Director of Accounting

Allium makes blockchain data accurate, simple and fast
Blockchain data is hard, messy, and chaotic

When we started out in late 2021 our thesis was simple - blockchain data, despite it being public and free, was difficult to understand, clunky to access and troublesome to maintain. Answering a simple question like "Who are the biggest Ethereum token holders over time?" requires an engineering team to run their own RPC nodes, ingest the full history of the blockchain, clean the data, transform the data and finally summon a wizard to cast a complex SQL query.

Why is it so hard? Blockchains have historically been optimized for Writes (getting data onto the blockchain) and less for Reads (getting data OUT of the blockchain). This is because optimization efforts were focused on increasing transaction throughput and building fault tolerant and scalable consensus algorithms. This neglect makes it hard to get data out efficiently and reliably at scale.

To quote Tim Roughgarden, Columbia Professor, "Blockchains are (virtual) computers, not databases." They are Turing machines that support general computations, and anyone can write and deploy their own smart contract for their own use case. This nearly infinite number of use cases leads to the fragmentation of data schemas for different purposes. Standardizing these schemas requires deep domain expertise to turn esoteric technical outputs into clear information for specific concepts like tokens, NFTs, stable coins and DEXs.

Allium tames the chaos by ingesting, sanitizing, and standardizing all this data. As of this post, the data we’ve archived across 100+ blockchains is in the petabytes and growing exponentially.

This is one of the rare times in history where indexing a giant public dataset is sorely needed by all - similar to what Bloomberg did for financial data and what Google organized for public webpage data. With this indexed data, we are fortunate to support trailblazers in this industry and play some role the industry’s most exciting trends:

We serve 2 groups of customers today with the same data but different platform.
Analysts who need to answer data questions about the blockchain (think BI) and Engineers who need highly reliable data queryable in near realtime (think Application backends). Our customers include the biggest institutions Visa, Stripe, Grayscale and also the biggest crypto companies such as Phantom, Uniswap. Allium is one of the unique companies in the industry that bridge blockchain and non blockchain worlds.

Allium is hiring its first in-house Director of Accounting / Controller to manage and build the accounting function from the ground up.

You will own the integrity of our financials: driving a fast, reliable close, enforcing clean reconciliations, and making sure leadership can actually run the business off the numbers. This is not a back office scorekeeper role - you're expected to operate like an owner, design the systems, and turn accounting outputs into real operating leverage.

You'll report to the VP Finance and partner closely with Revenue Operations, GTM, and Leadership as we continue scaling and prepare for later-stage audits and financing.

Own the close and core accounting

• Run a fast, accurate monthly/quarterly/annual close across US and international entities (targeting a 5 day close).

• Own revenue recognition for SaaS, usage-based billing, and data contracts under US GAAP / ASC 606 and keep all balance sheet accounts fully reconciled and documented

• Build and enforce robust controls across quote-to-cash lifecycle (order forms, renewals, co-terms, credits, terminations)

Lead tax, payroll, and compliance

• Own coordination and review of all tax filings with external advisors: income tax, sales/use tax,…