Senior Tax Manager

About Elwood

We have built a digital asset trading infrastructure for institutional investors. Our seamless end-to-end platform connects to global crypto exchanges, custodians, and liquidity providers.

Built by industry experts with decades of combined experience in investment management and digital technology, Elwood provides market infrastructure at scale, enabling financial institutions, neobanks, and corporations to access digital asset markets quickly and efficiently.

Job Description

Elwood is seeking a Senior Tax Manager to join our Legal team in London or Jersey. As part of the role, the individual will have broad responsibilities for both UK and non-UK tax matters, as outlined below. The role requires the individual to work closely with internal members of staff and external professional advisors.

Responsibilities:

Tax compliance:

• UK Corporation tax return and tax disclosure preparation
• UK Partnership tax return preparation
• US tax compliance
• R&D claim assistance
• Preparation of annual partnership statements for UK LLP members and provision of any relevant tax disclosure notes to help file UK Self-Assessment tax returns

Employer related filings:

• PSA filing
• Employment Related Securities filings
• Employee share option plan – oversee relevant filings are made as required for all applicable Elwood entities, across multiple jurisdictions

Ad hoc Tax advisory:

• Respond to ad-hoc tax queries relating to corporate, employment, indirect and direct fund tax matters, liaising with professional advisers as necessary
• VAT
• Transfer Pricing
• Global mobility queries
• Restructuring
• IR35
• US tax queries
• Keep on top of relevant updates/changes in tax legislation
• FATCA/CRS filings
• Taxable benefit queries
• Review corporate and commercial agreements from a tax perspective

Qualifications / Knowledge

• 4+ years PQE
• Relevant accounting / tax qualification (ACA or equivalent)
• Financial services / Investment management experience
• Exposure to LLP / partnership tax matters (desirable)
• UK and international tax experience
• Good IT skills, especially Excel
• US tax knowledge and/or experience
• Employment tax / IR35 knowledge and / or experience (Desirable)
• Proactive, self-motivated and a team player
• Detail-oriented with the ability to make quick and accurate decisions in a fast-paced environment
• Motivation to succeed and deliver results in line with expectations
• Ability to understand challenging problems, find solutions and drive process improvement

Why Elwood?

• Join one of the fastest growing FinTech companies and help shape the future of finance
• A startup with deep financial backing and a strong market presence
• Our platform is enabling institutional access to the most exciting growth opportunity in Finance
• Work with a modern technology stack and help solve high impact problems
• Strong client focused team with a diverse background
• We’re a Global company and have offices in London, Jersey, New York & Singapore
• Competitive compensation package
• A hybrid mode of working in office and working from home