Head of Tax

🔥 13 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💰 Tax

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Alpaca

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201 - 500 employees

🔌 API

💳 Fintech

₿ Crypto

API • Fintech • Crypto

Alpaca is a fintech company that provides a comprehensive brokerage and trading platform through a suite of APIs. These APIs enable developers and businesses to integrate algorithmic trading, app development, and embedded investing into their services. Alpaca offers services like trading in US stocks, ETFs, and cryptocurrency with options for local currency transactions. The company is recognized for its cyber security practices and is a member of FINRA and SIPC. Alpaca is ideal for fintech startups, broker-dealers, hedge funds, and other financial services looking to build sophisticated trading applications and platforms with minimal friction through their well-documented Broker API.

📋 Description

• Own the company’s global tax function, including tax strategy, governance, risk management, compliance, reporting, and planning • Manage U.S. federal, state, and international income tax compliance, including foreign reporting requirements and coordination of local-country filings • Oversee indirect tax and withholding obligations, including sales and use tax, VAT/GST, and cross-border withholding taxes • Own the annual and interim tax provision under U.S. GAAP and ASC 740, including deferred taxes, valuation allowances, uncertain tax positions, and related financial statement disclosures • Develop and maintain a global tax compliance calendar, internal controls, policies, and supporting documentation • Lead tax planning related to legal entity structuring, capitalization, intercompany arrangements, repatriation, and expansion into new markets • Develop and maintain transfer pricing policies, intercompany agreements, documentation, and implementation across international entities • Assess permanent establishment, nexus, tax residency, and other risks arising from global operations and workforce • Partner with Finance, Legal, Treasury, Product, and business operations teams on contracts, new products, regulated financial-services activities, and operational decisions • Support M&A tax due diligence, transaction structuring, purchase accounting, and post-acquisition integration • Manage tax authority inquiries, examinations, notices, and disputes • Monitor legislative and regulatory tax developments and communicate their impact to leadership • Lead tax forecasting and cash-tax planning with FP&A and Treasury • Oversee tax residency certificates, treaty-relief documentation, and related filings, including Forms 8802 and 6166 • Manage external tax advisors, including scope, budget, deliverables, and service quality • Improve tax efficiency, controls, data quality, processes, and automation • Build and develop the internal tax function as the company expands

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field • CPA and/or Master’s in Taxation strongly preferred • 8-10+ years of relevant tax experience, ideally combining public accounting and in-house corporate tax experience • Strong knowledge of U.S. federal and state taxation, with meaningful experience managing international tax matters and foreign entity compliance • Strong knowledge of ASC 740 and demonstrated experience owning the tax provision process, including deferred taxes, valuation allowances, uncertain tax positions, and financial statement disclosures • Experience overseeing tax matters across multiple legal entities and jurisdictions • Experience with transfer pricing, intercompany arrangements, indirect taxes, withholding taxes, and international expansion • Demonstrated ability to develop and implement scalable tax policies, processes, and internal controls • Experience managing external tax advisors, audits, tax authority matters, and competing filing deadlines • Strong analytical and project-management skills, with exceptional attention to detail and the ability to prioritize multiple complex workstreams • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to explain complex tax matters clearly to non-tax stakeholders and senior leadership • A hands-on, collaborative approach and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, high-growth environment • Experience within a multinational fintech, financial-services, brokerage, or digital-assets business is strongly preferred • Experience supporting M&A transactions and post-acquisition integration is preferred • Public-company, pre-IPO, or SOX-readiness experience is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options • Health Benefits • New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500 • Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card