Manager, Tax

Role Title:

Manager, Tax

Reports to:

Director, Tax

Manager Once Removed

VP, Finance

Direct Reports:

Tax Analyst

Job Type:

Full-time Permanent

Location

Toronto, Corporate Office

About Hudbay:

Hudbay (TSX: HBM)(NYSE: HBM) is a Canadian diversified mining company with long-life assets in North and South America. Our operations in Cusco (Peru) produce copper with gold, silver and molybdenum by-products. Our operations in Manitoba (Canada) produce gold with copper, zinc and silver by-products. Hudbay's organic pipeline includes copper development projects in Arizona and Nevada (United States), and our growth strategy is focused on the exploration, development, operation, and optimization of properties we already control, as well as other mineral assets we may acquire that fit our strategic criteria.

Copper is Hudbay's primary metal, representing approximately 60% of our revenues. Copper is one of the critical metals needed for the global transition to a low-carbon future. The demand for copper is expected to grow with the increased use of the metal in renewable energy sources, energy storage and the electrification of vehicles. Our leading organic growth pipeline provides significant long-term copper optionality to add to our production profile to meet the anticipated increase in copper demand.

With over 90 years of continuous operation, Hudbay stays strong by building on traditions and knowledge, remaining current through ongoing learning, adapting to new influences and embracing new opportunities. We know that committing to safety, embracing diversity, sharing skills, rewarding performance and encouraging a healthy work-life balance can help our people and our company make giant strides.

Mission:

We create sustainable value through acquisition, development and operation of high quality, long life deposits with exploration potential in jurisdictions that support responsible mining. The regions and communities in which we operate benefit from our presence.

Purpose of Role:

The purpose of the role is to provide support to Hudbay's taxation department and contribute to the value that the function provides to the overall organization.  The role will primarily support our tax accounting, compliance, planning, and special project initiatives.

Role Accountabilities:

Tax Compliance: Manage the Canadian and US tax compliance process to ensure that the company has complied with tax laws in Canada, US, BVI, Barbados and other countries where there are no tax personnel  and ensure that all necessary tax returns are filed on a timely basis and accurately.

Ensure that all Canadian tax compliance filings have detailed  reviews. Review or prepare return to provision analysis with a detailed summary of differences to ensure tax accounting for such differences is in accordance with IAS 12 requirements. Monitor the company's transfer pricing initiatives via documentation of intercompany transactions and transfer pricing methodology applied to intercompany transactions.Review of the global tax compliance tracker to ensure completeness of annual tax filings.

Tax Financial Reporting: 

Support the financial reporting process for taxation to ensure complete and accurate disclosure while anticipating the impact of changes in tax law and accounting principles on the effective tax rate and disclosure. 

Review and preparation of timely, accurate external financial tax reporting that complies with regulatory requirements and meets the needs of investors, analysts, and other stakeholders. Ensuring financial tax information contained in other external reporting is accurate (ESTMA, CSR Report, Management Information Circular, 40F, Annual Information Form, etc.).Assists in managing the relationship with the Company's external auditors and facilitates timely and positive conclusions to ongoing assurance engagements related to tax.Provide tax calculation input and review to the FPA function in support of corporate models to ensure impairment computations are complete and accurate with respect to tax.

Tax Controversy: Manage tax authority audits, tax litigation proceedings, and information requests from revenue authorities. 

Actively participate as requested in tax authority audits by preparing reconciliations, tax data and response documentation. Maintain all responses and any potential tax exposures in our consolidated trackerEnsure with the assistance of the tax analyst. 

Tax Planning: Assist the Director, Tax with provision of tax advice with respect to tax planning, special projects, transactions and analytical support related to tax.

Assist with the calculation input and review of the FPA function in support of corporate models to ensure that models are capable of projecting future taxes in order to evaluate tax legislation changes, implications of alternative tax filing positions, implications of tax planning opportunities and scenario forecasting projections.Assist with tax due diligence, structuring of acquisitions as well as capital raising transactions.Assist in ensuring all procedures required to maintain a tax structure are documented in an easy to understand formatProvide ad-hoc support to the Director, Tax with routine tax advisory and special projects on a regular basis.

Experience and Qualifications:

University degree and professional accounting designation, CPA, CACompletion of CICA In-depth income tax course, Parts I and II7 to 10 years of relevant tax experience including 2 or more years of mining industry experience Excelled knowledge of the application of Canadian corporate income taxAble to lead financial statement audits – tax provisionsExperience with corporate reorganizations, transactions and other tax planningExperience within a US SOX compliance environment Experience in the management of the career of direct reportsDealings with complex Canadian corporate income tax return filings

Knowledge and Skills:

Strong knowledge of Canadian corporate taxation and tax accounting under IAS 12Storng knowledge of Canadian international tax rules and transfer pricing law/methodologies Working knowledge with inter-jurisdictional taxation concepts and planning  Good working knowledge of LAN based computer programs including Excel, WordExcellent people skills to be used in building constructive working relationships across the boundaries of the Hudbay organization, characterized by a high level of acceptance, cooperation and mutual respect.A logical, analytic thinker who takes a numeric, systems-based approach to problem-solvingGood tax research skillsStrong analytical skills: able to discern large amounts of information and focus on the critical issuesSound judgment and decision makingStrong organizational skillsAble to work effectively under tight timeframes and meet deadlinesRespect for confidential information

Travel:

10% to 15% travel – site visits and conference attendance, as needed.

Why Hudbay?

At Hudbay our values of Dignity & Respect, Caring, Openness and Trustworthiness are embedded into our culture by the way we work and how we interact with one another.We pride ourselves in providing our employees with competitive total rewards that include:

• Annual performance bonuses
• Health benefits for you and your family, with a health spending account
• Company paid insurances for Life, Spousal and Dependent Life, AD&D, Critical Illness, and Short & Long Term Disability cover
• A Defined Contribution pension that includes company contribution and additional matching of your voluntary contributions
• An Employee Share Purchase Plan with contribution matching
• We support our employees in their individualized wellness journeys by providing a yearly Wellness Subsidy of up to CAD $1,000
• Hudbay gives back to the community with its employee charity matching program for eligible charitable donations made by employees
• Regular performance appraisals to acknowledge our employees for their contributions, strengths and work well done
• The opportunity to work out of our Platinum Class A and Platinum BOMA BEST Certified office building in Toronto's South Core Business District conveniently located beside Toronto Union Station

This role is eligible for flexible working arrangements, allowing you to balance remote work with time in the office.

Hudbay is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible candidate experience. If you require accommodation during the recruitment and selection process, please let us know.

We thank all applicants for their interest. Due to the volume of applications received, we will only contact candidates selected to advance in the recruitment process.

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