Senior Manager, Tax Advisory Group

What is the opportunity?

As Senior Manager, Tax Advisory Group you will work closely with a group of tax professionals within the RBC Taxation group providing Canadian income tax policy direction, tax training and technical tax support to all RBC Financial Group business units and support functions (business partners) on tax issues impacting clients, products and services. This group also provides support for global tax issues, such as foreign withholding tax reclaims, tax treaties, and any other tax issues impacting RBCs businesses. Sharing of knowledge and information, and team participation are crucial to the success of this position and of the group.

What you will do?

• Respond to tax-related queries from business partners regarding clients, products and services on a timely basis to enable functions to provide quality client service
• Research complex and specialized tax issues
• Identify issues and topics requiring training and development, participate in the organization, development and/or delivery of internal training programs, contribute to tax sections of policy and procedure manuals and develop and maintain tax reference material
• Identify and communicate tax risks associated with products and services, assess the effectiveness of controls in place to manage those risks, identify opportunities to improve the efficiency of controls, and work with business units to develop and implement procedures for monitoring compliance
• Monitor new Canadian income tax legislation (and other foreign tax legislation as required)
• Provide advice and review tax opinions provided by external advisors on complex product issues and client transactions
• Participate in representations to, and negotiations with government officials
• Write articles and reference material for internal newsletter and Tax Advisory Group website

What you need to succeed?

Must-have

• Professional designation (CPA or LLB/JD)
• Completion of CICA In-Depth Tax Course
• 5+ years professional or industry experience in personal, trust and corporate taxation, including personal financial planning
• Knowledge of and experience with specialized tax issues relevant to such things as registered plans, estates, personal and specialty trusts, investment funds, securities brokerage and global custodial services
• Broad knowledge of financial institutions, personal and corporate trust business and operations
• Excellent writing, oral presentation and tax research skills
• Ability to communicate complex tax matters in an easily understood manner to non-tax professionals

Nice-to-have

• CFP designation
• Fluent in French

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Additional Job Details

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above