Job Description
Block is looking for an attorney to be a strategic advisor to help support our expansion into new markets and product offerings from a tax perspective. If hired, you will be a liaison between Block’s tax and legal teams, and collaborate with other teams across the Block global organization, including the finance and product teams, by providing practical and actionable advice. This is a great opportunity to join a growing legal team and work on unique domestic and international issues. This role will also perform research and analyses to promote Block’s international growth with respect to new market entries and product launches. As we expand our offerings, your ideas and contributions will make an immediate impact. A creative legal mind, sound judgment, and a sense of adventure are all required, as is the ability to work in both structured and unstructured environments.
You will:
Assist with tax planning efforts to support global expansion and product launches across Block’s business lines.
Perform technical research and analysis on U.S. international, federal and state tax topics, including direct and indirect tax, M&A, tax accounting, and product-related tax matters.
Support tax controversy matters, including tax exams and litigation.
Navigate uncertain tax positions in collaboration with tax and accounting teams.
Prepare memoranda to document technical positions for planning and provision purposes.
Guide Block’s business lines from a tax perspective, including Square, Cash, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD.
Work with business teams to structure, draft and review tax aspects of third-party agreements, including strategic partner and vendor arrangements.
Draft, review and maintain intercompany agreements.
Assist with deal structuring, execution, and post-acquisition integration efforts.
Support tax information reporting matters and respond to tax authority requests.
Support tax matters related to employee mobility.
Assist with special projects, including restructurings, financings, and other operational changes.
Monitor tax rule changes, perform analyses, and communicate the potential impact to Block to tax, legal and corporate development teams.
Partner with our product, business, tax, accounting, and compliance teams, as well as with external advisors on a broad range of tax planning, reporting, compliance, planning, analysis, and documentation efforts.
Develop, improve upon, and document tax‐related processes.
Manage projects with a team-oriented approach.
This role can sit in any of Block's U.S. offices, or be full-time remote from the continental United States.
Qualifications
8+ years of relevant strategic and operational tax management experience in large public company tax environment, including time with a major law firm, Big 4 accounting firm, or multinational company
Knowledge of, and experience applying, U.S. federal, state, and local tax principles, and other authorities
Understanding of indirect tax principles, including state and local sales and use tax, VAT, GST and other similar taxes
Fluency in translating legal tax concepts into applicable guidance for product, finance and other teams
A JD and active membership in at least one state bar
Tax LLM preferred
Cryptocurrency experience a plus
Additional Information
We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. _WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT WHAT WE’RE DOING TO BUILD A WORKPLACE THAT IS FAIR AND SQUARE? CHECK OUT OUR I+D PAGE. _
Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
PERKS
We want you to be well and thrive. Our global benefits package includes:
Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD54566975, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD54566975 is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.