Manager - Tax

As a Tax Manager, you will be responsible for consolidated tax provision, note disclosure and audits, and tax technology. Your goal will also be to provide leadership and mentoring of a tax analyst. Your success will be to work as part of Irving Oil’s Tax team and to help deliver on the organization’s tax reporting obligations.

What We Offer

- Work Environment – Work in our beautiful home office building with access to a fitness facility, onsite nurse, and a café

- Competitive Compensation – Including an annual bonus plan, pension plan, and parking

- Flexible Benefits Plan – in effect from day one and offers three levels of coverage to select from to meet your unique, personal needs.

- Paid Vacation – Plus an annual option to purchase additional vacation

- Wellness Support – With an annual wellness allowance, paid personal care days and a 24/7 Employee & Family Assistance Program

Your Responsibilities

- Provide management & leadership to the tax operations team; manage and deliver on the organization’s tax reporting obligations

- Prepare consolidated tax provisions and note disclosures

- Detailed review and approval of the tax provisions prepared by tax analysts

- Detailed review and approval of tax reconciliations

- Work closely with domestic and foreign tax teams on tax information and forecasts

- Prepare annualized effective tax rate and tax forecasts

- Establish productive relationships with the businesses – ensure that provisions are understood and informational requirements for provisions and compliance are met

- Analyze tax return filings are prepare book-to-return adjustments

- Quarterly communication of a complex global tax provision in an understandable manner to executive leadership

- Develop knowledge of and become a go-to person for the company’s tax provisioning software

- Monitor legislative tax developments impacting the business and effectively communicate with stakeholders

- Work with external financial auditors on quarterly and annual audits of the tax provision

- Monitoring and updating internal control procedures

- Working closely with the financial reporting and consolidations teams

- Assist and engage in audit management, strategic tax planning and other initiatives as required

Your Skills

- Strong leadership skills with the ability to mentor and lead cross functional teams

- Excellent oral and written communication skills

- Strong relationship building skills

- Excellent time management skills and able to meet multiple deadlines

- Good analytical skills

- Expert MS Excel skills; VLOOKUPS, pivot tables, formulas, etc

- Comprehensive understanding of tax budgeting and forecasting process

- Exceptional knowledge of Canadian tax laws

- Excellent knowledge of IFRS tax accounting and reporting

- Experience with Longview is an asset

Your Experience

- Post-secondary education in accounting or finance. Undergraduate degree is required

- Accounting designation is required

- Completed CICA in-depth tax program or Masters in Tax

- 5-7 years relevant work experience

- 3+ years of leadership experience

- Experience in the energy business is an asset

Irving Oil is committed to supporting a diverse and inclusive work environment. We thrive on the good energy that’s created when our people from different backgrounds, identities, cultures and experiences share their unique perspectives. Diversity is key to our success and inclusion is everyone’s responsibility.

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