Amgen India | International Tax Manager

Responsibilities

• You will support and coordinate analysis, planning and implementation of cross-jurisdictional tax projects while coordinating relationships with external advisors, supporting interactions with tax authorities and working with cross-functional internal stakeholders.
• The ideal candidate is a self-motivated team player with excellent communication skills who has the relevant tax technical expertise to effectively analyze the tax impacts of business transactions and projects and a proven track record in efficiently implementing and executing on projects and workstreams.
• The role is an important position for the business with exposure to senior management in the tax and broader finance teams.
• You will be part of Amgen’s tax planning and controversy group in a world class tax department that provides global tax planning, tax audit defense, transfer pricing and tax reporting for the Company.
• You will work closely with the rest of the tax planning, transfer pricing and tax provision teams as well as with other finance and business stakeholders.
• Partner closely with local India finance, legal, HR, treasury and other cross-functional teams as the tax representative on various India business related projects.
• Work under the direction of senior tax leaders and with external advisors to support the planning, analysis and implementation of various international tax projects.
• Partner with local and regional finance and tax reporting to ensure compliance with Amgen’s international corporate tax reporting and tax return obligations in various jurisdictions.
• Work on tax planning projects such as IP planning, intercompany debt financing, restructuring of entities, organizational structure clean-up and elimination of entities.
• Support the US GAAP quarterly and annual tax provision process and comply with related Sarbanes Oxley requirements.
• Monitor international tax changes, analyze and interpret global tax advice from external advisors, working with the business and finance teams to implement.
• Support execution of audit defense workstreams for significant international and cross-border tax matters, including evaluating tax authority positions and coordinating technical and factual responses.
• Assist with the preparation of information request responses and other submissions, ensuring that positions are technically sound, aligned with agreed strategy and delivered on schedule.
• Improve processes and drive efficiencies including through the use of AI and other technology.
• Support specific tax planning projects with a technology and transfer pricing focus, including working on and improving global transfer pricing modelling tools and technology to ensure results are in line with the policies and target profits of the Group.

Requirements

• Technical knowledge around Indian business taxes and international tax issues including Pillar 2, foreign tax credits, transfer pricing, US international tax issues and OECD developments.
• Good knowledge of US GAAP and where relevant local GAAP relating to tax.
• Technological aptitude and experience using and improving technology-enabled processes and tools.
• Familiarity with tax software and tax research engines an advantage.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Self-motivated – able to work both individually and as a member of a team.
• Ability to manage workstreams in an effective and efficient manner and quickly adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong desire to develop and advance one’s career within tax.
• Proven track record of successful project management.
• Strong interpersonal skills and a professional approach.
• Prior pharma experience an advantage.

Amgen Inc.

Amgen was founded in 1980 in Thousand Oaks, California, as Applied Molecular Genetics. Still based in Thousand Oaks, it is a biotechnology company that discovers, develops, makes and sells medicines, including Prolia and Evenity for bone health, Repatha for high cholesterol, Enbrel and Otezla for inflammatory diseases, and Kyprolis and Blincyto for cancers. Its shares trade on Nasdaq under the symbol AMGN, and it became part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 2020. The purchase of Horizon Therapeutics in 2023 added medicines for rare diseases. In 2024 Amgen announced a technology and innovation site in HITEC City, Hyderabad, set up first to build technology and digital tools for its global organisation and then to add work in AI, data science and other global functions. The Indian entity is Amgen Technology Private Limited.

Finance hiring in Hyderabad covers financial planning and analysis, technology project controls, accounts payable statements and reconciliations, transactional finance, global distribution finance and expense audit. A sizeable group of tax roles spans indirect tax compliance, international tax, US federal direct tax and tax reporting, and tax technology, while contracts and pricing associates work on Medicaid rebates and chargebacks. Roles run from associate to director, the most senior FP&A post asking for 18 or more years. FP&A and finance manager postings name a Chartered Accountant, Cost Accountant, CPA or a master's degree in finance, economics or business administration, and the US tax roles look for a CA or US CPA.

• Industry: Biotechnology: discovery, development, manufacture and sale of medicines for bone health, cardiovascular disease, inflammatory diseases, cancer and rare diseases
• Headquarters: Thousand Oaks, California, United States (Amgen Inc., listed on Nasdaq as AMGN)
• In India: Amgen Technology Private Limited, a technology and innovation site in HITEC City, Hyderabad (announced in 2024)