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.
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: Assist with and perform detailed daily and monthly reconciliations (e.g., bank, revenue, COGS), including the rigorous investigation of variances and discrepancies.
- General Accounting Support: Provide comprehensive general accounting support, including preparing journal entries and organizing month-end close documentation.
- Analysis & Modeling: Assist with financial modeling, statistical analysis, and provide support with the budget and forecasting process.
- Reporting: Present data-driven recommendations to the finance team based on variance analysis and special project findings.
- Process Improvement: Support senior analysts in streamlining financial reporting workflows (bonus points for familiarity with tools like Python or Google Apps Script to assist in automating routine reconciliation tasks).
Requirements
- Recent graduate or in the process of completing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in finance or related field.
- Minimum GPA of 3.6.
- Completion of mid-level finance and accounting courses.
- Proficient with excel, word, and powerpoint, with a strong emphasis on data manipulation.
- Excellent attention to detail, problem-solving and analytical skills—must be comfortable diving deep into the data to find and fix discrepancies.
- Strong organization, time management and ability to meet strict reporting deadlines.
- Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
- Team player, strong interpersonal skills, and self-motivated to learn, take on operational tasks with a positive attitude, and tackle new challenges.
Skills Required
- Recent graduate or currently completing a bachelor's or master's degree in finance or a related field
- Minimum GPA of 3.6
- Completion of mid-level finance and accounting courses
- Proficiency with Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, with strong data manipulation skills
- Excellent attention to detail, problem-solving, and analytical skills
- Ability to investigate and resolve financial data discrepancies
- Strong organization and time management skills
- Ability to meet strict reporting deadlines
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
- Team-oriented, self-motivated, and willing to learn and handle operational tasks
What We Do
Founded in 2018 by professors of Yale University and Columbia University, CertiK is a pioneer in blockchain security, utilizing best-in-class AI technology to secure and monitor blockchain protocols and smart contracts. CertiK’s mission is to secure the cyber world. Starting with blockchain, CertiK applies cutting-edge innovations from academia into enterprise, enabling mission-critical applications to be built with security and correctness. CertiK is one of the fastest growing and most trusted companies in blockchain security and has become a true market leader. To date, we have collectively worked with over 1300 enterprise clients, helped secure over $90 billion worth of digital assets, and detected over 23,000 vulnerabilities in blockchain code. Our clients include leading projects such as Aave, Polygon, Binance Smart Chain, Terra, Yearn, and Chiliz. Our Q1 2021 revenues have more than quadrupled the revenue of the full 2020 year. Since Q1 2020, our team size has more than doubled, and this rate of growth will continue in 2021, creating a highly effective, remote-friendly culture with talents located worldwide. CertiK just raised over $60 million in Series B and B+ funding rounds in 2021. Our investors include top VCs like Tiger Global, Coatue Management, Shunwei Capital and Hillhouse Capital as well as industry leaders like Coinbase Ventures and Binance.
