Tax Manager

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