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U.S. Treasurer

Chicago, IL ยท On-site

$150K - $200K/yr

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How much do crypto accountant jobs pay per year?

As of Jul 12, 2026, the average yearly pay for crypto accountant in the United States is $68,326.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $53,500.00 and $78,500.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is a Crypto Accountant?

A Crypto Accountant is a professional who specializes in managing, tracking, and reporting financial transactions involving cryptocurrencies and digital assets. They ensure compliance with tax laws, provide guidance on accounting standards for crypto holdings, and help businesses or individuals accurately report their crypto-related income and expenses. As the regulatory landscape for cryptocurrencies evolves, Crypto Accountants stay updated on the latest rules and best practices to ensure their clients remain compliant and minimize risks.

What are the unique challenges a Crypto Accountant faces when reconciling digital asset transactions?

Crypto Accountants often encounter complexities such as tracking transactions across multiple wallets and exchanges, dealing with varying transaction formats, and interpreting blockchain records for accurate financial reporting. Additionally, the volatility of digital asset values and evolving regulatory requirements can make reconciliation and compliance more demanding than in traditional accounting. To succeed, Crypto Accountants must stay up-to-date with industry tools and best practices for digital asset accounting, while maintaining strong attention to detail.

What is the difference between Crypto Accountant vs Crypto Auditor?

AspectCrypto AccountantCrypto Auditor
CertificationsCPA, CMA, or equivalent; blockchain and crypto knowledgeCPA, CIA, or equivalent; focus on audit standards
Work EnvironmentAccounting firms, crypto companies, financial departmentsAudit firms, consulting firms, financial institutions
Primary ResponsibilitiesRecording crypto transactions, financial reporting, tax complianceAssessing internal controls, verifying crypto assets, compliance audits

Crypto Accountants focus on managing crypto financial records and ensuring compliance, while Crypto Auditors evaluate internal controls and verify crypto assets. Both roles require accounting certifications and work within financial or crypto industries, but their core functions differ in recording versus verifying crypto-related financial information.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a Crypto Accountant, and why are they important?

A Crypto Accountant needs a solid background in accounting principles, financial reporting, and an understanding of cryptocurrency transactions, often supported by a CPA or equivalent qualification. Familiarity with blockchain analysis tools, crypto tax software, and regulations like GAAP or IFRS as they relate to digital assets is crucial. Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, and effective communication set top performers apart in this role. These skills are vital to ensure accurate financial records, compliance with evolving regulations, and clear guidance for organizations dealing with digital assets.
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Infographic showing various Crypto Accountant job openings in the United States as of July 2026, with employment types broken down into 93% Full Time, 5% Part Time, 1% Temporary, and 1% Contract. Highlights an 83% Physical, 8% Hybrid, and 9% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $68,326 per year, or $32.8 per hour.

U.S. Treasurer

Crypto.com

Chicago, IL โ€ข On-site

$150K - $200K/yr

Full-time

Posted 25 days ago


Job description

Crypto.com is one of the worldโ€™s largest cryptocurrency and financial services platforms, founded in 2016 and serving customers across the globe. In the United States, Crypto.com operates a fully regulated derivatives business through Crypto.com \u007C Derivatives North America (formerly the North American Derivatives Exchange, or Nadex) โ€” a U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)-regulated Designated Contract Market and Derivatives Clearing Organization headquartered in Chicago โ€” together with its affiliated Futures Commission Merchant (FCM), Foris DAX FCM LLC.

This structure gives Crypto.com control over the full U.S. futures stack โ€” exchange, clearing house, and broker โ€” a regulated footprint that is rare among crypto-native firms. It places the business at the forefront of prediction markets: one of the fastest-growing and most closely watched categories in finance today, where customers trade on the outcomes of real-world events across economics, politics, sports, and culture. Customer interest and trading volumes in this space have surged, and Crypto.com is investing heavily to scale its regulated prediction-markets and derivatives business. The Treasury function sits right at the center of that growth โ€” safeguarding customer funds and ensuring the liquidity that keeps these markets running.

Role Overview

Reporting to the Director of Finance and Accounting โ€“ Americas, the U.S. Treasurer leads the treasury function for Crypto.comโ€™s U.S. and Canadian derivatives and prediction-markets entities, including the Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) and Nadex. Leading a team of four, the Treasurer owns cash and liquidity management, payments and settlement, banking relationships, custody operations, and treasury controls across multiple legal entities. This is a hands-on leadership role with a clear mandate to modernize the function through process automation and artificial intelligence (AI), operating in a highly regulated, deadline-driven environment where the continuous protection of customer funds and the sufficiency of liquidity are paramount. As one of the fastest-growing businesses in the industry, this is a rare opportunity to build and scale the treasury operations behind a rapidly expanding prediction-markets franchise.

Leadership & Team Management
  • Lead, develop, and retain a high-performing U.S. Treasury team of four โ€” setting clear goals, coaching team members, and holding the team to high standards of accuracy and accountability.
  • Set clear, measurable expectations and hold team members accountable through performance scorecards โ€” an accountability standard this role both champions and is measured against.
  • Drive team performance and build bench strength, ensuring robust backup coverage across all critical treasury functions.
  • Serve as a strategic treasury partner to senior business, Product, Trading, and Technology leadership.
  • Coordinate with global treasury counterparts on shared priorities, deadlines, and upcoming product launches.
Treasury, Cash & Liquidity Management
  • Own daily cash position monitoring across multiple legal entities, tracking balances, liquidity levels, capital requirements, and funding obligations.
  • Direct daily treasury funding transfers, ensuring timely execution, confirmed settlement, accurate tracking, and prompt escalation of issues.
  • Maintain sufficient liquidity to meet all customer and operational obligations at all times.
  • Oversee daily reconciliations across trading systems and bank accounts, ensuring reconciling items, breaks, and exceptions are investigated and resolved promptly.
  • Design and adjust flow-of-funds for new products, accounts, and banking arrangements, partnering closely with Product and Technology teams.
Banking Relationships, Settlement & Custody
  • Review and approve daily payments, wires, and vendor (accounts payable) disbursements across entities.
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for banking partners, and manage bank account opening and closure for U.S. and Canadian entities.
  • Administer banking and payment-portal access โ€” entitlements, approval limits and authorities, multi-factor authentication (MFA), periodic access reviews, and segregation of duties.
  • Oversee vault operations and custody settlement, including financial operations for trust and custody services (user administration, transaction policies, and token management) and review and approval of related invoices.
  • Manage bank-partner due-diligence requests and cross-border foreign exchange (FX) settlement.
  • Actively manage and drive down treasury-related costs โ€” including bank account analysis fees โ€” while optimizing interest income and earnings credit rate (ECR) across banking relationships.
  • Respond to operational disruptions (e.g., exchange outages) that affect settlement, coordinating across Technology and third-party partners.
Process Automation & AI
  • Champion the use of process automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to modernize treasury operations and improve efficiency, accuracy, controls, and scalability.
  • Maintain and expand existing automations, including end-of-day reconciliation and reporting send-outs, transaction review and approval tracking, and daily balance reporting by entity.
  • Define and execute the treasury automation roadmap, prioritizing high-impact opportunities across cash, settlement, reconciliation, and reporting.
Regulatory, Audit & Compliance (Critical)

This is a deadline-driven function with strict, recurring timelines for regulatory reporting. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Ensure ongoing compliance with customer-funds protection requirements and applicable National Futures Association (NFA) and CFTC obligations, including customer segregated funds (CFTC 1.20, 30.7, 22.2) and residual interest.
  • Support regulatory reporting, regulatory examinations, and internal and external audit requests across the FCM, Nadex, and related entities.
  • Manage state unclaimed-property reporting and other statutory compliance obligations.
Required Qualifications
  • Bachelorโ€™s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
  • 8+ years of progressive treasury, finance, or financial-operations experience, including at least 2โ€“3 years leading and managing teams.
  • Proven people-leadership skills, with a track record of building and driving high-performing teams.
  • Experience holding team members accountable to performance scorecards or similar structured, metrics-based performance frameworks.
  • Hands-on expertise applying process automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to finance or treasury workflows.
  • Demonstrated experience driving down treasury-related costs, including reducing bank account analysis fees and improving interest income and earnings credit rate (ECR).
  • Strong cash management, liquidity, and funding experience, ideally across multiple legal entities.
  • Experience overseeing payments and settlement operations and reconciliation controls.
  • Experience managing banking relationships and bank-account administration.
  • Experience operating in a regulated financial services environment (e.g., exchange, broker, crypto entity, futures commission merchant, or bank).
  • Strong attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy.
  • Demonstrated strong communication skills, with the ability to partner across functions and with senior stakeholders.
  • Comfortable working to strict, recurring deadlines, particularly for time-sensitive regulatory reporting.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Direct experience at a Financial Institution, Futures Commission Merchant, Designated Contract Market, clearing house, or derivatives clearing organization.
  • Working knowledge of customer segregation rules (CFTC 1.20, 30.7, 22.2) and residual interest requirements.
  • Certified Treasury Professional (CTP), Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), or Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designation.
  • Demonstrated success scaling automation and artificial intelligence (AI) within a finance or treasury function.
  • Experience with multi-entity and cross-border (U.S. and Canada) treasury operations.
  • Exposure to digital assets, custody operations, crypto markets, or prediction markets.
  • Hands-on experience with a treasury management system (TMS), advanced Microsoft Excel, and business intelligence (BI) tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI).
Work Arrangement

This is a full-time, hybrid position based in Chicago, IL, with an expectation of regular in-office presence alongside remote work.

We may use artificial intelligence tools to analyze the content of your Resume/CV against the specific requirements for the position. The purpose is to support our recruitment team in reviewing applications more effectively. These tools assist our recruitment team in their evaluation of your application by providing recommendations, but they do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans who consider the insights generated by the tools along with other relevant information. If you would like more details about how your personal information is processed, please contact us.