Manager, Canadian Taxation - Montréal, Canada - Domtar

Domtar

Verified Company

Montréal, Canada

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Position title:
Manager, Canadian Taxation

Location:
Downtown Montreal (hybrid)

Reports to:
VP, Canadian Taxation

The Canadian Taxation department is responsible for ensuring Canadian tax compliance and for sharing its expertise with all of Domtar's internal departments.

As such, the Taxation department plays an active role in reducing the Company's overall tax burden and preparing the Canadian tax provision.

Reporting to the Senior Director, Taxation, your main responsibility as Manager, Canadian Taxation, will be to manage the duties involved in Canadian tax compliance while ensuring that the company meets all of its tax obligations according to the laws in effect regarding corporate Canadian taxes and the company's Canadian sales taxes.

Main Responsabilities:

Manage all aspects of the income tax compliance process including federal and provincial income tax returns, partnership information returns, foreign reporting forms and tax instalments.
Ensure all tax returns, information returns, and other required reports are submitted accurately and on time.
Responsible for the accurate tracking of tax assessments, PUC, and safe income.
Responsible for reviewing commodity tax returns and informing the responsible departments of tax law changes.
Support tax planning initiatives and cash repatriation activities.
Plan, administer, and maintain the proper software and systems to support our Canadian income tax compliance activities while optimizing the balance between efficiency and cost effectiveness.
Focus on identifying opportunities for automation and continuous improvement.
Responsible for training tax staff as needed.
Responsible for the quarterly and annual Canadian tax provision process, including current and deferred tax computations, effective tax rate reconciliations, and supporting working papers.
Identify, track, and properly account for uncertain tax positions for Canadian federal and provincial tax issues.
Manage the annual provisiontoreturn calculation, posting, and reconciliations.
Responsible for maintaining, evaluating, and executing the appropriate controls over financial reporting for Canadian income tax activities.
Manage the relationship with the external auditors.
Manage the Canadian federal and provincial income tax audits as well as the commodity tax audits.
Responsible for communicating with the tax authorities and responding to audit queries on a timely basis.
Develop issueresolution strategies where appropriate and revise/update compliance processes as necessary based on the results of audits.
Monitor and analyze tax regulatory and compliance developments and tax law changes and document its impact on the Company.
Identify and execute tax planning opportunities or support other tax planning initiatives as required to minimize the Company's tax expense and cash tax liability.
Develop relationships throughout the finance organization in order to facilitate the efficient execution of tax processes, both normal compliance and special projects.
Perform research, and analysis, and business support on significant transactions.
Support the Director Canadian Tax as needed.

Required Qualifications:

CPA designation
10+ years of corporate or public accounting tax experience with a focus on Income Tax Compliance and Tax Accounting.
Experience in dealing with external auditors as well as government tax auditors
Knowledge of Commodity Tax.
Experience utilizing tax technology for the compliance and provision process.

Profil:

Master of Taxation program or Completion of CPA Indepth Tax Course
Keep up to date with ever changing law legislations and relevant case laws
Proficiency with using and administering OneSource Tax Provision (an asset) and Taxprep software
Ability to interact and team with professionals in various functional areas to resolve complex tax issues throughout the organization.
Demonstrates excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
Demonstrates ability to provide coaching and mentoring to staff to contribute to the continuous development and success of our team.
High level of demonstrated technical proficiency with MS Office (Excel, Outlook, Word).
Experience using Longview Financial Reporting and SAP (an asset).

Critical Competencies for Success:

Demonstrates excellent communication skills, both written and verbal (English* and French)
Demonstrates successfully working independently, hands on and as a member of a team
Demonstrates organizational skills and the ability to meet (tight) deadlines and under pressure
Demonstrates leadership skills

- (*) This qualification is required since as part of this function, you will have to interact with customers, partners and/or our American subsidiaries on a recurring basis both orally and in writing._