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Wealthsimple, Canada's leading financial innovator serving 4+ million Canadians with $155B+ in assets under administration, is seeking a Senior Analyst, Tax to join its Finance team. Reporting to the Director, Tax, you will serve as the key preparer for income tax and sales tax filings, provisions, and reconciliations across a growing number of legal entities and products.
Key responsibilities include: preparing and filing monthly, quarterly, and annual sales tax returns (GST/HST/QST) across Wealthsimple's legal entities; preparing income tax returns and related account reconciliations on a monthly basis; taking ownership of month-end and quarter-end tax accounting processes including provision calculations and account reconciliations; maintaining audit-ready documentation and working papers; identifying discrepancies and flagging process gaps; partnering with Finance, Accounting, and cross-functional teams to ensure accurate and timely tax compliance data flow; and contributing to special projects including process improvements, automation, AI-enabled initiatives, technical research, tax modelling, and audit response.
You bring 3-5+ years of Canadian income tax and/or sales tax compliance experience, ideally in a financial institution, fintech, or public accounting environment. Strong technical grounding required in Canadian corporate income tax return preparation (T2), tax accounting concepts under IFRS, and advanced Excel skills for managing large datasets and multiple reconciliations. You're comfortable with technology and AI tools to improve accuracy and efficiency in recurring compliance work. You're detail-oriented, reliable, and own deliverables end-to-end without needing follow-up. You communicate clearly on technical tax matters to non-tax audiences and are proactive, communicative, and easy to coordinate with on shared deadlines.
Nice-to-have qualifications include CPA designation (or in progress), experience in high-growth fintech or financial services, expertise in sales tax, SR&ED, transfer pricing, or cross-border tax matters, and experience with tax technology tools or process automation.
Wealthsimple offers top-tier health benefits, life insurance, employer-matched group savings, 20 vacation days plus 4 wellness days and unlimited sick/mental health days, 90 days per year to work outside Canada, and employee resource groups. The hybrid team spans 1,500+ employees across North America.
