Tax Manager

Enghouse Systems; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company in Canada is seeking a Tax Manager to ensure compliance with tax regulations and support tax planning initiatives. This role involves preparing tax returns, analyzing tax provisions, and providing strategic tax advice to enhance operational efficiency. The ideal candidate will have a CPA-CA designation and experience in multinational tax environments, contributing to the company's global operations.

Qualifications

• Minimum of two years of post-designation tax experience in a national accounting firm.
• Experience with tax provisions for multinational public entities.
• Strong time and project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Preparation of Canadian tax returns and review of foreign tax returns.
• Support tax planning initiatives and identify tax savings opportunities.
• Prepare quarterly tax provisions and tax installment calculations.

Skills

Data management

Interpersonal communication

Analytical skills

Education

CPA-CA designation

Tools

Excel

Great Plains

Prophix

Job description

Enghouse is a public software Company listed on the TSX (TSX : ENGH) with a dual-faceted strategy of growth by acquisition and organic means. The Company has a proven track record of successfully completing and integrating acquisitions and has acquired over fifty companies over the past twenty years, without ever raising external debt. The Company has the financial resources, experience and processes in place to continue to expand its operations globally through a combination of acquisitions and organic growth. The Tax Manager role is a great introduction to the Company’s global operations, acquisitions, and accounting groups and has direct exposure to the senior leadership team. This position is located in Markham, Ontario, the Company’s headquarters.

The role is focused on two primary objectives. First, ensuring the Company is meeting its tax compliance objectives regarding filing tax returns, as well as calculating and paying tax installments on a timely basis, providing support for withholding tax remittances and calculating tax provisions for quarterly public reporting. The Tax Manager will play a key role in improving the timeliness, accuracy and efficiency of the tax provision process and will look to leverage this to reduce external tax compliance fees.

Second, the role will support tax planning initiatives as directed by the Director of Taxation and Vice President Finance, on global tax initiatives designed to improve the Company’s effective tax rate and reduce cash taxes paid. Key to meeting this objective will be to identify tax savings opportunities and execute against initiatives aimed at making the Company’s operations more tax efficient on a global basis.

Specific Duties / Responsibilities :

• Preparation of Canadian tax returns, working papers, and review of foreign tax returns prepared by third party preparers.
• Review of tax accounts for foreign statutory reporting purposes
• Perform FAPI Analysis on entities as required.
• Create and update surplus calculations for foreign entities
• Review of transfer pricing policies and transfer pricing reporting
• Prepare quarterly tax provisions to support the Company’s external financial statements including drafting of all related tax disclosures and tax presentation.
• Prepare tax installment calculations for the Company’s global operations balancing cash flow with minimizing attraction of installment interest charges and penalties.
• Provide tax advice on sales contract structuring including analysis of alternative entities / countries to maximize cash flow and minimize withholding taxes.
• Provide tax support for acquisition due diligence to identify tax issues and risks related to acquired companies.
• Provide support for tax planning initiatives aimed at minimizing cash taxes paid and reducing risks associated with filing positions
• Look for opportunities to standardize, streamline and implement improvements to the tax return and provision processes.

Qualifications & Experience :

• CPA-CA designation, minimum of two years of post-designation tax experience in national accounting firm
• Strong data management skills using excel and other tools to create and work with pivot and lookup tables and advanced formulas
• Well-developed and enthusiastic interpersonal and written / verbal / visual communication skills
• Exposure to ERP’s and financial reporting tools such as Great Plains and Prophix would be an asset
• Experience with tax provisions for multinational public entities, preferably in the Technology sector, with tax and multinational exposure
• Strong time and project management skills, ability to meet tight deadlines and balance competing priorities
• Excellent ability to gather and analyze information, summarize and communicate key elements for recommendations

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.Enghouse is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without discrimination and accommodation will be provided during the hiring process upon request.