Amgen US | Tax Manager Domestic Tax Reporting

What you will do

• 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.
• This is a remote role that requires effective collaboration with tax colleagues, internal business partners, and third-party service providers across global locations and time zones.
• You will apply sound tax judgment, stay current on changes in the business and tax law, proactively identify process improvements, and responsibly use automation, data analytics, and AI-enabled tools to strengthen the accuracy, efficiency, controls, documentation, and scalability of domestic reporting and compliance.
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• Amgen does not have an application deadline for this position; we will continue accepting applications until we receive a sufficient number or select a candidate for the position.
• In this role, you will manage assigned U.S. federal income tax compliance workstreams.
• You will also support domestic components of Amgen’s income tax provision and associated tax rate forecasts and assist with selected state income tax compliance review activities.
• Manage assigned components of U.S. federal income tax compliance, including return schedules, estimated tax payment calculations, and supporting workpapers.
• Coordinate data collection and issue resolution with Tax, Finance, Accounting, Treasury, Legal, business partners, and third-party service providers.
• Support current-year and extended tax rate forecasts, provision-to-return analyses, and balance sheet and cash flow explanations.
• Assist with the review of assigned state income tax returns and related apportionment data.
• Review selected U.S. business license and annual report filings, as needed.
• Support federal and state tax audits by gathering documentation, preparing responses, and tracking information requests.
• Maintain assigned tax reporting documentation and support the collection of entity and other information used in global reporting, as needed.
• Support the transition of selected compliance activities to the Internal Delivery Tax Team through documentation, training, and handoffs, as assigned.
• Research technical tax issues and complete special projects as needed.
• You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.
• Prepare and review assigned domestic components of Amgen’s income tax provision under ASC 740, including current and deferred taxes, permanent and temporary differences, uncertain tax positions, and supporting analyses for financial reporting.
• Review assigned domestic tax compliance work prepared by the Internal Delivery Tax Team and work collaboratively with team members across global locations and time zones to provide feedback, resolve questions, and support timely, consistent completion of deliverables.

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree and 8 years of accounting or finance experience.
• High school diploma / GED and 10 years of accounting or finance experience.
• Five or more years of experience in public accounting or a corporate tax function within a large multinational organization.
• Working knowledge of U.S. federal and state income tax laws and regulations.
• Experience preparing or reviewing federal income tax returns and related compliance workpapers, including consolidated return experience.
• Experience with ASC 740 income tax accounting, including deferred taxes, uncertain tax positions, and tax provision support.
• Experience with OneSource Income Tax Compliance and Tax Provision software.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Word, with familiarity with SAP or similar enterprise systems.
• Experience using automation, data analytics, or AI-enabled tools to improve tax processes, with sound judgment regarding data quality, controls, and review.
• Experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or other complex multinational industry.
• Ability to work independently in a remote environment and collaborate effectively across functions, global locations, and time zones, with strong written and verbal communication, analytical, organization, and project-management skills, sound judgment, and a commitment to quality and accountability.

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.

• 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)