Role Overview

Reporting to the Director, Global Tax Reporting & Strategy, and with dotted-line reporting-relationship to the Manager, Tax Projects & Planning, and the Manager, Canadian Tax Compliance, the Corporate Tax Lead is accountable for contributing to minimizing corporate tax costs by effective tax compliance, including the timely review, preparation and filing of tax returns, handling of government audits and appeal of tax assessments, management of tax installments and balances, financial reporting relating to taxes, researching tax matters and providing timely informed advice. 

The Corporate Tax Lead will be assigned the principal reporting entity files within the Teck Canadian group.

Key Responsibilities

• Be a courageous safety leader, adhere to and sponsor safety and environmental rules and procedures.
• Reduces tax compliance expenses by making sure corporate tax, mining tax, and information returns, including special tax elections, are filed promptly. Ensures tax payments and installments are submitted on time. Reviews and suggests options for tax alternatives, such as discretionary deduction claims and tax incentives, to improve corporate tax outcomes.
• Contributes to lower tax costs by managing the timely and completeness of reporting of required information by various earning centers and head office departments to satisfy the accountabilities described in the item above and by being adaptable to those centres and departments when informed tax advice is requested.
• Completes quarterly legal entity current and deferred tax provisions and reconciles balance sheet tax accounts, accurately and on a timely basis; contributes to the completion of the quarterly consolidated current and deferred tax provisions, and other tax related information for financial reporting.
• Develops, maintains, and continuously improves models for tax provisions, tax returns and forecasting purposes with emphasis on automation.
• Identifies tax planning and issue resolution opportunities through the ongoing review and research of tax positions and recommending effective courses of action.
• Leads all aspects of government tax audits, reassessments, and objections.
• Provides effective cash management of tax balances with Government authorities, tax refunds, and payments to minimize interest costs.
• Provides direct and indirect tax advisory (e.g. Sales Tax, SRED, Transfer Pricing, Global Mobility, Employee Benefits, etc.) to other head office departments.
• Monitors changes in Canadian tax laws, judicial interpretations, government administrative policies and accounting standards and evaluates their impact on corporate tax filings and tax provisions.
• Supervises and reviews the work of other Tax staff members as assigned from time to time.
• Performs special assignments, including analysis and presentation of findings in a concise manner, as requested from time to time.
• Provides limited temporary vacation/leave coverage for other members of the Tax group.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 seasons of corporate tax compliance and/or provision experience.
• Canadian Certified Professional Accountant (CPA) designation is required.
• CPA Canada In-depth Tax Course Level III completed.
• Extensive knowledge and application of IFRS and financial statement tax provision for external reporting.
• Experience with large publicly traded business enterprises preferred.
• Advanced MS Excel skills.
• Working knowledge of large ERP systems (SAP, D365, and/or JDE) and consolidation platforms(OneStream or HFM) and/or advanced data analytical and visualization tools (Power BI, Alteryx, Tableau) is a definite asset.
• Experience with electronic tax research tools and return preparation software.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and contribute to team objectives.
• Self-motivated with critical attention to detail.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Strong organizational, analytical capabilities and problem solving skills.
• Ability to multi-task, work under pressure in a fast-paced and deadline-oriented environment.