Accountant

About the role

Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies, building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure. Circle’s platform includes the world’s largest regulated stablecoin network anchored by USDC, Circle Payments Network for global money movement, and Arc, an enterprise-grade blockchain designed to become the Economic OS for the internet. Enterprises, financial institutions, and developers use Circle to power trusted, internet-scale financial innovation. Learn more at circle.com. What You’ll Be Part Of Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow as an organization, we're expanding into some of the world's strongest jurisdictions. Speed and efficiency are motivators for our success and our employees live by our company values: High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence. We have built a flexible work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end accounting for revenue and partnership arrangements, ensuring accurate recognition, timely close, and complete disclosures across customer and partner incentives.
• Maintain and improve internal controls and reporting, partner with commercial, legal, tax, and data teams to define accounting and control requirements, and support audits.
• Identify, design, and implement AI and automation solutions — including generative models such as ChatGPT and Gemini — that reduce manual work, improve quality, and preserve human oversight, governance, and audit readiness.
• Own month-end and quarter-end close for revenue and partnerships, including subledger reviews, exceptions, journals and reconciliations.
• Analyze balance sheet and P&L movements, investigating anomalies and producing evidence-based commentary on key drivers.
• Develop understanding of commercial economics, contract terms and data flows to ensure transactions are complete and accurately reflected.
• Review customer and partner arrangements and applying ASC 606 and US GAAP to incentives, revenue sharing and non-standard terms.
• Design and implement AI-driven automation and process improvements using tools like ChatGPT and Gemini to reduce manual work while preserving human oversight and auditability.

Requirements

• 2+ years of relevant accounting or audit experience
• Professional accounting qualification (CPA, ACCA, ACA or equivalent)
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP, especially ASC 606, with hands-on experience in revenue recognition, partner incentives, variable consideration and balance sheet reconciliations
• Familiarity with generative AI models (ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.) and prompt development

Qualifications

• Experience with ERP systems and transaction subledgers (Oracle or similar) and month/quarter close activities
• Experience/familiarity with Slack, Apple MacOS and GSuite

Pay

Base Pay Range: $86,000 - $117,500