Corporate Tax Manager

PwC; Calgary; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional services firm in Calgary, Canada, is seeking a Corporate Tax Manager to provide expert advice on tax planning and compliance for clients. The role involves managing a diverse portfolio, ensuring compliance, and mentoring a team of tax professionals. The ideal candidate will have a CPA designation and strong technical tax skills. This position offers competitive pay and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Competitive compensation package

Inclusive benefits

Flexibility programs

Qualifications

• Experience in a professional services firm or industry.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments in an organized manner.
• Proven leadership and ability to build and lead teams.

Responsibilities

• Advise clients on local and cross-border tax affairs.
• Ensure compliance and increase post-tax profits.
• Stay abreast of tax developments relevant to clients.
• Manage the client service team on a portfolio of clients.
• Coach and mentor junior tax professionals.
• Analyze complex ideas and provide meaningful recommendations.

Skills

Strong technical background in tax

Interpersonal and communication skills

Analytical capability

Business development skills

Ability to mentor junior professionals

Education

CPA (CA, CMA, or CGA) or other accounting designation

Completion of CPA In-depth Tax Course or Master of Taxation (MTax)

Job description

Line of Service

Tax

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Industry Tax Practice

Management Level

Manager

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in tax services focus on providing advice and guidance to clients on tax planning, compliance, and strategy. These individuals help businesses navigate complex tax regulations and optimise their tax positions.

Those in international tax at PwC will provide advice and guidance to clients on structuring their global tax positions. Your work will involve analysing international tax laws and regulations to develop strategies that optimise tax efficiency and minimise risks for multinational businesses.

Meaningful work you’ll be part of

As a Corporate Tax Manager, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve business issues, deliver high quality client service and operational efficiency. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Advise clients on local and cross‑border tax affairs, acting as a strategic consultant, leveraging your understanding of their business requirements and innovative tax optimization techniques. Understand client stakeholder objectives, with the ability to navigate the client’s business operations to bring ideas for tax efficiency, including reorganizations, business expansion, exits, often involving, as appropriate, a multidisciplinary tax team in a role of primary client point of contact. Improve clients’ tax functions to control risk and facilitate better decision‑making.

• Focus on tax strategy, ensuring compliance, increasing post‑tax profits, and providing application support for best corporate tax practices.

• Stay abreast of tax developments relevant to your client portfolio, proactively engaging clients in discussions to timely address tax considerations, including sharing of such experiences amongst the broader service team and colleagues.

• Work directly with a wide variety of public and private clients across multiple industries and jurisdictions to provide distinctive client service.

• Manage the client service team on a portfolio of clients, including budgeting, engagement letters, technology deployment, resource and work allocation, and billing and coordination with other PwC teams involved with client.

• Develop new skills outside of comfort zone and act to resolve issues preventing effective teamwork.

• Coach others, recognize their strengths, and encourage them to take ownership of their personal development.

• Analyze complex ideas or proposals and build a range of meaningful recommendations using multiple sources of information.

• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.

• Uphold the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct, focusing on building trusted relationships internally and with clients.

Experience and skills you’ll use to solve

• CPA (CA, CMA, or CGA) or other accounting designation is an asset.

• Completion or near completion of the CPA In‑depth Tax Course or Master of Taxation (MTax) program is an asset.

• Strong technical background and broad‑based tax skills as a result of prior experience in a professional services firm or in industry.

• A proven leader with strong business development and entrepreneurial skills who possesses exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.

• Strong analytical capability, sound business sense, and a creative mind that has earned you the reputation of providing excellence in client service.

• Ability to work effectively under pressure and manage multiple assignments in an organized manner.

• Ability to manage, develop, retain, and mentor junior tax professionals.

• Strong organizational skills and a positive attitude when working under pressure.

• Interact in a personable manner, with the ability to build and lead teams, including the coordination of both local and global subject matter experts, with an eye for managing the client’s experience.

Why you’ll love PwC

We’re inspiring and empowering our people to change the world. Powered by the latest technology, you’ll be a part of diverse teams helping public and private clients build trust and deliver sustained outcomes. This meaningful work, and our continuous development environment, will take your career to the next level. We reward your impact, and support your wellbeing, through a competitive compensation package, inclusive benefits and flexibility programs that will help you thrive in work and life.

Learn more about our Application Process and Total Rewards Package at: https://jobs-ca.pwc.com/ca/en/life-at-pwc

Commitment to Inclusion and Diversity

PwC Canada acknowledges that we work and live across Turtle Island, on the land that is now known as Canada, which are the lands of the ancestral, treaty and unceded territories of the First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples. We recognize the systemic racism, colonialism and oppression that Indigenous Peoples have experienced and still go through, and we commit to allyship and solidarity.

We are committed to providing accommodations throughout the application, interview, and employment process. If you require an accommodation to be at your best, please let us know during the application process.

For more information about inclusion and diversity at PwC Canada: https://www.pwc.com/ca/en/about-us/diversity-inclusion.html