Tax Compliance Analyst

Overview

Tax Compliance Analyst, Operational Finance

At Odyssey Transfer and Trust Company, we’re reimagining the infrastructure that powers modern markets. As a tech-forward transfer agent and trust company, we’re not just supporting how companies grow, we’re helping shape what’s possible. Our platforms, processes, and people are modernizing an industry where accuracy, speed, and expertise truly matter.

We help issuers manage and engage their shareholders with confidence, ensuring their most important relationships and transactions run seamlessly. Whether managing dividend payments for a mature corporation or facilitating corporate events, such as annual meetings, we provide tailored solutions that make business simple, fast, and easy for issuers and their shareholders.

With a reputation built on precision, responsiveness, and a deep commitment to client success, Odyssey is trusted by organizations across North America to deliver service that keeps their business moving.

About Our Team

Odyssey is a tight-knit, solution-driven team. Our shared values, as defined by our own employees, guide us in reaching our individual and collective goals:

• We Build
  : “Outside the Box” is our playground. We’re not afraid to innovate and tackle tough problems – we’re here to disrupt the industry. Creativity and problem-solving is not reserved for the Executive team.
• We Get Stuff Done (GSD):
  We have a notable reputation for being exceptionally responsive. Coming up with a great idea is only part of the solution;
  We take great ideas and put them into action.
• We Show Up for Each Other
  :
  We are in this together! We collaborate and support each other to get results. Our employees are compensated with competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package.
• We Do the Right Thing
  :
  We’re dependable, trustworthy, and proud of our professional standards.

We are looking for a tax compliance and accounting expert to facilitate the verification and processing of Canadian (, FATCA/CRS) and US (W8/W9s etc.) tax forms. The candidate will also support the tax team with accurate preparation and filing of information returns, and tax withholding and remittance obligations for both the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), as and when needed.

The ideal candidate is a team player who creates and implements tax plans and works with the accounting and leadership teams to identify opportunities for process improvement and potential areas of risk. The Tax Compliance Analyst will ensure compliance with state, federal and international tax law through a series of systems and system controls that are designed to ensure accurate, timely reporting.

They will monitor current and impending changes to tax regulation and make the appropriate updates to policies and strategies. The ideal candidate is single minded in their pursuit of ensuring compliance and achieves this goal through optimizing reporting procedures and driving the successful function of the tax team.

You are responsible for:

• Solicit, verify and process Canadian and US tax forms for our clients and their shareholders (, FATCA/CRS, W8, W9 etc.)
• Providing procedural guidance to internal teams for the review of IRS and CRA taxpayer certification forms.
• Ensure timely tax remittance to the CRA and IRS and reconcile the tax with holdings
• Find and implement opportunities for process improvement in Company tax procedures.
• Prioritize multiple tax filings requirements and effectively working with the business lines to establish the timely receipt of relevant information needed for all tax filings.
• Maintain effective control procedures over all aspects of the tax process.
• Monitor legislative and regulatory tax law developments, communicate the effects of these developments to management and the tax team and create strategies to capitalize on changes to taxation legislation.
• Provide support with various internal and external audits and special tax related projects.
• Monitor tax files monthly, review the data integrity and ensure applicable rates, formulas and tax factors have been applied to all income, interest and unit trust distribution…