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About Progress Partners
We are a multinational group operating a fast-scaling SaaS business, with strong presence around the globe, notably in Hong Kong. We currently operate a portfolio of SaaS products serving customers in more than 150 countries and reaching millions of users every month. Our products are consumer software applications across several categories, including AI, productivity, and utility software.
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced in-house tax professional to join our team. This role is ideal for a strategic, business-minded tax specialist with expertise in Canadian and U.S. taxation, preferably within the technology sector. We are looking for someone who takes full ownership of the tax function and proactively identifies risks and opportunities. The successful candidate will serve as the lead tax subject matter expert for all tax-related matters across the organization. This individual will support both domestic and international operations, cross-border structuring, mergers and acquisitions, transfer pricing, indirect tax compliance, and tax risk management initiatives. The role requires close collaboration with finance, legal, executive leadership, and external advisors to support tax-efficient growth and ensure compliance with tax obligations across multiple jurisdictions.
What You’ll Do
Support international tax planning and compliance for global subsidiaries and operations. Structure and review cross-border transactions, intercompany agreements, financing arrangements, and intellectual property ownership models. Lead the tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, financings, and strategic partnerships. Oversee transfer pricing policies and documentation in collaboration with external advisors. Provide advice regarding Canadian federal and provincial tax matters, including corporate income tax, GST/HST, provincial sales taxes, payroll taxes, withholding taxes, and tax audits. Advise on U.S. tax implications of the group’s operations. Provide guidance on employee international mobility tax considerations. Partner with finance and accounting teams on tax reporting, audits, disputes, and compliance obligations with tax authorities. Monitor legislative and regulatory developments in relevant international jurisdictions, Canada and the United States. Develop and implement internal tax governance policies and tax risk management strategies.
What We’re Looking For
Bachelor's degree in Law, Accounting, Finance, or a related field. Master's degree in Taxation or completion of the In-Depth Tax Program. CPA designation or membership in good standing with a Canadian or international law society. Minimum 5–10 years of relevant experience in international tax, ideally gained within a leading law firm, Big Four firm, or the in-house tax department of a multinational organization. Strong expertise in cross-border tax matters and Canadian corporate taxation. U.S. tax expertise strongly preferred. Experience with international tax planning, transfer pricing, and global tax compliance. Prior experience supporting technology, SaaS, software, fintech, or intellectual property-driven businesses strongly preferred. Experience with mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financing, and corporate reorganizations highly desirable. Strong business acumen with the ability to provide practical and results-oriented advice. Excellent writing, analytical, and negotiation skills. Ability to work independently and manage complex matters across multiple jurisdictions. Bilingualism (English required; French considered an asset).
Nice to Have
Experience with multinational or high-growth technology organizations. Strong understanding of international tax strategies for technology groups.
How We Work
We’re fully remote and distributed across time zones. We default to async, communicate in writing, and trust people to deliver outcomes, not log hours. Decisions are transparent, ownership is clear, and your work is visible from day one.
What We Offer
Competitive compensation package with performance-based incentives. Flexible work environment (fully remote). Opportunity to work on complex international tax matters within a rapidly growing technology company. Direct exposure to executive leadership and cross-functional teams. Significant growth potential and the opportunity to play a key role in a high-growth organization.
This position represents an excellent opportunity for a senior tax professional looking to transition into a strategic corporate role within a globally focused technology organization.
Equal Opportunity
Progress Partners is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re serious about building a diverse, inclusive team. We welcome applications from people of all genders, gender identities and expressions, sexual orientations, ages, ethnicities, nationalities, religions, disabilities, neurotypes, family situations, socioeconomic backgrounds, and life experiences. We hire on skills, experience, potential, and values fit. never on protected characteristics. If you need accommodations during the application or interview process, just let us know.
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About Progress Partners
Progress Partners is a Boston and New York-based corporate advisory firm that works with buyers and sellers of emerging growth companies to complete M&A or private placement transactions. Our deep industry experience, extensive network, and entrepreneurial backgrounds give us the ability to help our clients build and realize superior value.
We specialize in four key sectors in the technology ecosystem. Within each of them, our expertise is derived from years of work as entrepreneurs, operators, investors, and mentors. As licensed investment bankers, that background has led us to approach our role as an intimate extension of our client’s management team. In that effort, we become stronger together. We are proud of our ability to recognize and execute upon the right transaction for a given client, rather than simply to be in pursuit of any deal that can be done.
Every client engagement has different functional objectives and requires critical thought, but most often Progress Partners is pursuing one or more of the following missions:
- Develop and implement strategic plans
- Grow through acquisition of new customers
- Obtain investment capital to accelerate growth
- Realize returns through appropriate exit strategies
Across our sector coverage, our impact as advisors originates in our ability to recognize characteristics that are inherent to the strongest companies in the market; products and services built from true market demand that solve critical problems, and are supported by fundamental business models. We succeed when our clients succeed. In order to realize this success we operate with full transparency, ready and willing to deliver frank feedback toward the essence of getting it right every time.
Opportunities for Professionals: Please visit https://progresspartners.com/careers/ to learn more.
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Top Benefits
About the role
About Progress Partners
We are a multinational group operating a fast-scaling SaaS business, with strong presence around the globe, notably in Hong Kong. We currently operate a portfolio of SaaS products serving customers in more than 150 countries and reaching millions of users every month. Our products are consumer software applications across several categories, including AI, productivity, and utility software.
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced in-house tax professional to join our team. This role is ideal for a strategic, business-minded tax specialist with expertise in Canadian and U.S. taxation, preferably within the technology sector. We are looking for someone who takes full ownership of the tax function and proactively identifies risks and opportunities. The successful candidate will serve as the lead tax subject matter expert for all tax-related matters across the organization. This individual will support both domestic and international operations, cross-border structuring, mergers and acquisitions, transfer pricing, indirect tax compliance, and tax risk management initiatives. The role requires close collaboration with finance, legal, executive leadership, and external advisors to support tax-efficient growth and ensure compliance with tax obligations across multiple jurisdictions.
What You’ll Do
Support international tax planning and compliance for global subsidiaries and operations. Structure and review cross-border transactions, intercompany agreements, financing arrangements, and intellectual property ownership models. Lead the tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, financings, and strategic partnerships. Oversee transfer pricing policies and documentation in collaboration with external advisors. Provide advice regarding Canadian federal and provincial tax matters, including corporate income tax, GST/HST, provincial sales taxes, payroll taxes, withholding taxes, and tax audits. Advise on U.S. tax implications of the group’s operations. Provide guidance on employee international mobility tax considerations. Partner with finance and accounting teams on tax reporting, audits, disputes, and compliance obligations with tax authorities. Monitor legislative and regulatory developments in relevant international jurisdictions, Canada and the United States. Develop and implement internal tax governance policies and tax risk management strategies.
What We’re Looking For
Bachelor's degree in Law, Accounting, Finance, or a related field. Master's degree in Taxation or completion of the In-Depth Tax Program. CPA designation or membership in good standing with a Canadian or international law society. Minimum 5–10 years of relevant experience in international tax, ideally gained within a leading law firm, Big Four firm, or the in-house tax department of a multinational organization. Strong expertise in cross-border tax matters and Canadian corporate taxation. U.S. tax expertise strongly preferred. Experience with international tax planning, transfer pricing, and global tax compliance. Prior experience supporting technology, SaaS, software, fintech, or intellectual property-driven businesses strongly preferred. Experience with mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financing, and corporate reorganizations highly desirable. Strong business acumen with the ability to provide practical and results-oriented advice. Excellent writing, analytical, and negotiation skills. Ability to work independently and manage complex matters across multiple jurisdictions. Bilingualism (English required; French considered an asset).
Nice to Have
Experience with multinational or high-growth technology organizations. Strong understanding of international tax strategies for technology groups.
How We Work
We’re fully remote and distributed across time zones. We default to async, communicate in writing, and trust people to deliver outcomes, not log hours. Decisions are transparent, ownership is clear, and your work is visible from day one.
What We Offer
Competitive compensation package with performance-based incentives. Flexible work environment (fully remote). Opportunity to work on complex international tax matters within a rapidly growing technology company. Direct exposure to executive leadership and cross-functional teams. Significant growth potential and the opportunity to play a key role in a high-growth organization.
This position represents an excellent opportunity for a senior tax professional looking to transition into a strategic corporate role within a globally focused technology organization.
Equal Opportunity
Progress Partners is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re serious about building a diverse, inclusive team. We welcome applications from people of all genders, gender identities and expressions, sexual orientations, ages, ethnicities, nationalities, religions, disabilities, neurotypes, family situations, socioeconomic backgrounds, and life experiences. We hire on skills, experience, potential, and values fit. never on protected characteristics. If you need accommodations during the application or interview process, just let us know.
Not the right fit? Search for Director jobs in Canada
About Progress Partners
Progress Partners is a Boston and New York-based corporate advisory firm that works with buyers and sellers of emerging growth companies to complete M&A or private placement transactions. Our deep industry experience, extensive network, and entrepreneurial backgrounds give us the ability to help our clients build and realize superior value.
We specialize in four key sectors in the technology ecosystem. Within each of them, our expertise is derived from years of work as entrepreneurs, operators, investors, and mentors. As licensed investment bankers, that background has led us to approach our role as an intimate extension of our client’s management team. In that effort, we become stronger together. We are proud of our ability to recognize and execute upon the right transaction for a given client, rather than simply to be in pursuit of any deal that can be done.
Every client engagement has different functional objectives and requires critical thought, but most often Progress Partners is pursuing one or more of the following missions:
- Develop and implement strategic plans
- Grow through acquisition of new customers
- Obtain investment capital to accelerate growth
- Realize returns through appropriate exit strategies
Across our sector coverage, our impact as advisors originates in our ability to recognize characteristics that are inherent to the strongest companies in the market; products and services built from true market demand that solve critical problems, and are supported by fundamental business models. We succeed when our clients succeed. In order to realize this success we operate with full transparency, ready and willing to deliver frank feedback toward the essence of getting it right every time.
Opportunities for Professionals: Please visit https://progresspartners.com/careers/ to learn more.