Senior Manager, Tax

Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL) is hiring a Senior Manager, Tax on a permanent full-time basis within our Finance team. This position is a hybrid opportunity and is based in Saskatoon, SK.

Are you a tax leader who enjoys navigating complex tax matters, providing strategic advice, and leading high-impact initiatives? Join our Finance team as the Senior Manager, Tax, where you'll lead FCL's corporate income tax function while providing strategic oversight to our Commodity Tax team. You'll play a key role in tax planning, compliance, financial reporting, audits, tax optimization, and business decision-making across FCL and the Co-operative Retailing System.

If you're passionate about technical tax leadership, developing people, continuous improvement, and partnering with stakeholders to deliver value, we'd love to hear from you!

What You’ll Do

• Lead FCL’s corporate income tax function, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant income tax filings, provisions, IFRS disclosures, future income tax calculations, reconciliations, and supporting documentation across FCL and its subsidiaries.
• Provide strategic tax planning and technical advice on acquisitions, transactions, restructurings, capital projects, and business initiatives, including CCA optimization, SR&ED, and other tax incentives to support effective tax outcomes and informed decisions.
• Oversee tax audits, disputes, compliance, and tax authority relationships, including CRA and provincial reviews, developing defensible tax positions, coordinating responses and information requests, and supporting appeals and settlements as required.
• Manage tax cash and financial integration, including income tax instalments, refunds, tax receivables and payables, balance sheet accounts, and the integration of income tax into budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, patronage calculations, acquisitions, and other key financial initiatives.
• Provide strategic leadership and oversight to the Commodity Tax function, including approximately 88 fuel tax and sales tax returns across eight provincial jurisdictions, significant tax remittances, compliance audits, risk management, team priorities, and ongoing team development.
• Drive continuous improvement across the Tax function, strengthening processes, internal controls, data quality, audit readiness, and technology while partnering with Finance, business units, CRS Retail members, Government Relations, external advisors, and other stakeholders to manage tax risk and deliver value.
  
  

Who You’ll Work With

The Team: Reporting to the Director, Corporate Accounting, you'll lead the Tax function within FCL's Financial Reporting & Tax team. You'll provide direct leadership to the Commodity Tax Manager and indirect oversight of the broader Commodity Tax team.

You'll work closely with Financial Reporting, Corporate Accounting, Finance leaders, business units, Government Relations, CRS Retail members, external tax advisors, and federal and provincial taxation authorities. You'll also provide technical guidance to Finance team members and help ensure tax considerations are embedded into business and financial decisions across the organization.

Why It Matters

We help local Co-ops grow and thrive by offering a range of professional services, including marketing, market research, information technology, human resources, accounting, risk management and business development.

Who You Are

You are looking for a career in Finance and:

• Have 8+ years of progressive tax experience, including corporate income tax, tax compliance, tax provision, and financial reporting within a complex, multi-entity organization.
• Have a Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Commerce, Business, or a related field.
• A Professional tax designation or advanced tax education, such as CPA Canada's In-Depth Tax Program (completed or in progress), is considered an asset.
  
  

What We Offer

• Competitive salaries, short-term incentives, a comprehensive benefits package, and an employer-contributed pension plan.
• Encouragement to take advantage of learning opportunities to grow and develop as a Team Member.
• As a co-operative, we do business differently. We believe in working together to serve Western Canadians, delivering profits back to our communities and investing in sustainable growth. To learn more about who we are and what we offer, visit www.fcl.crs.
  
  

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process to ensure an enjoyable candidate experience. If you require an accommodation during the recruitment process, we invite you to submit your requests to us via fclhr@fcl.crs. All information received will be kept confidential.

If this opportunity speaks to you, we invite you to apply by October 12, 2026.

We thank all candidates for their interest, however only those selected to continue in the recruitment process will be contacted.

As this position is considered a position of trust, you may be required to complete a criminal record check in accordance with FCL policies.

FCL embraces diversity and inclusion. We’re working to create a workforce that is as diverse as the communities we serve and an environment where every team member brings their whole self to work. We believe all candidates should feel at home with us and be given the opportunity to fully participate during the recruitment process.