At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto.
Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital, and other offerings.
The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn.
Anchorage is looking for a seasoned tax professional who has a passion for working across multiple functions and connecting the Tax and Product worlds, with a focus on client tax information reporting across all business lines and products. This role will own the Tax/Product & Engineering relationship on an end-to end basis, serving as the Tax point of contact for all aspects of the product life cycle: design reviews, launch and operational readiness, and ensuring tax reporting requirements arising from the operation of Anchorage products/services are met. The Product & Information Reporting Tax Lead will also monitor regulatory developments and provide critical information to product build teams, as well as partner closely with regulatory, legal, and finance teams.
If you have a talent for resolving a wide range of issues in creative ways, and love to work with smart people on novel issues, we would love to meet you.
Technical Skills:
- Build and scale partnerships with Product / Engineering teams, ensuring integration of tax requirements into product design, operations and business processes, and develop efficient processes to allow for regulatory changes.
- Ensure accurate, timely client tax reporting in multiple jurisdictions and own the end to end process for 1099, FATCA and CRS compliance for all Anchorage legal entities.
- Build out the end to end process related to backup withholding including determination of applicable rates, remitting withholding tax to the IRS, reconciling withholding tax liabilities, responding to audit requests, etc.
- Document tax requirements related to all products across our business lines, working with third-party tax consultants when needed.
- Evaluate the tax impacts of complex or non-routine transactions contemplated by Anchorage, including M&A, partnerships, stock-based compensation.
Complexity and Impact of Work:
- Develop trust and effective collaboration with stakeholder groups, along with other key Finance functions, to support the company’s product and business initiatives.
- Efficiently manage tax contributions across multiple initiatives and product launches, focusing on ability to both identify pain points and design practical solutions.
Organizational Knowledge:
- Responsible for developing and managing information flow between Product and Tax Operations, keeping the team apprised of product changes, development and overall road map.
Communication and Influence:
- Maintain close connections with business and product teams to proactively address tax-related issues, help address customer feedback and develop tax efficient solutions.
- Partner with other members of the finance team to identify automation and improvement opportunities, define business requirements, and translate them into technical and operational solutions, aligned with Anchorage’s tax and business objectives.
You may be a fit for this role if you have:
- 8+ years of combined relevant experience in public-accounting or law firms and US-based multinational corporations, with at least 3 years of relevant experience in a Tax function supporting Product teams.
- Proven experience communicating complex tax and technical concepts to non-technical audiences, including varying levels of leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
- High tolerance for ambiguity, and the ability to confidently articulate clear advice and guidance to stakeholders in the face of rapidly changing facts.
- Familiarity and experience with US information reporting requirements, including compliance cycles and managing 3rd party service providers in a crypto or Fintech role.
- Knowledge of indirect tax regimes in the US and abroad, including experience with tax engines, indirect tax software. Past experience with configuration and implementation of such tools is a plus.
- Enthusiasm about leveraging emerging technologies, including AI and machine learning to enhance tax processes and data-driven decision-making.
Although not a requirement, bonus points if:
- You have experience applying generative AI or machine learning within tax or finance operations
- You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)
About Anchorage Digital: Who we are
The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in the evolving digital asset ecosystem. As a diverse team of more than 600 members, we are united in one common goal: building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy.
Anchorage Digital is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported, and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.
Anchorage Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. Anchorage Digital considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with other legal requirements. “Anchorage Digital” refers to services that are offered either through Anchorage Digital Bank National Association, an OCC-chartered national trust bank, or Anchorage Lending CA, LLC a finance lender licensed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, License No. 60DBO-11976, or Anchorage Digital Singapore Pte Ltd, a Singapore private limited company, all wholly-owned subsidiaries of Anchor Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
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