Indirect Tax Manager

As an Indirect Tax Manager at PwC, you will be part of a team solving complex business issues. Your role involves managing compliance and advisory services for Canadian indirect taxes, analyzing complex engagements, developing insights for clients, and building trusted relationships. You will focus on improving client compliance activities and navigating complex tax regulations.

Must Have

• Manage compliance and advisory services for clients regarding Canadian indirect taxes, including GST/HST, provincial sales taxes, excise taxes.
• Analyze complex indirect tax engagements, working on M&A activities, domestic and cross-border transactions, audit defense and other key indirect tax aspects of the customers business.
• Develop and provide insight on the benefits we can provide to the business, including a range of meaningful recommendations for our clients that improve their compliance activities.
• Manage multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop solutions and recommendations.
• Develop a perspective on key global trends, including globalization, and how they impact the firm and our clients.
• Focus on building trusted relationships and upholding the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct.
• Understanding of indirect tax with an ability to interpret and apply legislation, and a desire to continue improving your knowledge of this sector.
• Demonstrated client focus and experience in GST/HST and other sales tax legislation.
• Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working in a deadline driven environment with an ability to handle multiple assignments and work effectively under pressure.
• Attention to detail, ability to think creatively, and solve complex problems with innovative solutions.

Good to Have

• Accepting Feedback
• Active Listening
• Analytical Thinking
• Business Tax
• Coaching and Feedback
• Communication
• Corporate Tax Planning
• Creativity
• Customs Brokerage
• Customs Regulations
• Customs Tariffs
• Customs Valuation
• Embracing Change
• Emotional Regulation
• Empathy
• Inclusion
• Indirect Tax
• Indirect Tax Controversies
• Input Value Added Tax (VAT)
• Intellectual Curiosity
• International Taxation
• Learning Agility
• Optimism
• Professional Courage

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• Inclusive benefits
• Flexibility programs
• Continuous development environment

Line of Service

Tax

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

VAT/GST

Management Level

Manager

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in tax services focus on providing advice and guidance to clients on tax planning, compliance, and strategy. These individuals help businesses navigate complex tax regulations and optimise their tax positions.

In indirect tax at PwC, you will focus value-added tax (VAT), goods and services tax (GST), sales tax and other indirect taxes. Your work will involve providing advice and guidance to clients on indirect tax planning, compliance, and strategy, helping businesses navigate complex indirect tax regulations and optimise their indirect tax positions.

Meaningful work you’ll be a part of

As an Indirect Tax Manager, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. Responsibilities include

• Manage compliance and advisory services for our clients with regard to Canadian indirect taxes, including GST/HST, provincial sales taxes, excise taxes.
• Analyze complex indirect tax engagements, working on M&A activities, domestic and cross-border transactions, audit defense and other key indirect tax aspects of the customers business.
• Develop and provide insight on the benefits we can provide to the business, including a range of meaningful recommendations for our clients that improve their compliance activities.
• Manage multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop solutions and recommendations.
• Develop a perspective on key global trends, including globalization, and how they impact the firm and our clients.
• Focus on building trusted relationships and upholding the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct.
• Join a fast paced, strategic growth area of the PwC Tax practice.
• This role doesn’t support completion of the Canadian CPA designation.

Experience and skills you’ll use to solve

• A demonstrated commitment to valuing differences, developing and coaching diverse teams, and ensuring diverse perspectives are heard

• An understanding of indirect tax in with an ability to interpret and apply legislation, and a desire to continue improving your knowledge of this sector

• Demonstrated client focus and experience in GST/HST and other sales tax legislation;

• Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience working in a deadline driven environment with an ability to handle multiple assignments and work effectively under pressure.

• Attention to detail, ability to think creatively, and solve complex problems with innovative solutions.

• A demonstrated commitment to valuing differences, developing and coaching diverse teams, and ensuring diverse perspectives are heard.

• PwC Canada is committed to cultivating an inclusive, hybrid work environment. Exact expectations for your team can be discussed with your interviewer

Why you’ll love PwC

We’re inspiring and empowering our people to change the world. Powered by the latest technology, you’ll be a part of diverse teams helping public and private clients build trust and deliver sustained outcomes. This meaningful work, and our continuous development environment, will take your career to the next level. We reward your impact, and support your wellbeing, through a competitive compensation package, inclusive benefits and flexibility programs that will help you thrive in work and life. Learn more about our Application Process and Total Rewards Package at: https://jobs-ca.pwc.com/ca/en/life-at-pwc

PwC Canada acknowledges that we work and live across Turtle Island, on the land that is now known as Canada, which are the lands of the ancestral, treaty and unceded territories of the First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples. We recognize the systemic racism, colonialism and oppression that Indigenous Peoples have experienced and still go through, and we commit to allyship and solidarity.

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

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Required Skills

Optional Skills

Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Active Listening, Analytical Thinking, Business Tax, Coaching and Feedback, Communication, Corporate Tax Planning, Creativity, Customs Brokerage, Customs Regulations, Customs Tariffs, Customs Valuation, Embracing Change, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Inclusion, Indirect Tax, Indirect Tax Controversies, Input Value Added Tax (VAT), Intellectual Curiosity, International Taxation, Learning Agility, Optimism, Professional Courage {+ 17 more}

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Not Specified

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Government Clearance Required?

No

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