Tax Lead / Legal Counsel

Tax Lead / Legal Counsel for a digital assets and payments company in Limassol, Cyprus. Full-time role focusing on tax structuring, compliance, and regulatory exposure.

We're Hiring: Tax Lead / Legal Counsel Location: Limassol, Cyprus Industry: Digital Assets / Payments / Electronic Money / Financial Services Type: Full-time 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.

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.