Tax Director - Corporate (Must Live in Canada preferable Quebec)

BPM Overview:

BPM is a full-service accounting firm providing comprehensive assurance, tax, and consulting services to clients globally.  We are one of the largest California-based accounting firms and have built our success by focusing on our clients and our people. Our client base encompasses a complex array of sophisticated clients that keep our staff intellectually challenged every day.

Our people-centered culture and firm motto “Because People Matter” has allowed us to be consistently recognized as one of the Best Places to Work in the Bay Area. We are dedicated to providing meaningful careers for all of our employees along with fostering an environment that allows an integrated lifestyle. Our flexible culture allows our professionals to live a balanced lifestyle between their work responsibilities and personal commitments.

Our firm’s growth objectives encompass a geographical expansion into strategic international markets, allowing us to leverage different talent pools to support our existing clients and provide our expanding expertise to new clients globally. BPM has identified Canada as a strategic market and has secured a team of almost 100 professionals remotely supporting our assurance and advisory practice groups. We are looking to pursue opportunities to offer Canadian tax compliance services to current and potential clients, for which we are looking for a particularly skilled team to build a robust practice emphasizing on offering depth of expertise, breadth of services, exceptional client service experience, and professional development opportunities for our colleagues.

As such, we are seeking a driven Canadian Tax Director to lead the development of a tax compliance practice in Canada. This role is pivotal in ensuring we can offer our current range of services to clients in Canada and would require the candidate to have a deep corporate tax expertise spanning both Canadian and Québec tax regulations, with a general understanding of other provincial regulations, sales taxes and tax planning opportunities. The candidate will be working alongside his Canadian counterparts in assurance and advisory and mentored by industry leaders part of our US and international tax compliance practices. The candidate can expect, beyond leveraging their technical expertise to serve clients, to participate heavily in business development activities as well as being relied on to develop procedural and administrative processes to establish such services in Canada

• Consistent recognition as one of the Bay Area’s “Best Places to Work”
• Recognition as “Top 5 Accounting Firm in the Bay Area”
• Summer Hours – Leave early on Friday afternoons from June to August!
• BPMU – A corporate university that’s dedicated to your career growth and development
• Flexibility in your day-to-day work schedule
• Rich diversity in the clients, industries, and overall work

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, economics or business.
• Chartered Professional Accountant designation in a Canadian province, preferably Quebec.  
• Working knowledge of corporate tax compliance with a variety of clients in varying industries.
• Minimum of three years of experience working in a professional services organization as a corporate taxation specialist with a focus on provisions or corporate tax returns.
• Prefer experience from Big 4 or other large international accounting or consulting firm.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Strong analytical and research skills.
• Ability to meet deadlines while maintaining attention to detail.
• Strong organizations skills.
• Ability to work in fast paced professional services environment. 

• Actively work to build a tax compliance practice in Canada, further developing the firm’s business and expertise outside of its current market/knowhow.
• Provide tax compliance and consulting to a diverse base of corporate clients in a variety or industries.
• Work with clients to minimize their federal and provincial tax liability.
• Work with international tax colleagues on multi-jurisdictional clients requiring tax planning.
• Collaborate with our Assurance professionals working on tax provisions.
• Help clients understand their sales tax obligations and oversee the preparation of their periodic filing requirements.
• Deliver and develop innovative financial planning ideas that meet or exceed client expectations.
• Oversee complex tax research projects for a variety of clients and diverse industries.
• Develop recommendations and implementation plans for clients and team members.
• Develop and deliver innovative financial planning ideas that meet or exceed client expectations.
• Develop a team of professionals working with you on providing Canadian tax compliance services, whom will be hired as the practice is built.

Wondering if you should apply?

At BPM we are people who value people. We are progressive and purposeful. We are a firm with flexibility. Our shared entrepreneurial spirit drives us to see and do things differently. And our passion for people makes BPM a place where everyone feels welcome, valued, and part of something bigger.

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