Polymarket is hiring a Senior Accountant in Finance (New York).
About Polymarket
Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market platform. We enable individuals to express views on real-world events by trading on outcomes across politics, economics, sports, culture, and current affairs. Built as a peer-to-peer marketplace with no centralized "house," Polymarket aggregates diverse opinions into transparent, market-based probabilities that reflect collective expectations about the future.
We're growing fast: both in volume ($21B traded in 2025) and in adoption as an alternative news source. Our ambition is to become a ubiquitous beacon of truth in global media, powered by fast, reliable, and deeply technical market infrastructure.
About the Role
We're looking for a Senior Accountant to join our finance team. Reporting to the Controller, you'll be responsible for delivering timely, accurate financial reporting while building the systems, controls, and processes needed to scale with our growth. We operate at the intersection of innovation, scale, and disciplined financial execution - and this role sits at the center of it all.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes under US GAAP, ensuring accuracy and timeliness
- Perform account reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, and balance sheet reviews in close partnership with business stakeholders
- Prepare payments and payment reconciliations, and stay organized around contract management and deliverables
- Support financial reporting, external audits, and internal controls
- Maintain general ledger integrity and drive process improvements and system enhancements across ERP and automation tooling
- Collaborate on strategic projects spanning new monetization models, international expansion, product launches, and M&A support
Qualifications & Requirements
- Active CPA license (required)
- 2-6 years of progressive accounting experience at technology or high-growth internet companies; high transaction volume experience is a strong plus
- Experience spanning both early-stage startups and public companies
- Strong breadth of GAAP expertise and the ability to communicate accounting concepts clearly to non-finance stakeholders
- 2+ years of Big 4 experience strongly preferred
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
- Comfort with and curiosity about modern finance systems - crypto, Ramp, Brex, ERP, and automation tooling
- Excel fluency; SQL skills are a plus (we're happy to teach)
The ideal candidate is, thrives in fast-moving and ambiguous environments, communicates with clarity, and brings a proactive, process-oriented mindset to everything they do.
Perks & Compensation
- Competitive salary & equity
- Unlimited PTO
- Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage
- 401k match
- Hardware setup - new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories
About Polymarket
Polymarket, founded in 2020 in New York by Shayne Coplan, is the leading on-chain prediction market on Polygon, with $2B+ volume in the 2024 US election cycle. Users trade on politics, sports and culture outcomes using USDC, with transparent on-chain settlement via UMA. Backed by Founders Fund, Polymarket demonstrated product-market fit for information markets. The team moves fast, ships experiments and navigates event-driven load spikes. Polymarket is the world's premier decentralized prediction market platform, enabling users to trade on live real-world events, news, and probability markets with transparent on-chain settlement. Polymarket provides liquid, transparent probability markets where global participants express real-time consensus on economic, political, and cultural developments.