Taxation Analyst - Canadian and US Indirect (Commodity) Taxes

Description

Join our team

The TELUS Tax team provides critical expertise, consultation and counsel to the various entities and business groups, domestic and international, within TELUS. As trusted advisors, we help support complex business transactions with insights and recommendations that influence decisions made by stakeholder and senior leaders. We are practical and creative, providing innovative solutions in our quest to be the leading in-house Taxation team globally. Our team takes pride in driving operational excellence, best practices, and optimum results which contribute to business growth and exceptional customer and team member experiences.

Here's the impact you'll make and what we'll accomplish together

As a Taxation Analyst and member of the dynamic and growing Tax team you will be responsible for a broad range of indirect tax (GST/HST, QST, PST and US indirect tax) compliance functions for TELUS entities conducting business in the health, telecommunications, agricultural & consumer goods and other innovative industry verticals. As a strong team player you will be comfortable in actively supporting a broad range of initiatives including tax compliance/filings, systems implementations, new product introductions and business process changes.

You will leverage your natural curiosity, and strong communication skills, each day to ask questions and actively explore opportunities to improve our compliance and other processes to drive efficiencies and profitability. Where opportunities present, you will confidently take on a central and proactive role in bringing about change including demonstrating comfort in negotiating for changes or concessions with other teams.

As a highly organized and adaptable professional, you will be comfortable in managing competing priorities and working closely with your Tax and non-Tax colleagues to ensure that deadlines and other expectations are met. As a flexible performer, you will show your skills, as required, in transitioning from detail oriented work to a broader "bigger picture" approach. You will bring an aptitude for learning. You will be comfortable in shifting and re-allocating priorities in order to support evolving business and taxation needs.
In addition, and because we support each other as a team, you will have an opportunity, from time to time, to support the broader TELUS Tax team on US indirect tax matters

Here's how

• Assist in managing TELUS' tax risk while complying with our Tax Strategy EN Tax Strategy FR
• Work closely with the Tax team and other TELUS teams to establish relationship of reliability, helpfulness and trust
• Build a solid understanding of existing compliance systems and processes (including control processes) and ensure that corresponding deliverables are timely provided
• Critically evaluate opportunities to improve on systems or processes, clearly articulate those opportunities and take key role in driving change
• Actively collaborate with non-Tax stakeholders to better understand their priorities and seek out opportunities to improve outcomes in a mutually beneficial way
• Openly embrace opportunities to learn new skills and in particular new ERPs and other systems

Qualifications

You're the missing piece of the puzzle

• A reliable, trusted team member with strong interpersonal skills and a demonstrated ability to work with others effectively in teams
• A self-starting innovator who is confident in developing creative solutions to complex challenges and who takes initiative and ownership of challenges and opportunities and see them through to resolution
• Well-developed analytical and research skills together with attention to detail
• A strong communicator who conveys, both orally and in writing, insights, concepts and ideas in a clear, simple and concise manner
• A collaborative partner who cultivates positive relationships and influences others, including senior leaders
• Appreciated for your curiosity and learning mindset, initiative, creativity and drive for continuous process improvement, and adaptability when faced with change and/or ambiguity
• Capable in the use of productivity software (Google, Microsoft), ERP systems (SAP), Analytics applications and other common software applications
• Already comfortable in or enthusiastically willing to learn new technology platforms and evolving automated intelligence technologies such as RPA, Gen AI etc

Great-to-haves

• Knowledge of health, technology and/or telecommunications industry
• Canadian indirect tax experience and if not, a willingness / eagerness to work towards learning it
• ERP experience in SAP S4 HANA, SAP Analytics, Fiori
• Advanced worksheet experience (e.g. Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel - PowerPivot, PowerQuery)
• A professional designation - Canadian CPA or equivalent and/or relevant work experience