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Finance Lead
Skip
Accounting & Finance
New York, USA
Posted on May 2, 2025
We are joining the Interchain Foundation, and are rebranding Skip to Interchain Inc., as we become the ICF’s main development, product, and growth subsidiary! Read the announcement to learn more.
Who we are
📌 Interchain Inc (formerly, Skip) leads development for the Cosmos Hub, ecosystem, and stack -- the leading platform for building sovereign, interoperable blockchains. We're dedicated to offering developers full-stack programmability, complete ownership of their economics, and best-in-class distribution to users everywhere.
Our mission is to build a more free, more fair internet with the Cosmos platform at the core. The best teams already build with Cosmos across every category: defi (dYdX, Osmosis, Injective), infrastructure (Babylon, Celestia, Initia), Depin/AI (Akash, Artificial Superintelligence Alliance, Allora), privacy (Nillion, Penumbra), and many more. We want to help these teams and many more help bring the values of sovereignty and decentralization to the rest of the internet by developing the Cosmos stack and hub.
We focus on hiring the core team and senior talent to work together in person in NYC to build a collaborative and supportive culture. But we’re still open to hiring best-in-class remote talent anywhere within 6 hours of the NYC timezone.
Core team member responsibilities
- Work to solve hard technical problems at the cutting edge of blockchain research alongside the founders.
- Be empowered to make bold technical and strategic decisions.
- Play a critical role in determining the people we hire, our culture, our engineering practices, and the products we ship.
How we work
- We value ambition, work ethic, and m (slope) over prestige, accomplishments, and y-intercept. - This means initiative, self development, and adaptability are non-negotiable, even for the most experienced candidates.
- We value thoughtful and contentious dialogue over siloed and unilateral decision-making.
- We value acknowledging uncertainty/weakness and seeking support over unabated confidence and solo performances.
- We’re obsessive about documenting everything, learning, and shipping as fast as possible with short feedback cycles.
Interchain Inc is committed to inclusion.
Interchain Inc. is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourages individuals from underrepresented backgrounds to apply. We believe the purpose of crypto is to expand who has agency in society, which starts at home, by empowering people with diverse gender identities, ethnic backgrounds, and life experiences within our own organization. Interchain Inc. offers dedicated mentorship to support personal growth and a bright career in crypto.
Benefits
✈️ 18 days of paid leave
🧑⚕️ Premium health insurance
🏦 Competitive regional compensation and token compensation
📁 Office space and accommodations for remote work
👉 We’re open to arranging paid work trials with potential hires because we think interviews give a very limited view of candidates and the company.
Description
Interchain Labs is seeking a Finance Lead to help us mature and scale our finance function in our mission of building an open internet. You’ll be our first finance hire, and will need to be a one-person show to ensure that the organization’s finance needs are taken care of.
This is an exciting opportunity for anyone that enjoys dropping into fast-paced environment, and leveraging their unique skillset and experience to make a major impact on the shape and future of the organization. Our mission is daunting, and you shouldn't consider joining us if you don’t like to get your hands dirty, often need hands-on support from your manager, or feel easily overwhelmed when looking at a blank canvas.
In your first 90 days
On your first days, you’ll be coordinating with external accountants and tax consultants. You’ll be setting up the tooling and internal financial infrastructure needed to improve our financial reporting both within Interchain Labs and with our parent organization, the Interchain Foundation. You’ll have full support for this work, but we’ll expect you to be able to grapple with our existing systems and make significant improvements to them.
In parallel or shortly after, you’ll be responsible for working with the executive team to define and structure a budget process for the organization, driving toward a budget that’s aligned with our strategic goals, and with clear accountabilities, autonomy, and ownership for team leads and managers.
After that, you’ll be on your way to helping us create and develop high-fidelity and up-to-date financial dashboards that we can use to derive actionable, high-leverage insights that will improve our commercial decision making.
Role Responsibilities
- Own the finance function and everything related to it.
- Ensure financial obligations are met on time.
- Provide financial visibility and insights, with internal customer needs prioritized and addressed via comprehensive, high-fidelity, up to date dashboards.
- Maintain strong and sound financial relationships, with the Interchain Foundation, banks, and auditors.
- Oversee accounting & tax compliance across jurisdictions.
- Develop and drive budget processes and financial discipline across the company.
- Manage our treasury and investments, and provide financial forecasting to support the longevity of the organization.
Qualifications
Requirements:
- MBA or Finance degree, and/or CPA
- 6+ years experience in finance and some previous experience in web3
- An understanding of US tax and compliance as well as working in Global organisations
Bonus
- Have previously stood up a Finance function