FO TAX 30R – Audit Supervisor

Audit Supervisor Financial Officer Tax 30

An eligibility list may be established.

A dynamic opportunity to advance your career with the Ministry of Finance

The Income Taxation Branch’s (ITB) role within the Revenue Division includes ensuring responsive, effective, and fair revenue, tax, tax credit and benefit administration that contributes to the funding of provincial programs and services. ITB includes the following primary business areas:

Administration, compliance and enforcement activities under the Employer Health Tax Act, the Insurance Premium Tax Act, the Logging Tax Act, and Part 11.1 of the Forest Act (Forest Revenue Audit Program), which bring in an estimated $3 billion in annual revenue.  

Relationship management and governance of the CRA’s administration of an estimated $18.6 billion of British Columbia revenue and approximately $2.1 billion of incentives through various tax credit and benefit programs under the Tax Collection Agreement (TCA) between the Government of Canada and the Government of the Province of British Columbia as well as coordinating provincial efforts with the CRA to combat the underground economy.   

ITB also leads the negotiation of various agreements with other government bodies, such as information sharing agreements, on behalf of the Revenue Division. ITB’s mandate is carried out by three business teams:

Audit & Operations  

Income Tax Programs  

Income Tax Advisory & Intergovernmental Relations  

The Audit Supervisor supervises a team of Team Leads and Tax Auditors engaged in:

Compliance activities, database administration and tax return assessments under the Employer Health Tax Act, and  

Program verification and compliance activities for the Increased Employment Incentive tax credit.  

This position will initially supervise a team working on COVID 19 program audits for the BC Emergency Benefit for Workers and the BC Recovery Benefit.

The capital of British Columbia, Victoria is a beautiful city, with beautiful beaches and harbours, and a variety of provincial parks to explore. Located on Vancouver Island, Victoria offers a bustling downtown scene and has a wide range of restaurants and entertainment venues to choose from. This is your opportunity to live in one of the most beautiful regions in British Columbia and work for the BC Public Service. We offer a healthy work/life balance, excellent benefits and much more. 

The BC Public Service is committed to creating a diverse workplace to represent the population we serve and to better meet the needs of our citizens. We acknowledge all Indigenous peoples on whose territories we work and play. We honour their connections to the land and respect the importance of the diverse teachings, traditions, and practices within these territories. Consider joining our team and helping us build an innovative, inclusive and rewarding workplace.

The Indigenous Applicant Advisory Service is available to applicants that self-identify as Indigenous (First Nations, status or non-status, Métis, or Inuit) seeking work or already employed in the BC Public Service. For advice and guidance on applying and/or preparing for an interview for this opportunity, we invite applicants to connect with the Indigenous Applicant Advisor Amanda by email: [email protected] or by phone: 778-698-1336.

For complete details about this opportunity, including accountabilities, please refer to the attached job profile. For specific position related enquiries, please contact [email protected]. DO NOT SEND YOUR APPLICATION TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS.  For more information about how to complete your job application, add/edit your resume and for more useful tips when applying for jobs, please refer to the Your Job Application page on the MyHR website. If you are still experiencing technical difficulty applying for a competition, please send an e-mail to [email protected], before the stated closing time, and we will respond as soon as possible to assist you.

NOTE: Applications will be accepted until 11:00 pm Pacific Standard Time on the closing date of the competition.

Job Requirements: In order to be considered for this position, your application must clearly demonstrate how you meet the education and experience as outlined below:  

A member in good standing with a professional accounting designation (CPA, CA;  CPA, CGA ; CPA, CMA; or CPA), issued by The Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada; and  

Minimum of five years’ experience in an accounting and /or auditing environment, including a minimum of three years planning, supervising, and/or conducting audits.  

Experience interpreting legislation and conducting analytical research.  

Preference may be given to applicants with:  

Supervisory experience.  

Tax administration experience.  

Experience administering provincial tax programs.  

System development experience.

Applicants selected to move forward in the hiring process may be assessed on the Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Competencies as outlined in the attached Job Profile located in the Additional Information section at the bottom of the posting. 

A Criminal Record Check (CRC) will be required.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:

Cover Letter: YES – A cover letter is required as part of your application. The content and/or format of your cover letter may be evaluated as part of the assessment process.

Resume required: YES – A resume is required as part of your application; however, it may not be used for initial shortlisting purposes.

Questionnaire (COMPREHENSIVE): YES – As part of the application process, you will be prompted to complete a comprehensive online questionnaire to demonstrate how you meet the job requirements. Please allot approximately 60 minutes to complete the questionnaire.

IMPORTANT: Comprehensive questionnaire responses will be used to shortlist applicants against the job requirements. Please ensure you include all relevant information about your educational accomplishments and employment history including job titles, start and end dates (month and year) of your employment, and your accountabilities and accomplishments.

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3 Things About Being A Music Therapist That Others Don’t Tell You About

1) It takes a lot of hard work and dedication to become a board-certified music therapist. 

“The education of a music therapist is unique among college degree programs because it not only allows a thorough study of music, but encourages examination of one’s self as well as others.” -American Music Therapy Association (AMTA). 

Although the required coursework vary from school to school, completing my music therapy requirements at Berklee College of Music was challenging. Every semester I had an average of 8 courses/semester (Berklee goes by semesters, not years) and each class consisted of 1-2 credits, at most 3. These classes included music theory, arranging, conducting, ear training, music technology, psychology, private lessons, ensemble, music therapy, development seminars, electives, and general studies. Courses specific to music therapy included 5 levels of supervised practicum fieldwork in facilities that served individuals with disabilities in the community. I was assigned to work at a school setting with children diagnosed with cerebral palsy for my first practicum, and this was my first direct hands-on client experience with music therapy. I was then placed at a nursing home for my second practicum that focused on geriatrics in which I served groups of elderly who were diagnosed with depression and Alzheimer’s disease. Then I got to work with homeless women in my next practicum, adults with developmental disabilities in the one after that, and children and babies in intensive care units during my final practicum at Boston Children’s Hospital. Courses in addition to each practicum focused on specific areas, such as P1 (practicum 1) in Special Education, P2 in Geriatrics, P3 in Research, P4 in Psychiatry, and P5 in Medicine. Although you’re required to work for about 7-8 weeks at your chosen facility (1-2hrs once a week) and that may not seem like much, having to balance studying, completing research, doing homework assignments, practicing instruments, preparing for concert recitals, recording music, attending meetings, memorizing songs, and overall figuring out my life as both a musician and a music therapist was very challenging. Although my main focus was music therapy, I still needed to focus on vocal performance as I was graded for my musical skills, not just for my clinical work. There are numerous amounts of documentation and clinical writing involved as well, and each practicum is paired with courses related to what you’re learning and dealing with in that specific practicum. Music therapy courses at Berklee require not only sitting at your desk listening to lectures, finishing up tasks and passing exams, but they require active participation such as public speaking, group work, role playing, advocating, and playing instruments. In other words, it’s about practicing and developing skill through action than just having mere knowledge about each course. Meditation and self-care practices are also taken place inside classrooms where you get to be in an open and vulnerable space with others, tap into your own personal thoughts, emotions and feelings, and focus on self-awareness and awareness of others. There is a lot of individual attention that you get from professors who have high expectations of their students (Berklee’s student-teacher ratio- 11:1), and because I got to learn in such small, inclusive classroom environments with direct patient contact at fieldwork, I grew massively in my musical and clinical knowledge and abilities. Because I was pushed to actively participate and throw myself into uncomfortable situations, I’ve grown immensely through my learning. It’s great that we get to apply what we learned in class directly into practice at our practicum sites and receive feedback from our supervisors on site who are also professional music therapists. Classrooms feel like workshops, and practicums feel like small unpaid internships. It’s challenging to be seen and trained as a musician, professional, and therapist inside classrooms when we’re still students and sometimes don’t feel mature enough to handle the ups and downs of social and emotional experiences throughout the whole process. But real growth happens when you’re out of your comfort zone and that’s how Berklee was like for me and for many others who are currently music therapy students. We are constantly pushed to feel uncomfortable in our learning. 

Then after you’ve completed all of your training at school which usually takes about 4.5-5 years, you graduate (hurray!) and then go search for an internship to receive your degree. This is the last step you need to complete before receiving your official diploma and becoming a professional music therapist. My internship took place at Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) in which I worked 40 hours/week, unpaid, for 6 months. Although there are some paid music therapy internships, most are not and require you to work 6-9 months depending on the site. Then once you complete your internship, you are finally eligible to sit in for the certification exam. Once you pass the exam, you are finally acquired the credential Music Therapist-Board Certified (MT-BC). 

2) Therapy > Music. 

I say music therapy is 70% therapy and 30% music. We are using music as a tool to reach non-musical goals. So it’s not just about performing and entertaining patients/clients and wowing them through your musical skills, it’s about using music purposefully and intentionally through the connection and relationship you build with your patients/clients to help them reach their goals. We do music WITH the patient, not just TO the patient. It doesn’t mean you have them to follow you, you adapt yourself to follow them. This is also the main difference between music education and music therapy- while music education focuses on musical knowledge and skills that follows a standard, rigid curriculum with no adaptations to meet the patient’s specific needs, music therapy adapts the music to meet each patient’s specific goals and needs. Music therapists are trained to see the needs of patients with disabilities and special needs on a deeper level, and therefore know how to use effective strategies to target those specific needs through music. Here is an example I can provide from my internship- I’ve worked with several cancer patients at CHOC and at the time, many were undergoing stem cell transplants and chemotherapy. Going through treatment can be extremely stressful and scary for kids, especially when their family isn’t around to keep them company through challenging times. Kids need to be in supportive environments where there is structure, autonomy/independence, and relationship support. In order to target these three elements, my main goals for music therapy were to provide structured and predictable environments, increase their autonomy and control, and build rapport. To provide structure, I used familiar music for predictability and songwriting scripts; for autonomy support, I allowed patients to make their own choices about lyrics, melody, how they wanted the song to sound like; and for relationship support, I focused on building rapport through discussing about the content of the song, brainstorming ideas together, and interacting throughout the overall songwriting process. Providing specific music interventions that are tailored to their experiences helps create a safe space and allows them to drive benefit from music and be successful in therapy. So music therapy isn’t just focusing on the musical elements- rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre, pitch, dynamics- but it’s focusing on the musical elements to be used clinically in purposeful ways. It’s more about the interaction, the connection with the patient/client rather than the music itself. Because our main focus is therapy, music therapists utilize a variety of methods and don’t necessarily have a traditional, fixed way of doing things when providing music and playing instruments. I’ve used the back of my guitar as a drum once, the side of my guitar as a slide for stuffed animals, boomwhackers to slide eggs through the tube rather than whacking them on hard surfaces to make sounds (which is how you would “normally” play it), the back of a floor drum as a pot to cook pretend soup with kids, xylophone blocks as cake for dessert, a drum mallet to strum the guitar, and I can name other ways where I’ve used music creatively, thinking outside the box for patients. You have to think what are the GOALS you’re trying to reach, and how are you using music as a TOOL to reach those goals? Music therapists use music both traditionally and non-traditionally to reach non-musical goals. Unlike a traditional music educator who plays guitar to teach students how to strum and has everyone to follow, music therapists could use a guitar to teach how to strum, use it for play using toys, move it around in different positions and be flexible with the overall use of the instrument that follows the patient and their response to music. Music therapists are aware of how to utilize music to engage and target specific needs of individuals from the moment-to-moment experience. 

3) You never know what to expect as a music therapist. 

There are no fixed answers to anything. We need to let go of expectations and assumptions about various situations and circumstances, especially during sessions. I remember my supervisor who is a board-certified music therapist with almost 20 years of experience with music therapy, telling me he still gets nervous to this day walking into patient rooms, because it is a new experience for him each time. It is crucial that we remain open to whatever happens, to lean onto discomfort, to let go of the need to control and to simply go with the flow. I had one patient at CHOC where, when I went to check-in to ask if he was in the mood for some music, he responded with an enthusiastic “yes!” and gave me a huge smile. He seemed to be feeling a lot better than the last time I saw him when he was undergoing chemotherapy, so I got excited and started thinking to myself what songs would be good for him and which instruments I could use for those songs. I told him I’d be right back with my instruments which only took 5 minutes and walked right back to his room, only to see he was now crying after his mom refused to feed him chicken nuggets. He was not allowed to eat before his procedure, and he looked at me and shook his head. I had no choice but to put aside the session plan I had for him and adjust myself fully to that moment. I decided to pull out an ocean drum and strum relaxing chords on my guitar to provide relaxation and calm his emotions, and matched my humming to my guitar. I had no idea how the session was going to go after that and what to expect out of it, but I trusted my gut in that moment and decided that that was what was best for him. Then the next day, I walked into his room again to see he was feeling a lot better and was bursting with energy throughout the session so I matched myself to his energy level and provided that high stim he needed. Being a music therapist means you’re constantly having to deal with fluctuations (fluctuating referral calls, fluctuating moods of patients and families, fluctuating health conditions) and overall spontaneity- so it’s crucial that music therapists are flexible, open-minded, and adaptable to various circumstances. The only things to expect as music therapists are to expect the unexpected, expect discomfort, and expect the unknown. 

Small Business Tips from the Field: Meet Lisa Kember

Earlier this week, I had the possibility to capture up with Lisa Kember, Constant Call's Regional Development Supervisor for Eastern Canada. Lisa is a veteran business development, advertising, and interactions expert with a solid entrepreneurial background. She represents Constant Get in touch with throughout Eastern Canada, and also works to assist small companies construct further and a lot more successful consumer relationships using on the internet marketing.

Read on to figure out more about Lisa and get her little job ideas from the field.

Tell me a bit regarding your background and your role as one of Consistent Call's RDDs?

"I ran an advertising and also PR firm business for more than 10 years that I left out of in late 2009. I was planning to begin another business, however I had not rather found out just what! I was merely appreciating the break. I listened to that Constant Contact was looking for someone to construct the brand-- fairly unknown here at that time-- in Canada and also it seemed like a fun difficulty. I got to out.

I have actually now been right here over 3.5 years and also I enjoy it. I am passionate concerning small company. I love the function I have in motivating and also training advertising and marketing ideal techniques, aiding entrepreneurs with an idea, as well as identifying how you can market their product or services better. I am pleased to stand for a firm that is so concentrated on structure wonderful items as well as responding to the demands of our customers.

As for our success to this day in constructing the brand below-- between my counterpart in Western Canada, Man Steeves, and also myself in Eastern Canada, we have made superb invasions in the largest English-speaking districts (Ontario, BC, and also Alberta), with all the occasions as well as collaborations we have actually established. I still have great deals of work to do in Eastern Canada and there is merely a lot more possibility than there is time in the day."

What is the largest difficulty Canadian little jobs face?

"That possibly depends upon their phase of job, yet the many things I listen to continually depend on the locations of cash and business advancement and also marketing.

On the cash side, it has to do with financing business and obtaining accessibility to the resources needed to grow.

On business development side, we are a tiny market in Canada so growth can be restricted below. In order to grow, Canadian entrepreneurs need to quickly consider exporting their services and products, a challenge which adds complexity and linked costs.

With regard to marketing, I assume there is a high level of overwhelm! There is a lot buzz about brand-new advertising tools, from social networks to mobile, and also many new company owner obtain caught in the craze without having a clear strategy. It's terrific that Constant Get in touch with has us out in the area to attempt to simplify and also reduce with the noise to give genuine, practical remedies, and also techniques to promote growth."

Canada's Anti-Spam Regulation (CASL) is a warm subject now. Exactly how are small jobs reacting?

"Well, there is a good deal of issue and anxiety, plus a bit of cynicism combined in. I listen to individuals questioning whether this regulation will be truly enforceable and also whether or not it will truly have an effect. They are likewise wondering if this will cause them to have to discard their whole e-mail listing and also if e-mail advertising and marketing will certainly pass away as a result of CASL. Rumors of e-mail's death are premature, no inquiry. With regard to the anxiety of shedding their checklists, which they have actually functioned hard to develop, as an agent of Continuous Contact, I provide a clear message-- CASL is most likely just going to make your email advertising and marketing MORE efficient. If you build a permission-based checklist the manner in which CASL details (which is, incidentally, extremely aligned with just how Continuous Get in touch with has actually been teaching our customers to create checklists), then you will have a list of individuals who want to learn through you as well as are your finest resource of brand-new and repeat consumers."

Can you supply any type of suggestions for Canadian little businesses, and also those that market to Canada as they prepare for eventual application of the CASL legislation?

"Yes, and also it's very basic. Start currently! Integrate the practice of requesting for authorization right into every customer interaction that you have-- from a line in your email signature, to a concern you ask on every phone call with a consumer, to the face-to-face visits you participate in. If you don't ask, you won't have authorization as well as you'll miss out on the chance to effortlessly create repeat job. So ask for permission to include the individual possibility or consumer to your e-mail list, then track where you obtained approval (that tracking is required by CASL legislation), and finally, send out e-mail projects consistently and continually."

Are there any added marketing ideas or suggestions you need to offer little businesses?

"Simply three things ... First off, be seen! Obtain your name out in front of your target market regularly as well as continually. Your advertising efforts probably won't function the very first time. Don't lose hope-- it takes multiple touch indicate get people to get. So make use of all opportunities available.

Secondly, get them, maintain them, as well as inform them to bring their buddies. It sets you back more money to bring a new consumer in than it does to maintain an old one. So do whatever you can to maintain your clients. In my job, we had customers with us in year 10 that had come on board in year one. Some of them still call me for my marketing guidance, currently 14 years later on. You are visiting have to be familiar with your customers well, to service them to the most effective of your capacity as well as to "wow" them with your focus to details, because you want them to be with you for a long time!

Finally, measure every little thing. You should, in time, be familiar with precisely what each of your marketing tasks create finest for you. Check out the outcomes and take action based upon just what the information says. Why keep your old internet site up merely since it is pretty, if it isn't really pulling new leads for you? Watch the analytics, as well as construct your marketing tasks in reaction to the results.

For a perk pointer, how around this? I have a toddler in your home and also he is simply learning every little thing from putting socks on to consuming with a spoon. We reveal him what to do, then we say, 'ok currently you do it!' That is what I would say to any local business owner. You have to learn, however at some point, just venture out and try it. You'll never ever know everything regarding the marketing strategy you want to attempt, so it's finest to just try it out and also see what kind of impact you could obtain, after that readjust accordingly."