Senior Specialist - Taxation

Job Information

• Job Opening ID ZR_2199_JOB
• Industry Finance & Accounts
• Date Opened 22/06/2026
• Job Type Full time
• City Dubai
• Province -
• Country United Arab Emirates
• Postal Code -

Job Description

Most tax professionals manage filings. We need someone who rewires how a global fintech handles tax across jurisdictions—while the rules keep changing, the business keeps expanding, and manual processes keep getting replaced by systems that actually scale.

This is an Individual Contributor role. You’ll lead through deep technical expertise and cross-functional influence, not people management.

Why This Matters

Deriv’s mission is Trading for Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime. Millions of traders, across dozens of jurisdictions, around the clock. Real money, real regulations, real consequences.

Global trading means transactions in multiple currencies, regulatory regimes, and time zones—continuously. Tax compliance can’t bottleneck on manual processes. Transfer pricing can’t depend on spreadsheets that break when you add a new entity. We’re building finance operations where AI handles the repetitive work and humans focus on the judgment calls that actually matter.

Tax at Deriv isn’t a back-office function waiting for year-end. It’s a strategic capability that needs to keep pace with a business that moves fast, enters new markets regularly, and doesn’t wait for approvals.

Why Deriv

We’re in production, not planning. Finance automation is already processing real transactions at Deriv—invoice orchestration, reconciliation engines, variance detection, fraud models running continuously. You’ll join a transformation that’s underway, not one waiting for a business case.

• Full procurement-to-payment orchestration already live—requisition through reconciliation
• Document intelligence extracting and validating structured data from financial documents
• 400+ internal users on our workflow orchestration platform
• AI-enabled compliance monitoring across legal and regulatory functions

We share what we learn. Deriv<ed> is where we write about AI in production—what ships, what breaks, and what we figured out the hard way.

What You’ll Do

Own multi-jurisdiction tax compliance

• Run direct and indirect tax compliance across multiple jurisdictions. Coordinate with internal finance teams and external consultants to ensure filings, payments, and reporting land accurately and on time. When a new jurisdiction comes online—and they will—you’re the person who figures out what’s required and builds the compliance framework from scratch.

Deliver credible tax accounting

• Own tax accounting processes—current tax, deferred tax, provisions, and disclosures. Work with finance to ensure tax balances are robust, defensible, and audit-ready. When auditors question a position, your documentation and analysis should answer before you do.

Solve real tax problems for a moving business

• Research tax implications of business activities, cross-border transactions, and structural changes. Assess risks and develop solutions that are technically defensible and commercially workable. The business won’t wait for a perfect answer. You’ll make calls with incomplete information and refine as clarity emerges.

Handle transfer pricing and intercompany matters

Manage transfer pricing documentation, intercompany arrangements, and coordination with external advisors. Balance technical defensibility with practical business needs across borders.

Monitor, improve, automate

• Track tax law and regulatory developments across key regions. Identify business impact before it becomes a problem. Improve trackers, workflows, governance, and documentation standards. Use AI tools and automation to reduce manual work and raise the quality of monitoring. If you