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Reporting to the Director, Corporate Accounting and Taxation, the advisor participates actively in activities relating to corporate accounting, commodity taxes and tax-related projects
Responsibilities:
Company taxation (income tax and other specific regulations):
- Responsible for monthly and quarterly remittances and their accounting processing;
- Coordinates tax provision and annual tax return work with our external advisors;
- Support the Director, Corporate Accounting and Taxation in the application of new tax regulations affecting the company, and provide training to other colleagues as required.
Support to commodity tax team:
- Support the team in the timely filing of returns to the various levels of government (GST/QST, PST, fuel and carbon taxes);
- Review documentation to ensure that all required information is present and that all exemptions are properly documented (post-audit);
- Assists tax team during audits to provide various documents to government auditors. Follow-up on audit recommendations;
- Assists team with special projects (archives and preparation of statistics).
Risk analysis of suppliers' financial statements during calls for tender and monitoring of financial ratios for certain key suppliers:
- Detailed analysis of suppliers' financial statements;
- Calculation of financial ratios and comparison with industry ratios and those of other suppliers bidding for contracts;
- Advising procurement officers in drafting comments and recommendations on identified risks, additional documentation to be obtained and financial risk mitigation measures.
Responsible for compliance with Regulation 105 for non-resident taxes:
- Ensures timely payments and remittances;
- Responsible for T4A-NR production and issuance;
- Approves withholding calculations performed by Payables;
- Acts as contact person for government audits.
Analysis of major leases and contractual agreements in connection with the application of IFRS 16:
- Responsible for the completeness analysis of new contracts to be analyzed;
- Analyzes and documents the accounting treatment of the company's contracts;
- Assists in documenting the company's implicit borrowing rate for IFRS 16 purposes with the help of our external advisors.
Participates in the drafting of certain notes to the annual financial statements in support of the Senior Accountant:
- Drafts the initial version of the note and calculates the related financial data.
