visakhsethu

Blockchain Accounting & Finance Specialist

Finance and accounting leader with 9+ years across controllership, crypto-native accounting, and global financial operations. Owns crypto books for a Tier-1 DeFi lending protocol (Teller) processing 30k+ on-chain transactions annually across 10+ chains, and a multi-entity LATAM fintech (capa.fi) with 40k+ combined crypto and fiat transactions. Former in-house SME at Coinshift, where I helped architect the crypto-native accounting platform end-to-end and onboarded 25+ Web3 customers. Currently building ClosePilot — an AInative treasury and close cockpit for Web3 finance teams.


Experience: 9 years

Yearly salary: $80,000

Hourly rate: $60

Nationality: 🇮🇳 India

Residency: 🇮🇳 India


Experience

Subject Matter Expert, Accounting & Finance
Coinshift (Multisafe Inc.)
2024 - 2025
• In-house accounting SME during platform build; partnered with PM, Head of Engineering, and CTO to architect transaction classification, wallet reconciliation, and reporting logic that shipped to production. • Co-planned bi-weekly feature releases with Engineering; owned product testing across prod and test environments before each rollout. • Onboarded 25+ Web3 customers including DAOs and protocol foundations; led product demos alongside sales for technical-accounting prospects. • Translated US GAAP and IFRS treatment of crypto assets, multisig wallets, and on-chain treasury flows into engineering specifications.
Assistant Controller
Consero Global Solutions
2023 - 2024
• Led a team of 4 delivering monthly close, financial statements, and management reporting across a portfolio totaling $500M+ in nonprofit assets and capital projects. • Took ownership of The Bail Project (40+ US chapters, $50M corpus, donations across crypto, PayPal, Stripe, Shopify, Network for Good, Fidelity, Benevity); redesigned close in Microsoft Dynamics GP and brought it from WD14 to WD8. • Inherited two large nonprofit capital project clients with combined book size of $400M+; compressed close from WD10 to WD5–WD7. • Onboarded a new nonprofit client and shipped close on WD1–WD2 from inception. • Added a $75M+ nonprofit loan portfolio to scope in 2024; managed loan accounting and donor reporting. • Delivered EisnerAmper-led and other major audit-firm-led audits with zero material findings across the nonprofit book.
Senior Accounting Specialist
Consero Global Solutions
2019 - 2023
• Onboarded onto The Bail Project within 15 days of joining; built weekly bank and donation reconciliation, cashflow forecasting, and reporting cadence from scratch. • Managed donations across crypto, PayPal, Stripe, Shopify, Network for Good, Fidelity, and Benevity for the $50M nonprofit corpus through US lockdown periods; delivered monthly close, payroll, AP/AR, and reconciliations across multiple complex client engagements.
Audit Associate
Pratap Karan Paul & Co (PKP)
2018 - 2019
Led internal and statutory audits for a multi-entity Japanese-owned manufacturing group supplying Yamaha scooters and Kia / Hyundai vehicles.
Articled Assistant
Vishnudaya & Co Chartered Accountants
2015 - 2018
• Led statutory audits for Joy Foam Pvt Ltd (₹50 crore turnover; OEM seat supplier to Toyota Innova Crysta) FY2016–FY2018, plus nonprofits (Madras Race Club, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences) and corporates (CP Aqua Pvt Ltd, Aeons Limited); headed XBRL filings for the listed Puravankara Group across multiple entities and years. • Owned indirect tax compliance — GST, VAT, Excise, and Customs (including SAD refunds) — alongside 15CA/CB filings, personal taxation, and incorporation and operations of an India LLP from a Singapore parent. Given primary ownership of new engagement types as they emerged; trained junior articles in audit fieldwork and documentation.

Skills

accounting
crypto
finance
operations
english
hindi
kannada
malayalam
tamil