Tax Manager - US

A quick snapshot….

Reporting to the Director of Tax the Tax Manager will be responsible for matters relating to tax compliance, provision, business support, transfer pricing, intercompany structuring and tracking all corporate tax documentation.  The Tax Manager will also be responsible for managing tax staff and team with third-party tax service providers in order to accomplish the tax matters stated below.

Here’s what you’ll do…

• Manage and review U.S., U.K., Mexico and additional foreign tax returns
• Assist in the preparation and filing of Canadian tax returns including the SR&ED credit claim and Quebec e-Business Tax Credit application
• Manage the preparation of quarterly and annual tax provisions
• Prepare tax notes to financial statements
• Participate in international tax planning
• Assist with global transfer pricing and updates for agreements
• Manage intercompany loan agreements
• Help with withholding determination and contract structuring
• Assist in dealing efficiently and timely with tax audits
• Contribute to systems integration projects for any newly acquired or formed entities 
• Review US and UK monthly/quarterly sales tax returns
• Manage one direct report

 Here’s what skills you’ll need…

• Bachelor's degree in accounting
• CPA or Master’s degree in Taxation or completion of the CICA In-depth Tax Courses
• Four to five years of experience in managing Canadian/US tax compliance and reporting processes in a private or public multinational company (experience in a high tech industry would be beneficial)
• Strong knowledge and understanding of bookkeeping is essential
• Ability to perform successfully in a fast paced, multi-task environment and meet compliance deadlines timely and independently
• Leadership skills and ability to coach and develop team members
• Experience with global entity structures
• Proficient skills in Excel
• Experience with NetSuite or similar accounting system
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Knowledge of Taxprep and Answerconnect
• Expertise in indirect tax, would be beneficial

Aptos: Engaging customers—and our colleagues—differently.

• Aptos develops highly advanced solutions on the forefront of retailing for more than 1000 of the world’s most iconic brands. As a member of our professional or technical teams, you can too!
• Aptos is the recognized industry leader in delivering singular commerce via the Cloud to integrate and enrich customer engagement, merchandising, marketing and analytics operations across complex omni-channel enterprises. This enables us to provide the seamless experiences that today’s shoppers now expect, with the efficiency, deep insight and responsiveness that today’s retailers demand.
• At Aptos we engage our customers differently, not as vendors but as long-term retail partners, and we enable them to engage their customers differently with a deep understanding of who they are, why they buy and what they want.
• We also engage our colleagues differently in an exciting, collaborative environment that actively fosters a pioneering spirit, a strong sense of community, and absolute authenticity in everything we do.

 Here’s what will give you an edge…

• We know it when we see it. Passion is not saying how much you love what you do in your most excited voice. Passion is revealed in your truest self. It’s about what you’ve accomplished; how you want to grow; the ideas you have; your philosophies. It’s demonstrating through your words and your actions that you truly believe in what you do -- and where you work. That it matters to you. And that’s pretty cool.
• Resourcefulness and application. At Aptos, we have a pioneering spirit -- when we have questions, we find answers; when we’re faced with challenges, we find solutions. We turn to a variety of resources, including our own colleagues, our professional network, the Internet, articles and books -- whatever helps us get the job done. But it’s not just about using a variety of resources to gain knowledge -- it’s also about applying that knowledge to other areas of the job or business where it might make sense. 
• You don’t wait around for things to happen or for your manager to tell you what to do. You’re not only proactive about completing your own work, but when you sense the need to introduce a project that will benefit the team or the organization -- even if it’s outside your scope of work -- you put a proposal together, talk to the team about it, and own it. And that also goes back to having a pioneering spirit. 
• Quality orientation. You rarely make mistakes because you have good processes in place to ensure that every last detail is correct. There’s hardly an error that gets past you -- even when you’re under pressure to complete something in a very short timeframe.