Alpaca Hiring for VP of Accounting Job at Fort Lauderdale, FL Full Time

We are looking forward to working with you who has a strong accounting background and has worked in the accounting team at US FINRA brokerage firms that do self-clearing or are clearing firms (or have relevant experience to that).

As Alpaca’s VP of Accounting, you will report to the CEO (Yoshi, it’s me 🙂 and will be responsible for knowing and reporting where/how much the money was and the money is across all the Alpaca entities including our FINRA brokerage entity and parent entity in the US.

You will work closely with FINOPs at our FINRA brokerage entity as well as a Controller at our parent entity to ensure that you manage the company auditing and report to the executive team. You will also work closely with the Strategy team and provide them the accurate up-to-date numbers in their hands on time so that they can do forecasting, unit economics, pricing, and hiring strategy.

Alpaca has raised more than $100 million from top investors globally to build the most developer-friendly investing infrastructure for apps and businesses globally to embed and offer Stock and Crypto investing products to their end users. For this, we build clearing, custody, and execution features of US stocks and Crypto assets.

Our company vision is to open financial services to everyone on the planet. We believe that by allowing our partners (such as fintech apps, brokerage firms, vertical SaaS, consumer apps) to build investing products to their end-users with ease, we can achieve to open financial services to 8 billion people quickly.

This also means that it is important for us to think globally and act/execute locally. How people interact with financial services is different in each culture and region. In order for us to stay empathetic to this, we made a conscious decision to operate as a fully-remote company, which allowed us to grow our team members across the globe (I am currently living in Kyoto, Japan, for example).

We want you to stay curious, be accountable, and have empathy. We have a very very fast-moving environment and are always agile in executing innovative ideas, and at the same time, as a regulated financial services company, strong accountability and discipline are very much required.

We are a team of individuals coming from diverse backgrounds and experiences. We also work fully remotely primarily on Slack and Google Hangouts. These have benefits but also come with challenges. We want you to embrace the importance of over-communication and to stay empathetic to the fellow Alpaca members that you reach out to confirm that they hear you.

We want you to have a strong accounting background and understanding of brokerage clearing and custody accounting (Series 27 is a requirement for this role). Although you are responsible for accounting at the parent entity level, there is a big portion of the US FINRA brokerage-related financial operations, and we believe that for you to be successful in this role, you need to bring in a deep understanding of brokerage clearing and custody accounting.

• You have Series 27
• You have a deep understanding of brokerage clearing and custody accounting
• You have more than 7 years of working experience in the accounting team at US FINRA brokerage firms that do self-clearing or are clearing firms or have relevant experience
• You are open-minded to changes and to new values and cultures that you encounter
• You are a team player who can help out others regardless of your direct responsibilities or organizational structures
• You are naturally curious about numbers and notice any subtle number differences and changes as well as inconsistencies
• You follow through with communicating with others and know how to clarify your communication priorities
• You are a self-starter who can gather information by reading through materials and conversation threads, and proactively reaching out to relevant people both in/outside the company
• You are a doer who can do whatever it takes (including rolling up your sleeves yourself) to stay accountable for your and your team’s responsibilities
• You believe in Alpaca’s vision of opening financial services to everyone on the planet 🙂