Senior Manager, Tax - WECJP00030662

The Senior Manager, Tax leads tax compliance, risk control, and tax engine support for both ongoing business operations and new strategic initiatives. In this role, you will manage end-to-end tax system implementations and updates, ensuring accurate tax capture, reporting, and procedural documentation across all enterprise systems.
Requiring an in-depth understanding of interconnected financial systems, accounting workflows, and controls, you will act as a core subject matter expert—analyzing tax issues, developing remediation plans, and presenting solutions directly to executive leadership. Additionally, you will lead direct reports through performance goals and ongoing development, oversee external government tax audits, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to embed tax awareness into broader business strategies.

Advantages
•Executive Exposure: Partner directly with senior leadership to shape tax governance and influence strategic enterprise projects.
•Technology Leadership: Direct major tax engine and enterprise system integration projects (SAP & Vertex).
•Team Leadership: Mentor and develop a high-performing tax team while setting clear performance objectives and driving engagement.
•Strategic Impact: Drive process efficiency, improve internal controls, and assess legislative changes to protect organizational value.

Responsibilities
•Tax Compliance & Reporting: Direct daily corporate tax compliance, reporting, remittance, and recovery operations to ensure full adherence to tax regulations.
•Systems Integration & Oversight: Oversee system implementations, updates, and tax engine workflows (e.g., Vertex, SAP) to maintain precise tax capture and internal controls.
•People Management: Lead, mentor, and evaluate direct reports; establish performance goals and foster continuous professional development.
•Audit Management: Manage external government audits, coordinate documentation and analysis, and handle inquiries from tax authorities.
•Tax Research & Advisory: Conduct research on current and proposed tax legislation, evaluate business impacts, and present clear findings to executive management.
•Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with business units on new initiatives to ensure tax implications are identified, documented, and reported accurately.
•Governance & Documentation: Maintain complete procedural documentation across all tax processes and propose system/policy enhancements to increase departmental efficiency.

Qualifications
•Minimum Requirements:
oEducation: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, or a related field.
oExperience: Minimum 5 years of experience in a similar tax management role, including direct experience leading and developing a team.
oSystems Experience: Proficient with SAP and tax engines such as Vertex (or equivalent).
oTechnical Knowledge: Strong understanding of provincial sales taxes (PST/RST/HST) supported by practical tax research experience.
oLegislative Analysis: Proven track record of accurately reading, interpreting, and applying complex tax legislation.
•Nice to Have:
oDesignation: CPA (Chartered Professional Accountant) designation.
oIndustry: Prior experience within the Retail sector.

Summary
On behalf of our client, our agency is seeking a dynamic and highly analytical Senior Manager, Tax to join their finance leadership team. This role oversees corporate tax compliance, tax systems implementations, and risk governance across all operations. The ideal candidate will combine strong technical expertise in Canadian sales taxes with people leadership capabilities to mentor a dedicated team, manage tax engines (SAP/Vertex), and advise senior executives on tax strategies and legislative impacts.

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

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