Senior Accountant - Tax

Our work is challenging. We love it and expect it. We help each other, so we never feel alone. Everyone with us has a voice that is heard. We collaborate at all levels.

As a Senior Accountant II, you will have the opportunity to grow your skills and mentor those who are learning. You will also have the support of your team, your direct leader, and the Firm partners. Our team's development is crucial for our success, and everyone has a mentor to encourage that.

The desire to develop yourself and others is a way of life for us, continually evolving to be better at what we do and being humble in the process.

The Requirements And Qualifications Are

• Completed CPA
• Ready to enroll in the In-Depth Tax Program
• Knowledge and application of general accounting principles (GAAP), IFRS, ASPE, Income TaxAct
• Ability to identify and resolve technical tax accounting issues
• Has 3-5 of public accounting experience, preferably in a tax role
• Proficient with MS Office, specifically Excel and Word
• Excel ability to create complex formulas, VLOOKUP, pivot tables, data analytics
• Knowledge of CaseWare, Case View, Jazzit, Tax prep, Tax net Pro or other tax research platforms
• Ability to independently travel to client sites
  
  

If you still need a bit more information about the Senior Account II - Tax role itself, here's what it looks like.

The Work

• Acts as an in-charge of leading tax engagements, including planning on-site client meetings and proactively coordinating the communications between the teams, clients, consultants, and managers/partners.
• Identifies tax technical issues, researches and develops a plan, provides a solution, implements the plan, and prepares a memo, a client memo.
• Identifies, develops and implements strategies for clients to capitalize on business and tax opportunities.
  
  

This includes preparing & reviewing tax reorganizations and reviewing corporate, trust and estate tax returns.

• Participates in the planning of the tax sections for review and audit engagements.
• Reviews tax sections and related tax disclosures of assurance files.
• Prepares election forms for corporate re-organization and implement working papers along with instruction memo.
• Assists with CRA audits.
• Independently reviews T1s, T3s, T4s, and T5s and prepares the most complex filings.
• Reviews tax sections of Assurance and Enterprise files and provides coaching and training for less experienced staff.
• Conducts review of the team's working papers prior to submitting them to the Manager.
• Promptly identifies significant tax opportunities for discussion with the Manager, Senior Manager and/or Partner.
• Conducts a self-review of own working papers and instruction memos prior to submitting to Manager.
• Prepares detailed budgets for tax engagements and ensures that the budgets are adhered to accordingly; Any deviations from budgets are to be discussed with managers and partners accordingly.
  
  

Client Engagement

• Build positive working relationships with clients and provide effective support for engagements.
• Correspond with clients and various government agencies to address client tax compliance issues.
  
  

Coach and Mentor

• Invests in the team's professional development by providing hands-on learning opportunities through delegation of work based on a team member's knowledge, experience and capabilities, coaching and effective supervision during the completion of each tax engagement, along with participation in performance evaluations.
  
  

Key Skills To Accelerate Your Career

• Displays problem-solving skills and effective, insightful, and timely communication skills
• Is a good team player with a positive attitude and a willingness to learn; displays initiative to take on new work outside of comfort zone
• Consistently produces a high-quality result
• Proactively and willingly acts upon feedback provided to themselves
• Services high-level and complex clients
  
  

We have terrific career rewards with our compensation, benefits, work-life, and career development programs.