Tax Analyst
Role Overview
PetroChina Canada is recruiting a Tax Analyst for its Finance and Accounting Team.
The role supports Canadian tax compliance, reporting, planning, and audit activities and reports to the Manager of Tax, Treasury and Insurance.
This is a full-time, in-office position at the Calgary Head Office.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
PetroChina Canada is recruiting a Tax Analyst for its Finance and Accounting Team.
The role supports Canadian tax compliance, reporting, planning, and audit activities and reports to the Manager of Tax, Treasury and Insurance.
This is a full-time, in-office position at the Calgary Head Office.
Tax compliance and reporting
- Prepare and review Canadian corporate income tax returns, tax schedules, and supporting working papers.
- Calculate tax instalments, monitor tax balances, and prepare GST, provincial sales tax, and other indirect tax returns.
- Reconcile tax accounts, investigate filing and ledger discrepancies, and maintain compliance calendars.
- Assist with annual tax provisions, financial statement disclosures, tax entries, and effective tax rate analysis.
- Forecast cash taxes and explain variances between forecast, provision, and actual amounts.
Tax analysis and advisory
- Analyze Canadian tax treatment of oil and gas exploration, development, production, processing, and transportation.
- Maintain CEE, CDE, COGPE, UCC, and other resource-related tax pools.
- Assess tax treatment of capital expenditures, abandonment and reclamation costs, exploration expenditures, and asset transactions.
- Research tax legislation, CRA positions, and case law; monitor legislative changes.
- Analyze transactions, identify tax planning opportunities and risks, and prepare technical memoranda for stakeholders.
Audit, controls, and collaboration
- Support CRA and provincial tax audits and information requests; coordinate responses and maintain records.
- Help manage tax risks, internal controls, policies, procedures, and processes.
- Work with external tax advisors and provide tax guidance to operational and corporate stakeholders.
- Communicate tax matters and recommendations clearly to non-tax colleagues.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related discipline.
- 2–5 years of Canadian corporate tax experience; oil and gas or natural resources experience is preferred.
- Strong Canadian federal and provincial income tax knowledge and experience with compliance, provisions, and tax research.
- Knowledge of GST/HST and other Canadian indirect taxes.
- Strong Excel skills and experience with financial and accounting systems; SAP is an asset.
- CPA or tax designation is an asset; strong communication, organization, analytical, and problem-solving skills are required.
About PetroChina Canada
PetroChina Canada is a subsidiary of PetroChina Company Limited and has upstream, midstream, and downstream energy interests in Alberta and British Columbia.
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