Director Tax

Join Servus Credit Union - Canada's Largest Credit Union

We are hiring for a Director Tax to join our Accounting Team

Posting Closes: December 10, 2025

Additional Information: Remote, preference given to a candidate located in Alberta

At Servus Credit Union, we do things differently—because we're a credit union, not a bank. And that difference matters. 

We believe in putting people before profits, which is why our members are also our owners. Every dollar we earn is reinvested into the things that matter most: our members, our employees, and our communities. Whether it's through profit sharing, competitive rates, or local initiatives that make a real impact, we're here to help Albertans feel good about their money. 

We're looking for passionate, values-driven people to join our team. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds who are aligned with our values and are eager to contribute in meaningful ways. If you're excited to grow your career with a team that's innovative, hardworking, collaborative and deeply rooted in community, we want to meet you. 

 Join Servus and discover a better way to work. 

In this leadership role, you act like a business owner and member of a united leadership team that collaborates, challenges and pivots your team(s) to capitalize on opportunities to support the collective best interest of the organization and achieve excellence. Your enterprise knowledge helps influence and contribute to strategy development and directs the work required to deliver on our purpose.

Operationally, you will set priorities, direct, and deliver organizational outcomes by collaborating with others and making tough business decisions to align tactics for strategy implementation while ensuring organizational health and success.

You are a visible cultural leader, who embraces our values and behaviours to inspire others. You create a team(s) of empowered employees, that share an organizational vision. You develop team capabilities and skills, manage team priorities, drive change processes and remove obstacles for success.

Reporting directly to the Corporate Controller, this leader is directly accountable for connecting organizational and departmental strategy to meaningful work for the team, and by delivering the outcomes and results required of a modern Credit Union. This role's focus is leading the income and excise tax compliance, analysis, and reporting for the Credit Union

What you'll be doing:

• Responsible for all income and excise tax filings and communication; acts as the contact for matters relating to the CRA.
• Oversees the calculation and reporting of all credit union and subsidiary monthly tax accruals, quarterly tax provisions, income tax returns, GST returns, and deferred tax calculations.
• Research advanced tax and/or accounting issues and transactions then communicate the impacts to the business and document the details in a position paper or memo.
• Understand overall operations of the business and how transactions impact the company's tax position.

You have demonstrated the following essential leadership skills:

• Ambidextrous Leader: Leading in a rapidly changing 2-speed organization by focusing on core expertise and working knowledge of other areas of the business so that work is better aligned and assimilated across the organization. With an Entrepreneurial mindset, solve organizational opportunities and challenges through collective critical thinking using teamwork, collaboration, communication, and collective problem solving to make the right decision for the organization.
• Change Agility and Innovation: Embrace proactive leadership by driving change and fostering innovation, using design thinking, data analysis, AI thinking and digital literacy to project manage and prototype ideas that strengthening networks and champion a culture of adaptability and collaboration.
• Operational Excellence: Manage the portfolio with efficiency, focusing on productivity, problem solving, and resource optimization by harnessing industry, business and digital solutions that deliver results. Nurture a winning mindset with self and team.
• Courageous Leadership: Cultivate a culture of excellence and learning, coaching diverse and inclusive high-performing teams to be bold and thrive by demonstrating and inspiring others to live the values and behaviours of a modern credit union in a caring and emotionally intelligent way. Embrace making the right choice even when it is not easy.
• Accountable Decision Making: Take full ownership of decisions and results that impact the organization and department. Use paradoxical thinking to manage the tensions between short- and long-term goals; department and organizational needs; systems and people; using data, evidence, experience and judgement to guide choices to do what is right.
• Fiscal and Risk Responsibility: Lead responsibly ensuring the organization is profitable through strict cost management controls and identifying and proactively mitigating risks.

What you bring: 

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Accounting, B. Comm or equivalent.
• Active Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) designation or equivalent.
• Excellent knowledge of the Income Tax Act.
• Working knowledge of IFRS, Excise Tax, and Credit Union Act
• 2-5 years of progressively senior positions in corporate tax.

Why Servus?  

Working for Servus has outstanding benefits. In addition to standard benefits like health and wellness, vacation and retirement savings programs, we also provide other important benefits such as: 

• Competitive compensation including performance-based incentive pay and profit share 
• Training & Development Opportunities 
• Career Advancement Potential 
• Flexible work options 
• Meaningful work towards individual and corporate goals  
• Opportunities to get involved and give back through an employee volunteer program 

At Servus, our employees are also members. This means you'll have all the benefits of being a member of the credit union including profit sharing, voting for the board of directors, and all of the financial services we provide…with a few additional perks

What happens next?

We thank all applicants for their interest. Please note applications will only be accepted online and only those applicants under consideration will be contacted. 

At Servus Credit Union, we believe in being purposefully cooperative and working together to create a culture of Belonging for everyone. We are committed to an inclusive, equitable, and accessible workplace where everyone is valued, respected, and supported. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, and accommodations are available during every stage of the hiring process upon request. Your skills, passion and curiosity may find they belong at Servus, so even if you don't check every box, we encourage you to apply

Employment Eligibility: The selected candidate(s) must successfully pass a criminal background check, reference check and credit check to qualify for hire by Servus Credit Union.

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