Top Finance Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Own FP&A for Platform leadership, including annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, monthly planning, reporting, and month-end variance analysis. Build financial models, analyze financial and operational data, identify trends and opportunities, and advise senior stakeholders on resource allocation and investment trade-offs. Manage large-scale OpEx budgets across multiple cost centers while partnering with Accounting and presenting recommendations during business reviews.

The Staff Accountant will prepare monthly financing entries, prepare financial reports, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ensure compliance with accounting processes.

Manage global month-end and quarter-end close processes, oversee intercompany billing and eliminations, implement SOX-compliant controls, partner on entity setups and transfer pricing, lead ERP (NetSuite) projects, and mentor accounting staff to scale finance operations for international growth.

Execute end-to-end financial crime compliance audits including scoping, testing, reporting, and remediation validation. Engage stakeholders, identify control gaps, perform root cause analysis, draft actionable recommendations, validate fixes, and apply AML and sanctions regulatory knowledge. Use data analysis (SQL preferred) and responsible generative AI to support testing and reporting in a remote-first environment.

Own credit analysis and underwriting for institutional counterparties, recommend internal ratings and risk limits, and monitor portfolio exposures. The role produces written credit memos, tracks concentration and settlement risks, analyzes asset volatility and liquidity, negotiates industry documentation, and partners with business development, operations, legal, and product teams to support Coinbase’s institutional lending and credit risk decisions.

Lead end-to-end biweekly U.S. payroll for salaried and hourly employees, manage payroll inputs and reconciliations, resolve payroll inquiries, handle equity-related payroll, partner cross-functionally, and drive automation and process improvements.

Lead end-to-end accounting for M&A and investments, including financial due diligence, purchase accounting (ASC 805), investment accounting (ASC 321/323/ASC 810), and post-close integration. Draft technical accounting memos, produce SEC disclosures and MD&A for 10-Q/10-K, ensure SOX controls, and partner with cross-functional teams and external advisors to resolve complex accounting issues.

Manage exception handling, margin and trade operations, and operational readiness for new derivatives products. Lead UAT, playbooks, monitoring frameworks, incident triage, root-cause analysis, and automation initiatives while partnering with Product, Risk, Compliance, Accounting, and Engineering to ensure scalable, regulatory-compliant processes.

Execute end-to-end operational and compliance audits: plan, perform control walkthroughs and testing, draft regulator-ready reports, track remediation, and validate fixes. Partner with Operations, Compliance, Risk, Finance, and Legal to identify control gaps, deliver risk-based recommendations, and maintain audit independence.

Lead enterprise and targeted compliance risk assessments across global entities, translating AML/CFT, sanctions, and financial-crime risks into executive-ready reports, governance materials, and actionable remediation. Partner with MLROs/CCOs, evaluate controls and residual risk, drive transaction monitoring and customer risk scoring coverage, maintain geographic risk ratings, design threat assessment frameworks, and scale workflows using AI-powered automation while ensuring human oversight.