Senior Indirect Tax & Pension Compliance Specialist

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.

• 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, GST
  494)
• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Support Senior Manager…