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The NEAR project is unlike anything else out there - it combines the collaborative community of an open-source project with aspects of developer platforms like Amazon's AWS. This provides a unique opportunity for a visionary Controller. You have to do it all and come back asking for more. Your role is both breadth-first and depth-first. You’ll be reporting directly to the CFO, who has ownership of a wide array of subject matters: Finance, Operations, Legal, Tax, and Regulatory, and essentially taking over as much of that responsibility as you can handle and as fast as you can learn.

You’ll:

• Own a comprehensive set of finance matters of NEAR Foundation and its subsidiaries
• Oversee financial operations: token distributions, settle invoices, track cash flows
• You will own strategic research, planning, budgeting, forecasting , and financial modelling
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and yearly reporting for management and the Foundation Council
• Complete employee and contractor compensation related tasks
• Manage the fiat and token treasury of the Foundation
• Establish best practice, design, review, and improve business processes and procedures
• Coordinate with external service providers
• Contribute to strategic projects and complete ad-hoc tasks

You have:

• Exceptional intelligence and breadth of business knowledge
• Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Economics
• 5+ years of demonstrated excellence in a high level operational/financial role
• Outstanding business judgment, analytical, and decision-making skills
• Extensive knowledge of financial accounting and reporting
• Stellar attention to detail and process orientation
• Master of spreadsheets and familiarity with spreadsheet-based coding
• You are excited by data and eager to find answers
• Excellent user of Google Sheets, Slides, and Docs
• Demonstrated passion for the blockchain/crypto space
• Proven capabilities to operate in a startup environment and fast-paced organization

We value:

• ECOSYSTEM-FIRST: always put the health and success of the ecosystem above any individual's interest.
• OPENNESS: operate transparently and consistently share knowledge to build open communities.
• PRAGMATISM OVER PERFECTION: find the right solution not the ideal solution and beat dogmatism by openly considering all ideas.
• MAKE IT FEEL SIMPLE: strive to make the complex feel simple so the technology is accessible to all.
• GROW CONSTANTLY: learn, improve and fail productively so the project and community are always becoming more effective.

About the NEAR Foundation

The NEAR Foundation is a nonprofit, non-beneficiary foundation based in Switzerland which supports community-driven innovation and the Open Web with a specific focus on the NEAR platform. The Foundation distributes grant funding into the NEAR ecosystem, coordinates governance among participants, educates people about the protocol and ensures that relationships among the community members are as strong and sustainable as the apps they build. It seeks to combine the inclusive care of a community-driven NGO with the at-scale effectiveness of a Silicon Valley startup.