The Financial Analyst maintains and scrubs financial records, performs bank, revenue, and crypto reconciliations, investigates variances, and supports month-end close. The role assists with financial modeling, profitability analysis, budgeting, forecasting, audit, and tax reporting. It also improves finance workflows through automation using Excel, Python, SQL, or Google Apps Script, while independently resolving discrepancies and supporting management requests.
About CertiK
Born from groundbreaking research at Columbia and Yale, CertiK has grown to become the largest Web3 security platform, combining proprietary models with comprehensive security solutions and end-to-end toolkits to support the full lifecycle of Web3 development. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York City, CertiK provides a wide range of services including smart contract audits, penetration testing, on-chain monitoring, incident response, and compliance solutions for some of the largest projects and institutions in the digital asset ecosystem.
Born from groundbreaking research at Columbia and Yale, CertiK has grown to become the largest Web3 security platform, combining proprietary models with comprehensive security solutions and end-to-end toolkits to support the full lifecycle of Web3 development. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York City, CertiK provides a wide range of services including smart contract audits, penetration testing, on-chain monitoring, incident response, and compliance solutions for some of the largest projects and institutions in the digital asset ecosystem.
About You
We are looking for a highly proactive, detail-oriented Financial Analyst with 1-2 years of professional experience to join our fast-paced finance team. In this role, you will be the backbone of the finance team, taking ownership of essential record maintenance, high-volume data scrubbing, and detailed reconciliations. This is an excellent opportunity for a driven professional to build upon their foundational skill set in corporate finance and accounting while supporting complex month-end close processes, strategic financial analysis, and workflow automation.
Responsibilities
- Data Maintenance & Record Keeping: Maintain, scrub, and organize large sets of financial records, ensuring absolute data integrity across ledgers and reporting systems.
- Reconciliations & Variance Investigation: Perform detailed weekly and monthly reconciliations (e.g., bank, revenue, crypto balance), including the rigorous investigation of variances and discrepancies.
- Pre/Post-close Preparation & Support: Assist the accounting team by organizing, reviewing, and cleaning up pre-close items, ensuring financial data is accurately prepared for the month-end close process.
- Analysis & Modeling: Assist with financial modeling, perform profitability analysis, and provide support in building and maintaining budget models and forecasting processes.
- Process Improvement & Automation: Streamline financial reporting workflows and routine reconciliation tasks by leveraging automation tools and scripts (e.g., Python, SQL, Google Apps Script, or advanced Excel macros).
- Proactive Task Management: Actively identify process gaps, discrepancies, or operational inefficiencies, and independently initiate and complete tasks to resolve them.
- Ad Hoc Tasks: Execute ad hoc tasks from senior management, investors and other external sources.
- Audit & Tax Support: Provide assistance to YE audit and tax reporting.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field, with 1-2 years of relevant professional experience.
- Solid foundational understanding of accounting principles (e.g., GAAP, double-entry bookkeeping, accruals).
- Minimum GPA of 3.6.
- Proficient with Excel with a strong emphasis on data manipulation and demonstrated hands-on experience in financial process automation.
- Highly detail-oriented with excellent problem-solving and analytical skills—must be comfortable diving deep into the data to find and fix discrepancies.
- Self-motivated and proactive: proven ability to independently identify tasks, take ownership, and drive them to completion with minimal supervision.
- Strong organization, time management, and ability to meet strict reporting deadlines.
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Team player with a positive attitude, ready to tackle new operational challenges.
Compensation
The target annual salary for this role performed in the US is $70,000 - $90,000.
The exact compensation at which this job is filled will be determined by the skills and experience of qualified candidates.
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CertiK is proud to offer medical, vision, and dental insurance, 401(k) plan with company matching, life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, HSA (with high deductible plan), FSA, and other benefits to all full-time employees, along with flexible paid time off and holidays. CertiK also offers a variable commission program for business development sales roles.
In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
CertiK is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, medical condition, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status or civil partnership/union status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, childbirth, genetic information, military and veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state or local law.
CertiK will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements.
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All CertiK employees are expected to actively support diversity on their teams, and in the Company.
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