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Job Description:

Overview: The Tax Supervisor will support the Canada Tax Manager in tax compliance, managing tax audits, and assessing tax risks across UPS’s Canadian subsidiaries. This role requires a solid background in Canadian tax, audit, and compliance, along with experience in cross-functional collaboration. The Tax Supervisor will mentor team members, maintain a proactive approach to tax management, and contribute to a robust tax compliance framework. This position is ideal for someone with strong tax technical knowledge and a collaborative spirit, ready to take ownership of the tax processes.

​Work Location: 1930 Derry Road East, Mississauga, ON (NOT REMOTE)

Shift/Hours: Monday- Friday 9AM-5-PM EST

Key Accountabilities:

• Executive presence – ability to effectively communicate complex tax matters in laymen’s terms to allow non-tax business leader to understand the risks, opportunities and strategies involved in tax matters

• Leadership, maturity, development and coaching, proactive and decisive

• Creating a collaborative environment

• Building internal and external relationships

• Implementing tax strategies

• Assessing and mitigating tax risks

• Corporate income tax compliance (local and federal tax returns, withholding taxes, etc.)

• Co-operating on transfer-pricing matters with the Atlanta based transfer-pricing team

• Tax audits

• Continuous staff development

Key skills:

• Experienced tax practitioner with previous experience in Canada and international taxes gained in consultancy firm and/or from working within a multi-national group

• Detailed knowledge of Canada tax legislation, case law, guidance, and best practices

• Ability to draft memos using relevant tax legislation, case law and other guidance

• Experience in effective communication with tax authorities

• Basic knowledge of associated technical areas such as basic US taxation principles, treasury, and accounting

• Excellent written communication skills

• Ability and willingness to travel from time to time

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Direct, Indirect and Carbon Tax Compliance for all UPS Canadian subsidiaries, including review of workpapers for all tax return filings for federal, provincial/state and local tax laws and regulations.  This also includes ensuring that monthly estimated tax payments are made timely, and all elections are timely filed.

• Engage and provide support for indirect taxes prepared by our non-tax partners. This may include writing and documenting procedures and implementing best practices for our non-tax teams to follow.  This may also include testing procedures to ensure compliance in these areas.  This includes the following areas of tax but is not limited to:

• Non-resident tax

• Payroll Income tax

• GST, HST, QST, PST

• Withholding taxes

• Manage tax audits for all UPS Canadian subsidiaries, including review of tax assessments and notices of reassessment are dealt with in a timely and appropriate manner, and includes preparation of correspondence with the tax authorities. This also includes working with external auditors to ensure all tax amounts on financial statements are correct.

• Support the quarterly tax accounting and reporting for tax contingencies.

• Support tax forecast information for inclusion into the corporate cash forecast.

• Ensure tax registrations are filed and maintained in all tax jurisdictions required.

• Liaise with operations staff to address tax issues.

• Managing relationships with outside professional firms as needed to coordinate on important tax issues.

• Work with personnel in business development, treasury, accounting, and other departments to coordinate business and tax issues.

Essential Knowledge, Experience and Qualifications:

• Five plus years relevant work experience in Big 4 or large multi-national company preferred.

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance, plus further specialization/certification in Tax.

• Professional Canadian accounting designation such as CA, CPA Preferred.

• Strong knowledge of Canadian GAAP/IFRS and US GAAP.

• Must have excellent computer, spreadsheet skills. Demonstrated advanced user of Microsoft Excel and intermediate user of other Microsoft Office software.

• Knowledge and understanding of Oracle systems in order to extract information a plus.

• Must have corporate tax return preparation and review experience.

• Experience managing audits from tax authorities.

• Must have current Canadian corporate tax accounting knowledge and demonstrated expertise.

• Must have current Canadian indirect tax knowledge and experience.

• Bilingual (English & French) is a plus.

UPS is a diverse and equal opportunity employer.  Accommodations are available, on request, for candidates with disabilities taking part in the recruitment process.  If you are selected to participate in the recruitment process, please advise if you require accommodation for a disability.