Manager, Tax

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Wealthsimple is Canada’s leading financial innovator. The company offers a full suite of simple, sophisticated financial products across managed investing, do-it-yourself trading, cryptocurrency, tax filing, spending and saving. Wealthsimple currently serves more than 4 million Canadians and holds over $155 billion in assets under administration. The company was founded in 2014 by a team of financial experts and technology entrepreneurs, and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

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ABOUT THE TEAM

The tax team sits inside Finance and looks after Wealthsimple's own corporate tax position. We're deliberately building out specialist tax functions: one lane owns direct tax, another owns transfer pricing and international tax. The team is small, the entity group isn't, and we're putting in place the review and documentation discipline that investor-grade reporting depends on. If you'd rather set a technical standard than inherit one, this is a good moment to join.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Reporting to the Director of Tax, you'll own the direct tax lane: our income tax provision, corporate compliance, deferred tax attribute tracking, corporate tax forecasting, and the technical positions behind them. Indirect tax and transfer pricing sit with other specialists, so you can go deep rather than wide.

IN THIS ROLE YOU'LL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO

• Prepare or review the income tax provision each month, quarter, and year, covering current and deferred tax, the effective tax rate reconciliation, provision-to-return true-ups, and tax account reconciliations.

• Set the technical standard for direct tax: what gets independently recalculated, what can be accepted on the preparer's support, and what evidence a review leaves behind. You'll s...