Senior Director, Taxation & Treasury

At the heart of CSA Group is a vision: making the world a better safer more sustainable place. Its been part of our mission for nearly one hundred years: from the first engineering standard for railway bridges developed in 1919 to more than 3500 standards codes & related products today.

Headquartered in Canada with a global footprint of more than 30 labs and offices across Europe Asia and North America CSA Group tests inspects and certifies a wide range of products - from every day househould items to leading edge technology-to meet exacting requirements for safety performance and environmental impact.

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Responsible for leading treasury and cash flow management for the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) overseeing tax planning administration and compliance and ensuring accurate accounting reporting and internal coordination related to CSAs investments and its interest in a separately governed investment entity.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities:

Investment Reporting & Governance Coordination

• Serve as liaison with the separately governed investment entity to ensure accurate accounting reporting and reconciliation of CSAs interest in and transactions with the investment entity.

• For CSAs investment portfolio manage relationships with external investment consultants asset managers custodians and banking partners.

• Prepare and/or review investment-related account reconciliations schedules and supporting documentation for monthly quarterly and annual financial reporting.

• Coordinate with the investment entity custodians external investment managers auditors and other service providers to obtain timely and accurate information required for CSA accounting and reporting.

Treasury Cash Flow & Capital Management - Canadian Standards Association

• Lead CSAs treasury operations and enterprise cash-flow management including short- and medium-term liquidity forecasting.

• Develop and maintain rolling cash-flow forecasts to ensure CSA has sufficient liquidity to meet operating capital and strategic requirements.

• Determine CSAs near-term funding needs and coordinate cash movements contributions distributions or other transfers with the investment entity in accordance with approved governance and authorization processes.

• Manage CSA banking and treasury relationships bank accounts signing authorities and treasury controls.

• Optimize CSAs operating cash balances and short-term liquidity within approved policies and risk parameters.

• Develop liquidity management policies cash reserve parameters and contingency funding plans for CSA.

• Monitor counterparty exposure interest rates credit conditions and currency developments relevant to CSAs treasury activities.

• Prepare treasury and liquidity reporting for executive management and the Board including cash forecasts liquidity headroom and key risks.

Tax Strategy Planning Administration & Compliance

• Lead and coordinate CSAs tax planning administration and compliance activities working with external tax and legal advisors as appropriate.

• Develop and maintain tax policies internal controls and governance processes.

• Assess tax implications of transactions between CSA and the investment entity including investment income distributions capital movements financing arrangements and restructurings.

• Oversee corporate tax compliance including income tax returns information returns withholding taxes indirect taxes and applicable foreign reporting obligations.

• Coordinate tax provisions and related financial statement reporting and audit support.

• Monitor relevant Canadian and international tax developments and advise management on implications for CSA. Pension compliance

• Lead the financial and regulatory compliance activities for CSAs Defined Benefit (DB) and Defined Contribution (DC) pension plans ensuring adherence to applicable legislation plan provisions and regulatory requirements.

• Oversee the financial administration of CSAs pension plans including monitoring pension contributions special payments and funding obligations to ensure compliance with plan policies and regulatory requirements.

• Work closely with Payroll Human Resources and external actuaries to validate pension calculations contribution requirements and funding transactions.

• Monitor pension regulatory developments and funding requirements including those established by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRA) and advise management on implications for CSA.

• Support pension-related accounting financial reporting audit requirements and disclosures associated with CSAs pension obligations.

Preferred Education & Experience:

• University degree in Accounting Finance or a related field; CPA designation strongly preferred.

• 10 years of progressive experience in treasury accounting/financial reporting and tax ideally in a complex organization.

• Strong experience in cash-flow forecasting liquidity management banking and treasury operations.

• Experience accounting for investments and/or interests in separately governed entities and coordinating information from external managers custodians or administrators.

• Strong knowledge of financial reporting internal controls corporate taxation and treasury governance.

• Knowledge of foreign-exchange risk management and hedging is an asset.

• Experience preparing materials for senior management and Boards or Board committees.

• Critical and innovative problem-solving ability and strong attention to detail.

• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.

• Demonstrated ability to lead across multiple finance disciplines and develop a high-performing team.