Head of Tax Information Reporting

🔥 17 minutes ago

🇪🇺 Europe – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💰 Tax

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OKX

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2017

₿ Crypto

🌐 Web 3

💳 Fintech

Crypto • Web 3 • Fintech

OKX is a cryptocurrency exchange offering a comprehensive suite of trading solutions for both retail and institutional investors. The platform facilitates buying, selling, and trading of various cryptocurrencies with low fees, powerful tools like trading bots, and deep liquidity markets. OKX provides services such as quick crypto conversion, a liquid marketplace, and managed trading. It serves institutional traders with an advanced API connectivity, historical market data, and a robust OTC liquidity network. The company aims to ease the crypto trading and buying process, even integrating with Web3 technologies and offering educational resources for new users.

📋 Description

• Build and run OKX's global tax information reporting function covering CARF, DAC8, CRS 2.0, FATCA, and US Form 1099-DA across multiple reporting entities and a large global user base. • Own the end-to-end reporting cycle: population definition, self-certification coverage, data extraction and reconciliation, file production, QA, filing, corrections, and tax authority queries. • Define and own the data specification feeding the tax platform vendor; work with Product and Data Engineering to build and test the pipeline. • Build and run the QA framework, including source reconciliation, OECD XML schema validation, self-certification reasonableness checks, and cross-entity consistency checks. • Manage the tax platform vendor, including contract scope, delivery calendar, test cycles, output validation, issue resolution, and annual renewal decisions. • Set group reporting policy and interpret regimes for reportable crypto-assets, transfers to unhosted wallets, staking and reward income, retail payment thresholds, residency tie-breakers, and TIN rules. • Own global tax self-certification design in onboarding, including validation rules, refresh triggers, and backlog remediation for existing users. • Define restrictions for undocumented accounts under DAC8 and CARF, including reason codes and customer communications. • Maintain entity readiness tracking for enactment, registration, self-certification coverage, and deadlines; report weekly to the CCO and monthly to the CARF steering committee. • Build a small senior team, coordinate and train local compliance and entity leads, and work with Product, Data Engineering, Finance Operations, Group Tax, Legal, Data Privacy, and local entity leads. • Support independent testing by Compliance Monitoring, Risk, and Internal Audit, and support tax authority examinations with complete, reproducible records.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years 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 exchange or wallet transaction data, multiple legal entities, and users across many jurisdictions; this is required. • Ability to write SQL, define data specifications for engineers, reconcile large transaction datasets to a ledger, identify discrepancies, and 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, and XML schemas used for exchange. • Experience managing a tax reporting vendor or reporting platform, including scoping, testing, and delivery-calendar management. • Experience building a function from a small base, including writing policy, designing controls, hiring a team, and running the first cycle. • Ability to explain data and tax issues to executives, engineers, and local compliance officers, and run a steering committee. • Judgment on when to escalate, comfort working across US, EU, and Asia time zones, and a record of meeting hard filing deadlines. • CPA, chartered tax adviser, or equivalent, or a degree in data science, computer science, or accounting — nice to have. • Experience with US Form 1099-DA or 1099-B production, backup withholding, or Qualified Intermediary reporting — nice to have. • Experience with the DAC8 60-day account restriction process or equivalent undocumented account remediation at scale — nice to have. • Familiarity with GDPR requirements for sharing customer data with tax authorities, including data protection impact assessments — nice to have. • Python or similar scripting for data validation, and experience with data warehouse tools such as Databricks — nice to have. • Experience working inside a Three Lines Model, including supporting second-line monitoring and Internal Audit — nice to have.

🏖️ Benefits

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

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