Senior Tax Analyst, Corporate Tax

About Chainlink
Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, lending, payments, stablecoins, and more. Since inventing decentralized oracle networks, Chainlink has enabled tens of trillions in transaction value and now secures the vast majority of DeFi.

Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink’s standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, S&P Dow Jones Indices, FTSE Russell, WisdomTree, ANZ, and top protocols such as Aave, Lido, GMX and many others. Chainlink leverages a novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue from enterprise adoption is converted to LINK tokens and stored in a strategic Chainlink Reserve. Learn more at chain.link.

About The Role

The Senior Tax Analyst will play a key role in strengthening and expanding Chainlink Labs’ global tax framework, ensuring compliance, operational efficiency, and strategic alignment with our international growth. This role requires a hands-on, proactive professional who thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and takes full ownership of tax deliverables.

Your Impact:

This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute directly to the foundation of a scalable, compliant, and forward-looking tax infrastructure for a rapidly growing global technology company.

The successful candidate will support the Corporate Tax team in managing and optimising U.S. federal, state, and international tax compliance, while contributing to strategic projects. The Senior Tax Analyst will work cross-functionally with Accounting, FP&A, Treasury, and Legal to ensure accurate tax reporting, efficient cash management, and sound governance.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing global tax compliance cycles and ensuring timely filings across jurisdictions.

• Assisting in the Preparation of tax provisions, reconciliations, and documentation to support audit readiness.

• Supporting the execution of global tax planning initiatives.

• Driving efficiency in tax processes, including automation initiatives and cost reduction in tax compliance.

• Support all Transfer Pricing-related activities.

• Collaborating closely with local advisors.

• Support all tax ad-hoc requests as needed.

Key skills include:

• The individual must be a self-starter, a fast learner and take full ownership of the assigned tasks and responsibility.

• Strong organisational skills to manage deadlines and multiple projects and responsibilities in a timely and effectively.

• Willing to grow in a startup environment, open-minded, adaptable, and hard-working.

• The candidate is expected to have a strong US Federal and state tax knowledge and have experience assisting with international tax and foreign local tax.

• Have strong communication skills to effectively facilitate information flow among various cross-functional teams.

• Effective time management and prioritisation skills in managing multiple projects are essential to the success of this role.

• 5+ years of US and international tax experience with top-tier accounting/consulting firms or Blockchain/crypto companies.

• Ability to perform tax research and form opinions on US and international tax matters;

Requirements:

• Proven track record of ownership and organisation of tax compliance/reporting and tax operational processes

• Ability to prepare and maintain audit-ready tax workpapers and documentation

• Solid foundation in accounting principles, including reconciliation of tax accounts

• Experience with global tax compliance and assisting with transfer pricing workpaper/documentation

• Experience with global tax provision, process and controls

• Ability to perform tax research and prepare a summary of findings/conclusions

• Proactive, agile, and positive mindset in anticipating changes in tax priorities/tax consequences, either due to rapid changes in business mode, company structure/direction or changes in personal circumstances of the owners

• Strong ownership, accountability, and ability to prioritise multiple projects effectively

• Effective and proactive communicator and collaborator with cross-functional teams

• Ability to actively listen, capture key points accurately, and distil complex discussions into clear, organised notes that drive follow-up actions and decisions.

• Work ethic; resourcefulness and reliable/accountable

Preferred Requirements:

• Masters in Taxation, LLM, CPA

• Extensive experience in a Web3 Blockchain technology company advising on US and international tax for products and transactions

• Experience with foreign local tax

• Curiosity and adaptability to learn new tax frameworks and emerging regulatory areas (crypto, digital assets, Web3)

• Strong problem-solving mindset and openness to working in a fast-paced, evolving environment

All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based. Unless otherwise stated, we ask that you try to overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).

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