Financial Controller North America

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Tax professional with experience in Canada and U.S. partnership taxation and tax equity structures to play a key role in the Financial Reporting & Control team.

In order to assist Neoen´s long term growth and operational strategy in North America, you will have the opportunity to gain invaluable exposure across all aspects of the tax & accounting function, as well as work alongside senior members of the team. The ideal candidate must be a team player with a willingness to learn and develop their knowledge.

Prior experience in tax or accounting role is essential but the right attitude, self-motivation, ambition & show of commitment is more important.

Based in Toronto, you will report to the Canada/North America Financial Controller. The role will focus on tax matters across the Group’s North American entities in Canada and the United States, including tax compliance, coordination with external advisors, tax credit matters, and support on related financial, treasury, accounting, budgeting, and corporate activities.

The description of this position´s main responsibilities as follows:

Key aspects of the role

• Review monthly and annual tax returns prepared by external advisors and ensure timely filing and accuracy.
• Coordinate tax compliance, tax reporting support and investor tax deliverables.
• Review and monitor U.S. tax equity partnership structures.
• Support monthly close and reporting processes for tax-relevant items.
• Enhance processes and procedures on an ongoing basis to ensure a strong control environment.
• Report to management on daily/monthly requirements and responding to queries in a timely manner.
• Take responsibility and ownership of tasks.
• Support other departments across the company.
• Assist in audit preparation.
• Ad-hoc tasks.

Taxes & U.S. Tax Equity Partnerships

• Ensure proper control over Canada and USA monthly and annual tax returns prepared by local external accountants.
• Prepare and review the annual current and deferred income tax calculations, including the preparation of related forecasts.
• Review and monitor U.S. tax equity partnership structures, including allocations, capital accounts, investor waterfalls, flip mechanics and compliance with LLC / partnership agreements.
• Coordinate U.S. partnership tax compliance, including investor reporting packages and support files for external tax advisors and auditors.
• Review eligibility, calculation and compliance for clean energy tax credits (ITC / 45Y / 48E), including prevailing wage & apprenticeship, domestic content, energy community and recapture monitoring.
• Support accounting and reporting for tax equity arrangements under U.S. GAAP, including HLBV / equity method considerations, and reconcile to IFRS group reporting.
• Assist and liaise with external tax advisors on ad hoc projects such as tax planning and process optimization.

Financial procedures and statutory compliance

• Apply finance, accounting, taxes, payments, and administrative procedures, in line with local requirements and Group procedures.
• Coordinate financial information between local business team, group consolidation team and external accounting team. Supervise the work of the latter.
• Support finance team during the accounting month-end close analyzing financial reports including P&L, Balance Sheet, Cashflow, etc.
• Enhance the accuracy of the annual financial statements.
• Assist in audit preparation and compliance reports to government entities
• Prepare audit files and liaising with external auditors (“Big 4”) to ensure completion of all statutory obligations.