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, ensuring tax obligations are calculated, reported, and paid in accordance with federal and provincial legislation.
This is a full-time, in-office position based at the Calgary Head Office.
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About PetroChina Canada
PetroChina Canada is a subsidiary of PetroChina Company Limited and operates upstream, midstream, and downstream energy assets in Alberta and British Columbia.
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, ensuring tax obligations are calculated, reported, and paid in accordance with federal and provincial legislation.
This is a full-time, in-office position based at the Calgary Head Office.
Accountabilities
- Prepare and review Canadian corporate tax returns, schedules, and working papers; calculate instalments and monitor tax balances and payments.
- Prepare and file GST, provincial sales tax, and other indirect tax returns; reconcile tax accounts and investigate filing or ledger discrepancies.
- Maintain tax compliance calendars and meet filing and payment deadlines.
- Analyze tax treatment of oil and gas exploration, development, production, processing, and transportation.
- Calculate and maintain resource tax pools, including CEE, CDE, COGPE, and UCC; assess capital expenditures, reclamation costs, exploration expenditures, and asset transactions.
- Prepare the annual income tax provision, account reconciliations, effective tax rate analyses, and financial statement disclosures.
- Forecast cash taxes, assess business impacts, and explain variances among forecast, provision, and actual tax amounts.
- Research tax legislation, CRA positions, and case law; analyze corporate transactions, planning opportunities, and tax risks.
- Prepare technical tax memoranda, monitor legislative changes, and communicate recommendations to internal stakeholders.
- Support and coordinate CRA and provincial audits and reviews; maintain documentation and work with external tax advisors.
- Support tax controls, policies, procedures, accounting entries, and reporting; provide guidance on operational and corporate transactions.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related discipline.
- CPA or tax designation is an asset.
- 2–5 years of Canadian corporate tax experience, preferably in oil and gas or natural resources.
- Strong knowledge of Canadian federal and provincial income tax principles.
- Experience with corporate tax compliance, tax provisions, and tax research.
- The source also lists knowledge of GST/HST, but the qualification text ends mid-description.
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