Finance Associate - Paradigm

Paradigm is a San Francisco-based investment firm focused on crypto and blockchain-related technologies across the globe.  We make investments in companies and protocols at all stages, ranging from early-stage venture financing rounds to growth equity to liquid token assets.  Paradigm was co-founded in 2018 by Matt Huang (former partner at Sequoia Capital) and Fred Ehrsam (co-founder of Coinbase), and since then we’ve been hard at work building a world-class team to support our portfolio and the crypto ecosystem globally, with the broader goal of accelerating crypto’s ability to improve people’s lives worldwide.

At Paradigm, we believe that crypto will redefine money, finance, and the internet itself. This technological revolution will have a fundamental and long-lasting impact on the global economy.  

Our portfolio is growing, and we're looking for an exceptional individual to join our small-but-mighty finance team to assist with fund accounting, portfolio data management, portfolio valuation and periodic regulatory reviews and audits. This person will help pave the path for best practices across the industry and raise the operational standards in the emerging blockchain investment sphere.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily transactions and portfolio performance metrics

• Assist with monthly NAV process

• Assist with quarterly valuation meetings 

• Coordinate financial requests with Portfolio Companies to assist with fair value

• Perform compliance review of finance policy & procedures

• Contribute to investor relations communications

• Assist with annual audit process and fund’s financial statements

• Assist Controller with tax filings (K1s, allocations, and returns)

• Assist administrators with FACTA & CRS compliance

• Contribute to regulatory filings or audits (SEC, CFTC or IRS/FTB, etc.)

Qualifications

• Significant experience with fund accounting, ideally in a complex, high-volatility space like a hedge fund or venture capital firm

• A robust foundation in accounting practices

• Facility working across departments as part of a small, agile team

• Genuine curiosity about the wide-ranging implications of blockchain technology on the way governments and financial markets operate

Attributes

• Exceptional team player

• Extreme open-mindedness

• Clear and concise communication, in both 1:1 and public settings

• Empathy toward the concerns of others, both within and outside Paradigm

• Adaptability in rapidly changing circumstances

• Highly curious; fast learnerInterest in frontier technologies and crypto markets