Amgen India | Tax Manager – US Direct – Tax Reporting

Key responsibilities

• Manage, coach, and develop a team of six Tax Associates, setting clear expectations, assigning work, providing regular feedback, and supporting performance and career development in partnership with the Senior Manager.
• Coordinate with the Senior Manager on team priorities, workload, capacity, coverage, and development needs, and support consistent management of the India tax team.
• Plan and monitor the team’s day-to-day deliverables across assigned U.S. federal, international, and state and local tax compliance and reporting workstreams.
• Review work prepared by Tax Associates and provide timely feedback to help ensure deliverables are accurate, complete, well-supported, and submitted on schedule.
• Coordinate with U.S.-based tax stakeholders to clarify requirements, align on deliverable timelines, and address routine questions; promptly escalate significant technical, timing, or control issues to the Senior Manager.
• Prepare selected complex U.S. tax compliance schedules, calculations, and supporting analyses, and review related work prepared by Tax Associates, including quarterly tax calculations and reporting schedules, as assigned.
• Coordinate assigned Country-by-Country Reporting (CbCR) activities, including support for Form 8975 and related deliverables, and help maintain the associated review process and documentation.
• Oversee the team’s work supporting annual reports for U.S. legal entities and business license renewals, coordinating with external providers and U.S. stakeholders as needed.
• Maintain and reinforce operating controls, documentation standards, and established procedures within assigned workstreams.
• Identify and recommend opportunities to streamline processes, standardize work, and use automation or analytics tools to improve efficiency and quality.
• Build the team’s technical capability through ongoing coaching, knowledge-sharing, and practical guidance on U.S. corporate tax principles.
• Direct – Tax Reporting manages a team of six Tax Associates supporting U.S. tax compliance and reporting within the India Global Capability Center (GCC).
• Working with the Senior Manager and U.S.-based tax stakeholders, the Manager helps ensure accurate and timely execution of tax deliverables, provides technical guidance to the team, raises issues promptly, and identifies opportunities to improve processes and controls.

Requirements

• Relevant experience in U.S. corporate tax compliance or reporting, including experience reviewing tax work.
• Working knowledge of U.S. federal and state tax requirements and exposure to U.S. international tax reporting.
• Experience guiding or supervising team members, preferably in a shared services or Global Capability Center environment.
• Strong Excel skills and experience with tax software and ERP systems.
• Big Four public accounting experience or an in-house tax role at a multinational company.
• Exposure to ASC 740, Country-by-Country Reporting, and U.S. legal entity reporting requirements.
• Experience with tax platforms such as CorpTax, OneSource, or GoSystem and ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle.
• Familiarity with U.S. international tax regimes, R&D tax credit issues, or state and local tax compliance.
• Experience with process automation or analytics tools such as Alteryx or Tableau.
• Clear verbal and written communication skills for effective collaboration across regions.
• Strong organization and project management skills to manage multiple deliverables and deadlines.
• Sound judgment in resolving routine issues and escalating significant risks or decisions.

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)