Tax Consultant

Cargill; Winnipeg; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global food and agriculture company in Winnipeg is seeking a Tax Consultant. The role involves preparing tax returns, compliance activities, and developing tax solutions. Ideal candidates will have at least 2 years of experience, accounting certification, and be bilingual in French and English. This position offers an opportunity to make a significant impact in tax compliance within a large organization.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience.
• Legally entitled to work for the company in Canada.

Responsibilities

• Prepare moderately complex tax returns and related documents.
• Respond to tax inquiries and provide compliance assistance.
• Manage tax compliance projects and processes.
• Identify opportunities for tax optimization.
• Communicate tax planning solutions and conduct training sessions.

Skills

Tax compliance knowledge

SAP ERP systems

Analytical skills

Bilingual in French and English

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Chartered Professional Accountants Canada certification

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Cargill’s size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. We are a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials — from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Tax Consultant job has a dual role focusing on both indirect and direct taxes in Canada. The individual will be part of a Canadian tax and customs team. The candidate independently prepares tax forms and performs moderately complex tax research and analysis, and tax compliance activities. With limited supervision, this job develops tax solutions and advice and the resolution of legal disputes and audits.

Key Accountabilities

• TAX RETURNS & TAX FORM COMPLETION: Prepares moderately complex tax returns and prepares and reviews tax forms and related documents associated with tax compliance, including provisions, computations, estimates, and extensions.
• TAX COMPLIANCE & INQUIRY RESPONSES: Provides support to the organization's subsidiaries, joint ventures, business staff and tax department personnel by responding to moderately complex tax inquiries and tax transactions issues.
• TAX COMPLIANCE ACTIVITIES: Participates in tax compliance projects, coordinates and monitors tax, financial and compliance systems for troubleshooting, training, and data quality purposes, and oversees and completes general processes related to statutory and or generally accepted accounting principles for tax related items.
• TAX COMPLIANCE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT: Reviews and guides businesses to accurately follow compliance processes, analyzes compliance processes and or the applications used in these processes to draw conclusions and recommend improvements to increase and ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of compliance processes.
• TAX SOLUTIONS DEVELOPMENT: Identifies opportunities and provides recommendations to optimize the organization's tax liabilities and risks and implements moderately complex tax planning ideas and process improvement initiatives, including objectives applicable to corporate and capital structure, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures, funding, trading and risk management, trade flow and supply chains, applying key tax attributes.
• TAX COUNSEL: Communicates with and provides advice to business staff and managers, including details around implementation of tax planning solutions and trainings, and facilitates moderately complex discrete or specialized tax training sessions for colleagues.
• TAX RESEARCH & ANALYSIS: Conducts moderately complex tax related research and analysis for the purpose of completing tax compliance responsibilities.
• AUDITS CONDUCTION & LEGAL DISPUTES RESOLUTION: Develops responses to moderately complex audits and information requests from external taxing authorities for verification from senior team members, retrieves information for senior team members to verify in response to moderate risk audits and information requests from external tax authorities, and handles correspondence with external revenue bodies and or inquiries from taxing authorities.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience.
• Diploma/certificate or Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Chartered Professional Accountants Canada certification (or equivalent- i.e. US accounting designation or other accounting designation).
• Must be legally entitled to work for Cargill in Canada

Preferred Qualifications

• A working knowledge of SAP ERP systems and the ability to run reports and extract data along with experience in using Microsoft Office to analyze data extracts
• Experience with indirect tax research and filings related to GST, HST, QST and PST for MB, SK and B.C.
• U.S. GAAP or IFRS tax provision experience
• In-depth tax program CPA Canada or alternative taxation training
• Bilingual in French and English

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Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.