Accounting Intern

🏢 Coinbase · 📍 Hybrid - New York, NY · 💼 hybrid

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.

This is a 12-week internship during summer 2027.

As an Accounting Intern, you'll join the Accounting team within Finance and get hands-on experience across a wide range of accounting operations. You'll collaborate with teams like Tax, FP&A, Treasury, and Source-to-Pay to support day-to-day processes, month/quarter-end close, and accounting transformation projects. You'll contribute real work from balance sheet reconciliations to system implementations, gaining exposure across multiple accounting functions and international stakeholders.

What you'll do:

Prepare assigned balance sheet reconciliations, journal entries, and supporting schedules for month-end close cycles with guidance and review from Accounting team members
Collaborate across Global GL Operations, Revenue Accounting, Digital Asset Inventory Accounting, and Capital Markets/Prime Financing Accounting, working with US and international stakeholders
Contribute to critical accounting projects such as new system logic implementations, process enhancements, or product launches
Support internal and external audits by preparing documentation, including non-US subsidiary statutory financial statements
Maintain process documentation and ensure adherence to internal controls, policies, and procedures throughout all assigned workstreams

Required Skills and Experience:

Currently pursuing a BA/BS degree in Accounting or a related field with foundational knowledge o

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Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

The bar focuses on uncompromising cryptographic security, extreme ownership under regulatory ambiguity, and the 'Topgrading' performance standard.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Hand-waving security edge cases or treating compliance and KYC/AML as mere bureaucracy
2. Failing the intense cultural alignment and values interview (e.g., 'Act Like an Owner')
3. Inability to defend architectural decisions against adversarial threat models

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I operate with extreme ownership to build secure, frictionless financial infrastructure that brings economic freedom to the world.

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