[Hiring] Tax Manager Domestic Tax Reporting @Amgen

Role Description

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients. The Tax Manager will report to the Director of Tax Reporting. 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.

In this role, you will manage assigned U.S. federal income tax compliance workstreams. Your primary focus will be the preparation and review of federal income tax return schedules, estimated tax payment calculations, and supporting work papers, as well as related coordination with internal partners and third-party service providers. 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.

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.

As a Tax Manager, you will:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Proactively identify and implement process improvements, including opportunities to responsibly use automation, data analytics, and AI-enabled tools, to strengthen accuracy, efficiency, controls, documentation, and scalability across domestic tax reporting and compliance processes.
• 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.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Doctorate degree
• OR Master’s degree and 2 years of accounting or finance experience
• OR Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of accounting or finance experience
• OR Associate’s degree and 8 years of accounting or finance experience
• OR High school diploma / GED and 10 years of accounting or finance experience

Requirements

• CPA license preferred.
• 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.

Benefits

• A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts.
• A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan.
• Stock-based long-term incentives.
• Award-winning time-off plans.
• Flexible work models where possible.