr.ee/SwissBorgofficial

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