Senior Tax Counsel

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Coinbase has built the world's leading compliant cryptocurrency platform serving over 30 million accounts in more than 100 countries. With multiple successful products, and our vocal advocacy for blockchain technology, we have played a major part in mainstream awareness and adoption of cryptocurrency. We are proud to offer an entire suite of products that are helping build the cryptoeconomy and increase economic freedom around the world.

There are a few things we look for across all hires we make at Coinbase, regardless of role or team. First, we look for signals that a candidate will thrive in a culture like ours, where we default to trust, embrace feedback, disrupt ourselves, and expect sustained high performance because we play as a championship team. Second, we expect all employees to commit to our mission-focused approach to our work. Finally, we seek people with the desire and capacity to build and share expertise in the frontier technologies of crypto and blockchain, in whatever way is most relevant to their role.

The Coinbase tax team is focused on ensuring that Coinbase complies with all of its tax obligations in all of our global operations and for tax planning to ensure an optimal and efficient tax structure. The Senior Tax Counsel will be an integral member of the tax team working in coordination with the greater Coinbase financial, legal, operations and product teams to support Coinbase’s growth.  

What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties):

  • Work with Tax, Finance, Legal and Product teams on tax planning initiatives
  • Work with Tax, Finance, Legal and Product teams on transfer pricing and intercompany arrangements
  • Work on the tax aspects related to crypto assets
  • Work with legal on tax aspects related to crypto assets
  • Work with Corp Dev on M&A and investments in new ventures
  • Work on representation of Coinbase in tax audits, exams and controversy
  • Assess potential risk related to tax aspects of Coinbase’s business
  • Drafting guidance and protocols on tax for internal use
  • Working on customer communications related to tax
  • Execution, maintenance and constant improvement of tax processes and controls 
  • Partnering with the greater Coinbase tax and finance teams to ensure full compliance with all laws and regulations

What we look for in you (ie. job requirements):

  • 10+ years of tax experience in Big 4, law firm and/or industry

Nice to haves:

  • LLM in Tax
  • Audit and exam experience
  • Government (IRS, Treasury, OECD) experience
  • Broad based technical tax experience, ideally with a focus on financial services
  • Exposure to US international tax concepts of Subpart F, foreign tax credits, GILTI, FDII and BEAT
  • Experience working in teams and collaborating across different business and professional disciplines



Commitment to Equal Opportunity

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