Accountant - MacEwen Petroleum

Reporting to the Controller, the General Accountant is responsible for ensuring Balance Sheet Reconciliations are prepared in an accurate and timely manner and to assist with the accurate and timely monthly closing and reporting of the Company’s financial results.

This role will also provide support to ensure accurate and timely tax compliance reporting for MacEwen Petroleum and related companies.

Responsibilities: 

• Preparing returns and analysis, and documentation for all direct and indirect taxes for MacEwen Petroleum Inc. and related companies.
• Partnering with business departments to define measure, analyze, and improve controls, reports, and tax-related processes.
• Tax accounts for financial reporting purposes to ensure activity and balances are reconciled and appropriately reflect the Company’s tax position and status.
• Proactively and effectively supporting the management of tax audits and assessments by performing technical analysis and gathering documentation in support of the audit process.
• Maintaining and monitoring a tax compliance calendar to ensure all returns are filed in a timely manner.
• Ensuring that all necessary tax licenses are up to date.
• Gathering and preparing necessary documents and liaising with external service providers to prepare all corporate tax and information returns.
• Consistently monitoring and evaluating the internal processes and guidelines to ensure efficiency and providing recommendations on optimizing and automating the tax function while minimizing tax risks.
• Assisting with any tax matters associated with enterprise initiatives, business transactions and tax projects.
• Ensuring that procedural documentation is up-to-date and easily followed.
• Preparing estimates and monitor tax payments/refunds to assist the Treasury Group with short and long-term cash tax forecasts.
• Participating in special projects/performing technical research as assigned by management.
• Staying up to date on developments in Canadian tax law that impact the company.
• Creation of internal audit queries that will ensure all customers are setup accordingly.
• Other related duties as required or assigned.

Education & Specialized Knowledge: 

• Post-secondary diploma in Accounting, Finance or Business is required.
• 3-5+ years of accounting experience, preferably including working with tax (asset if international organizations operating in multiple jurisdictions).
• Sound knowledge of Canadian GAAP practices and applications.
• Experience working with external auditors and government auditors.
• Establish strong cross-functional working relationships with business units including Legal, Operations, Accounting, Business Development, Human Resources and Treasury to ensure tax risks are proactively identified and managed.
• Knowledge of SQL queries. (Preferably complex).
• Experience in using Power BI and/or Tableau in connection with SQL.
• Excellence in leveraging technology to add value and simplify processes is required.
• Team player who will partner in the process.
• Strong professional communication ability (verbal and written) for a variety of audiences.
• Proven technical, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proactive, self-starter with a commitment to continuous improvement.
• Demonstrable and exceptional attention to detail.
• Highly organized and able to meet tight deadlines.

Assets:

• Experience in the Petroleum industry.
• Bilingual in both English and French.
• Certified/Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA/CA) designation or close to completion.