Senior Manager, Tax Analyst/Compliance - Retail

Description and Requirements

Work Location: Onsite, 5 days 
Position Type: Contract, 5 Months (potential for an extension)
Location: Mississauga, ON
Compensation Range: $73/hr to $83/hr (subject to experience, qualifications, and employment conditions)

Our multinational retail company is looking for a Senior Manager, Tax Analyst.

The Senior Manager, Tax ensures timely completion and delivery of all corporate tax compliance obligations, providing leadership in issue resolution, systems implementation, and tax compliance processes. This role supports tax accounting and planning initiatives, ensuring alignment with overall tax strategy.

Responsibilities:

The Senior Manager, Tax leads tax compliance and system support, ensuring adherence to tax compliance and control for existing and new programs. This position manages system implementations and updates, ensuring accurate tax capture and documentation. The role oversees daily tax compliance, reporting, and systems control, developing direct reports and providing regular performance evaluations.

An in-depth understanding of end-to-end systems, processes, accounting, and controls for all tax operations is required to manage research and analysis of tax-related issues. This position highlights and remediates issues, proposing resolution plans to senior leadership. The role includes oversight of procedural documentation for all systems and processes necessary for tax collection, remittance, and recovery.

The Senior Manager, Tax also oversees system implementations and new business initiatives impacting the compliance process, working closely with required business functions. Responsibilities include managing external government audits, providing necessary analysis and documentation, and responding to queries. The role involves promoting tax awareness and knowledge, proposing changes to policies and systems to improve internal controls and departmental efficiencies.

Additionally, the position reviews and manages tax research based on current and proposed legislation, assessing and communicating the impact of tax changes. This role drives associate engagement, valuing and developing team members, and identifying and setting goals for direct reports. The Senior Manager, Tax collaborates with key stakeholders to ensure tax implications are identified and reported appropriately, ensuring compliance with all tax requirements.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a similar tax management role, including proven experience leading and developing a team.
• Proficiency with SAP and tax engines such as Vertex (or equivalent).
• Strong understanding of provincial sales taxes, backed by hands-on tax research experience.
• Demonstrated ability to accurately read, interpret, and apply complex legislation

• CPA Designation
• Retail industry experience.

All interested applicants who meet the qualifications listed above are invited to submit a resume by clicking "Apply Now".

The indicated pay range for this position is a good‑faith estimate based on the qualifications necessary for the role, including experience, training, and other considerations permitted by law. The pay band is established by the client company. Factors that may influence an offer include a candidate’s skills, experience, geographic location, and expected work quality and quantity. Most candidates will start in the lower half of the pay range, with the upper end reserved for those with extensive experience and skills or who live in higher‑pay markets. An employee’s pay history will not be considered where prohibited by law.

This information is subject to change and serves as a general guideline for compensation discussions. Actual offers may vary based on specific circumstances and company policies.