Tax Lead/ Legal Counsel

What we're looking for: — Prior in-house experience at a regulated financial institution, payment institution, electronic money issuer, or digital asset business — where you were the primary tax resource rather than one of many. — Exposure to VARA, DFSA, CySEC, FSC, or FCA regulated environments from a tax structuring or compliance perspective. — Experience with crypto and digital asset tax classification questions, including: Characterisation of tokens (utility, security, payment), DeFi yield, Staking rewards, NFTs — for both entity-level tax reporting and structuring purposes. — Familiarity with economic substance requirements and their interaction with transfer pricing in low-tax jurisdictions. — Experience advising on the tax treatment of financial instruments used in prime brokerage or institutional liquidity contexts, including: CFDs, Total return swaps, Convertible loans, Repo arrangements. — Exposure to FATCA/CRS reporting obligations for financial institutions, and the interaction between automatic exchange of information frameworks and group tax positions.