Senior Indirect Tax & Pension ComplianceSpecialist

Our client, a large automotive manufacturer currently has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Indirect Tax and Pension Compliance Specialist to support our Finance and Accounting team. This is a full-time opportunity and will report to the Senior Manager, Tax, Governance and Audit.

Indirect Tax Compliance

Preparation and filing of monthly or quarterly GST/HST, QST, PST (MB, BC, SK), Excise Tax, Tire Levy, Luxury Sales Tax returns (including working papers, journal entries and payments)

Prepare annual GST/HST/QST claw back calculations (i.e. meals and entertainment, vehicle demo benefits)

Complete and file annual GST/HST returns for pension plans as well as completion of other Federal pension plan statutory filings (RC4607, RC4615, Deemed Supply, ITC claims, GST494)

Prepare and verify self-assessments of provincial sales taxes (e.g. promotional items)

Prepare monthly sales tax rebates on consumer cash incentives

Proactively seek to identify, lead, or support activities to enhance indirect tax compliance and governance

Indirect Tax Audits

Lead, defend and/or support government tax audits for sales and excise tax

Respond to audit queries on a timely basis with relevant and accurate information and support

Work with business units to obtain qualitative and quantitative information that may be required to accurately and timely respond to audit queries

Review and reconcile sales tax audit proposals to confirm validity and/or dispute proposed adjustments

Communicate audit results to senior management to communicate improvements or changes to improve compliance

Implement required changes/corrections to internal processes resulting from government tax audit findings

Conduct training to transfer knowledge to business users to improve compliance record

Audit support to Dealers (cross over issues) including providing supporting documentation and responding to auditor on technical issues

Commodity Sales Tax Advisory

Complete sales tax research and provide guidance on ad hoc sales tax questions from business units, in a verbal or written format

Review contracts for sales tax related issues and provide advice to business units or legal department, in an accurate and timely manner

Respond to sales tax related inquiries from dealers in an accurate and timely manner

Support Senior Manager Tax, Governance & Audit and Manager, Tax with sales tax advisory projects

Communicate changes to sales tax rates and/or legislation to business units and dealers

Assist business units and Procurement Dept to set up purchase orders with correct SAP sales tax coding

Provide guidance to Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable Teams to assist with SAP sales tax coding on invoices

Oversee issuance of SAP Miscellaneous Customer Billing System transaction codes to Business Units, and update SAP Customer Billing Mapping Table

Provide sales tax training and resources to Associates annually or as required

Review material transactions and contracts (working with vendors) to ensure correct sales tax treatment of items on vendor invoices e.g. annual Dealer meetings and reward trips

Maintain working relationships with Affiliates and vendors

Support IS department with sales tax related issues that arise on specific IS projects e.g. SAP system changes, Employee Expense system and other business systems

Maintenance of SAP tax codes to reflect rate changes or other statutory changes as required

Commodity Sales Tax Projects

Interact with external sales tax consultants on periodic sales tax recovery reviews to ensure advisors ae supplied with accurate data (working with IS team) and resolve questions

Coordinate with business divisions to oversee administration of ongoing sales tax projects and timely address compliance issues

Other Tax Support

Support Senior Manager Tax, Governance & Audit and Manager Tax with tax audit queries, research and responses

Support Manager, Tax with income tax compliance on ad hoc basis (e.g. taxable benefits, withholding taxes and accounting queries)

Property tax budgets and payments administration

Other duties as required

Pension Compliance and Administration Pension Liability Accounting Administration/Coordinate payment and recording of annual pension plan contributions and pension expense (working with Payroll Team)

Prepare annual pension G/L account schedules for use by F&A, payroll and external auditors

Monitoring of monthly pension plan contributions and expenses

Preparation of year-end pension accounting financial statement note for corporate statutory financial statements

Respond to external auditor’s queries related to pension liability accounting for corporation

Responsible for reporting pension related accounting items to shareholders through global reporting system on quarterly basis

Oversee preparation of annual pension plans’ statutory financial statements by external pension plan accountant including review of draft financial statements with external accountant and senior management

Oversee and co-ordinate annual pension plans’ financial statements’ year-end audit by external auditor including addressing queries, executing confirmations, and reporting audit results to senior management

Complete Pension Plans’ GST compliance (deemed supply; GST494; rebates; TANs) gf

Oversee invoice processing for pension plans (as required)

Pension Plans’ Regulatory Compliance

Responsible for ensuring annual FSCO filings (form 7s, form 8s, annual information returns, financial statement filings, tri-annual valuations, PBGFs) are completed and filed on time in co-ordination with external pension plan advisors (i.e. actuary, accountant, investment managers)

Support senior manager to implement and maintain pension plans’ governance structure including review of service providers, co-ordination of pension committee records, governance reporting (e.g. investment performance and reporting from invest. consultant and invest. mgrs.), plan monitoring

Maintenance of records retention system for confidential pension plans financial records

Co-ordinate with pension plan actuary to monitor pension legislation amendments that impact financial reporting

Support Senior Manager, Tax Governance & Audit, HR and payroll on special pension projects

Participate in the Joint Operations Subcommittee (JOSC) to report pension administration updates to subcommittee members

Support Senior Manager, Tax, Governance & Audit, Finance Subcommittee, JOSC with knowledge of pension plan financial and regulatory compliance requirements

Requirements

University degree in Business/Accounting CPA Accounting Designation

Completion of CPA In-depth GST/HST Program (within past 5+ years)

5+ years post designation experience in Canadian indirect tax compliance (sales, luxury tax & excise taxes) and advisory

Expert knowledge in GST/HST Statutory Requirements

Expert knowledge in Canadian Provincial Sales Tax Statutory Requirements (BC, MB, SK, QST)

Excellent communication, comprehension, organization and technical skills

Deadline oriented to ensure corporate compliance with statutory filing requirements with Indirect tax and Pension compliance obligations

Proficiency with SAP Hana 4 Enterprise System Strong proficiency with MS Office Suite (specifically MS Excel)

Experience with Power BI an asset

French language skills, an asset

US State Sales Tax knowledge, an asset

Additional Information: The Mason Group is committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and accessible recruitment process. We welcome applicants from all qualified candidates. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates participating in all stages of the recruitment process, in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).

This role is for an immediate vacancy, and we are actively hiring.

If you are already registered with The Mason Group, please contact your Recruiting Consultant directly with reference to job #20548.

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