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Kalshi · New York Office · On-site

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About Kalshi

Backed by Sequoia, Y Combinator and a16z.

About the role

Own federal, state, indirect, and international tax matters across Kalshi's entities Oversee federal consolidated and multistate income tax compliance and manage relationships with external tax preparers

What they're looking for

  • 10–15 years of progressive tax experience in public accounting, industry, or a combination of both
  • Active US CPA
  • Deep corporate income tax expertise with hands-on ASC 740 experience in a PCAOB-audited environment
  • Strong multistate and SALT experience, including meaningful exposure to tax audits, examinations, or controversy
  • Experience operating in complex, transaction-heavy businesses, financial services, fintech, exchanges, or similar environments are particularly relevant
  • The ability to independently develop and defend tax positions where precedent may be limited or evolving
More about this role

Kalshi has defined a new category: prediction markets. Kalshi allows people to trade on the outcome of any events and turn any question about the future into a financial asset. Kalshi fought for years and legalized prediction markets in the US for the first time in history, is currently the fastest growing financial market in America, and has thousands of markets across politics, economics, financials, weather, tech, AI, culture and more.

We believe prediction markets have the potential to be the largest financial market because they turn anything into a financial position.

Our vision: well… build the largest financial market on the planet.

Our mission: bring more truth to the world through the power of markets.

Our culture is simple: we hire really talented people, work really hard, and enjoy the climb. We are looking for ambitious and exceptional people to join our (relatively small) team to help us build the next generation of financial markets.

As Kalshi scales, we are looking for an experienced tax professional to build and own the tax function across the company.

You will own federal and state income tax compliance, state tax examinations, ASC 740 provision support, excise...

Read the full posting on Kalshi's site ↗

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