Head of Tax Information Reporting

Overview

This role involves building and running a global tax information reporting function supporting reporting obligations including the OECD Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF), the EU’s DAC8 directive, the amended Common Reporting Standard (CRS 2.0), FATCA, and US Form 1099-DA. Annual reporting is required across the EU, Brazil, and other CARF jurisdictions.

The work is largely data-focused: extracting the right user, transaction, and balance data from the platform, reconciling it, and producing accurate filings.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end CARF, DAC8, CRS 2.0, FATCA, and 1099-DA reporting cycle for every entity in scope, including:
  • Population definition and self-certification coverage
  • Data extraction and reconciliation
  • File production, QA, filing, corrections, and tax authority queries
• Define and own the data specification that feeds the tax platform vendor, including:
  • Which users, transactions, and balances are included
  • How data is aggregated by user and jurisdiction
  • Reconciliation rules to the ledger
  • Work with Product and Data Engineering to build and test the reporting data pipeline
• Build and run a QA framework to ensure every file is release-ready, including:
  • Reconciling output to source data
  • Validating output against the OECD XML schema and local variants
  • Sampling and running self-certification reasonableness checks
  • Running cross-entity consistency checks for users holding accounts with more than one entity
• Manage the tax platform vendor lifecycle, including:
  • Contract scope and delivery calendar
  • Test cycles and output validation
  • Issue resolution
  • Annual renewal decisions
• Set group reporting policy and interpret applicable regimes for entities in scope, covering:
  • Reportable crypto-assets
  • Transfers to unhosted wallets
  • Staking and reward income
  • Retail payment thresholds
  • Residency tie-breakers
  • TIN rules
  • Exercise independent technical judgment, supported by Legal and external tax advisers
• Own global tax self-certification design in onboarding, including:
  • Validation rules and refresh triggers
  • Backlog remediation program for existing users
  • Coordination with Compliance and Product
• Define and implement the process for restricting undocumented accounts under DAC8 and CARF, including:
  • Reason codes and customer communications
  • Automatic application in Product
  • Monitoring by the central function
• Maintain an entity-by-entity readiness tracker covering:
  • Domestic enactment
  • Registration
  • Self-certification coverage
  • Deadlines
  • Provide weekly updates to the CCO and monthly updates to the CARF steering committee
• Lead hands-on execution by building a small senior team and scaling execution through the vendor and outside advisers
• Coordinate with and train local compliance and entity leads
• Support independent testing by Compliance Monitoring, Risk, and Internal Audit
• Support tax authority examinations with complete, reproducible records

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in tax information reporting, tax operations, or regulatory data reporting at a global exchange, broker, bank, fintech, or digital asset platform, including at least 3 years leading a team
• Hands-on experience in a global, distributed digital asset business, including working with:
  • Exchange or wallet transaction data
  • Multiple legal entities
  • Users spread across many jurisdictions (required)
• Strong data skills, including ability to:
  • Write SQL
  • Define data specifications for engineers
  • Reconcile large transaction datasets to a ledger
  • Identify and resolve gaps when figures do not tie
  • Build or run data quality controls on reporting output
• Working knowledge of CARF, DAC8, CRS, and FATCA, including:
  • Due diligence rules
  • Self-certification requirements
  • Reportable transaction categories
  • XML schemas used for exchange
  • Direct CARF or DAC8 implementation experience is strongly preferred
• Experience managing a tax reporting vendor or reporting platform, including scoping, testing, and meeting a delivery calendar (vendor/platform experience is a plus)
• Experience building a function from a small base, including policy creation, controls design, hiring, and running the first cycle
• Ability to explain data and tax issues clearly to executives, engineers, and local compliance officers, and to run a steering committee
• Strong judgment on escalation, comfort working across US, EU, and Asia time zones, and a record of meeting hard filing deadlines

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with US Form 1099-DA or 1099-B production, backup withholding, or Qualified Intermediary reporting
• Experience with the DAC8 60-day account restriction process (or equivalent undocumented account remediation at scale)
• Familiarity with GDPR requirements for sharing customer data with tax authorities, including data protection impact assessments
• Python (or similar) scripting for data validation and experience with data warehouse tools such as Databricks
• Experience working within a Three Lines Model, including supporting second-line monitoring and Internal Audit
• A CPA, chartered tax adviser, or equivalent; or a degree in data science, computer science, or accounting

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package
• L&D programs and Education subsidy for employees’ growth and development
• Various team-building programs and company events

Location

Global, with coordination across US, EU, and Asia time zones.