The Tax Manager oversees tax provisions, prepares tax filings, coordinates with global teams, handles complex tax issues, and ensures compliance with tax laws.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to the following:
- Oversee the consolidated tax provision process for the quarterly financial reporting and related tax disclosures in accordance with IFRS – IAS 12.
- Prepare and/or review Canadian corporate tax filings including T2, T106, T1134.
- Co-ordinate with our global finance teams to ensure international tax filings are accurately completed and timely filed by local tax advisors.
- Coordinate complex tax issues and prepare memos to support restructuring, technical issues, and/or filing positions.
- Assist in tax research for complex tax issues and planning assignments incorporating tax laws of multiple North American and foreign jurisdictions.
- Conduct tax due diligence as part of the M&A transaction process including identifying risks, mitigating factors, and providing overall tax structuring advice.
- Participate in the integration of new acquisitions, including roll out of tax compliance processes, corporate financial systems, reporting requirements, and governance standards.
- Keep current with the latest tax developments and issues that impact the organization such as analyzing new or changed tax legislation, court decisions, rulings, etc.
- Interface with tax authorities, including assisting in the coordination of tax audits and preparation of responses.
- Manage ad-hoc day-to-day issues as escalated by the group finance teams.
Qualifications:
- Accounting designation (CPA or equivalent)
- Post-secondary degree with a major in accounting or finance
- Minimum 5+ years of experience of tax accounting experience with a combination of accounting firm and industry experience, ideally with publicly traded, Canadian multinational company.
- Experience in the preparation and review of quarterly tax provisions under IFRS
- Experience in the preparation and review of Canadian tax returns
- Familiar with preparing basis and surplus calculations
- Completion of the CICA In-Depth tax program an asset
- Software industry experience an asset
- Strong working knowledge of computerized accounting systems (i.e. BPC, NetSuite), TaxPrep, and Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel
Top Skills
Bpc
Ifrs
Excel
NetSuite
T106
T1134
T2
Taxprep
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