Cross-Border Tax Manager (CPA)

If you've spent years in public practice grinding through tax seasons and you're ready to use that expertise differently - advising rather than preparing, building rather than billing - this is that move.

Beacon Hill Wealth Management is a dual-registered (BCSC/SEC) portfolio management firm with over $600 million in assets under management - and growing fast. We specialize in cross-border Canada–US wealth management, working with Americans building lives in Canada and Canadians with ties to the US - clients whose financial lives don't fit neatly on one side of the border.

We're hiring an experienced cross-border CPA for a role that doesn't really exist anywhere else: one seat combining tax advisory, firm finance, and regulatory compliance - with a genuine leadership track to match. The person who owns this role will grow into the firm's senior cross-border tax planner, CFO, and Chief Compliance Officer.

WHO YOU ARE

You're a US CPA with 5–10 years of cross-border Canada–US tax experience. Canadian CPA designation is an asset. You've sat across from clients and untangled genuinely hard problems - residency determinations, treaty tie-breaker positions, retirement accounts straddling the border, departure tax, FBAR and FATCA compliance - and explained them in plain English.

You're the person who catches the error everyone else missed. You don't wait to be told what's next; you see what needs doing and you do it. When something lands on your desk, it's handled - and people around you know it will be.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Your foundation:

• Oversee the firm's financial operations - managing our bookkeeper and working alongside our external CPA
• Manage quarterly GST filings and prepare audit working papers for our external auditor
• Work alongside our CCO on the compliance backbone of the firm - operating in both the BCSC and SEC regulatory environments: regulatory filings, Form ADV updates, policy and procedures manual maintenance, AML/ATF program administration, trade pre-clearance, KYC documentation reviews, the compliance calendar, and annual board reporting
• Guide prospective clients - primarily Americans relocating to Canada - through pre-arrival tax planning and their transition to Beacon Hill
• Field cross-border tax questions from existing clients and contribute to their ongoing planning

As you grow:

• Quarterback planning implementation with clients' external CPAs - we advise, we don't prepare returns, so collaboration is the job
• Write cross-border tax content for a national audience across our publishing and education platforms
• Build the firm's internal cross-border tax curriculum so the entire team can speak the language

Where it leads, this role is built to grow into three seats:

1. Senior Cross-Border Tax Planner - the firm's technical authority on Canada–US planning, leading the advisory practice as it scales

2. CFO - full ownership of firm finance, reporting, and regulatory capital

3. Chief Compliance Officer - we'll fund and support the NI 31-103 proficiency path (Canadian Securities Course and the Chief Compliance Officers Qualifying Exam), and your compliance work at the firm builds the regulatory experience the role requires

This is a real succession plan with a defined timeline - not a carrot.

WHAT WE OFFER

• $130,000 – $150,000 base salary plus performance bonuses
• Four weeks' vacation from day one
• No tax season. Read that again.

We advise on planning year-round - nobody here works until midnight in April. No six-day weeks from February to June. No stacking 80 returns on your desk while you eat dinner at your keyboard. You'll use the same cross-border expertise you built in public practice, but you'll use it to actually think - advising clients on complex planning, not racing through compliance deadlines.

• Competitive benefits package
• Course and designation costs covered, including the CCO qualification path
• Direct mentorship from a dual-designated founder (CPA, CA / CPA (CO), CIM) with 20+ years of cross-border practice
• A small, sharp team in Victoria, BC - you'll work directly with the partners and the advisory team, not through layers of management
• A growing firm with a modern tech stack and clients across North America

WHERE YOU'LL WORK

Our lovely and comfortable office, centrally located in a heritage home on the periphery of downtown Victoria. We offer parking, a full chef's kitchen and a positive environment.

READY TO APPLY?

This is an in-office role based in our Victoria, BC office.

Send your resume and a short note about your cross-border experience. Tell us about the hardest cross-border problem you've solved - we'd rather read that than a cover letter.

phil@beaconhillwm.ca