Amgen India | Manager Indirect Tax Compliance

Responsibilities

• As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.
• For this new role, we are seeking an Indirect Tax Compliance Manager to assist establishing a Center of Excellence (CoE) focused on VAT and GST compliance across multiple regions and managing Amgen’s VAT/GST compliance.
• This role is pivotal in shaping the future of indirect tax operations and driving compliance efficiency.
• The successful candidate will be a strong team player with a passion for technology, automation, and process excellence.
• As Manager Indirect Tax Compliance you will be reporting to the Senior Manager Indirect Tax Compliance.
• Ensure accurate and timely VAT filings and reporting in line with global and regional regulations.
• Monitor VAT/GST changes and assess impact on compliance processes and technology set-up.
• Partner with regional finance and tax to ensure local compliance requirements are met consistently.
• Assist with implementation of automation tools and maintenance of an indirect tax engine to streamline VAT compliance processes.
• Collaborate with IT and external vendors.
• Act as a trusted collaborator to tax, finance, and business partners on VAT/GST compliance matters.
• Maintain indirect tax technology set-up.
• Work on process improvements
• Works accurately and detailed within a given deadline

Requirements

• The knowledge and skills necessary to perform the duties of this position are typically acquired through the following combination of education, experience and knowledge, or the equivalent.
• Doctorate degree and 1 year of tax experience OR.
• Associate’s degree and 8 years of tax experience OR.
• High school diploma / GED and 10 years of tax experience.
• Academic degree or equivalent diploma in Accounting / Finance, Tax Law or Tax Economics.
• Experience of EU VAT alongside a working knowledge of cross-border VAT/GST outside of EU is required.
• Demonstrated capability to learn quickly, being open and flexible to changes, in a multi-national environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills, team player, and highly customer focused.
• Strong computer skills with emphasis on SAP, S/4 Hana DRC and Vertex.
• Experience in VAT and GST within an international VAT compliance team.
• High level in local language or any other major language.
• Demonstrates written and oral communication and collaboration skills.
• Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of tax experience OR
• Experience in Pharmaceutical Industry

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)