Senior Indirect Tax and Pension Compliance Specialist

About the Company
Our client is a large automotive organization operating in Canada.
They are looking for a Senior Indirect Tax and Pension Compliance Specialist to join their team!

Why Work Here
Senior level role with real ownership and accountability     Broad scope across indirect tax and pension compliance/accounting     High visibility with senior leadership and regulators     Stable, well-structured environment with long-term career runway     Collaborative team       About the Opportunity
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     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)     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 findings to confirm validity     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 TCI compliance record       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 TCI 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 Customer Billing 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 the company’s 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       Commodity Sales Tax Projects
Interact with external sales tax consultants on periodic sales tax recovery reviews     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)     Other duties as required       About You
University degree in Business/Accounting CPA Accounting Designation     Ideally completion of CPA In-depth GST/HST Program (within past 5 years)     5 years post designation experience in Canadian indirect tax compliance…