Associate Manager - Tax Operations

About the Department

The Finance and Operations dept. brings insights and intelligence to inform decision making & drives digitalization and business solutions to attain NNI goals. Finance and Operations works closely across the organization to guide enterprise-wide resource allocations, investment choices, drive core operations and develop insights to drive growth and operational excellence across the value chain while innovating for future capabilities. Our focus on innovation ensures we're constantly building future capabilities. We're responsible for regulating accounting, upholding workplace safety, managing our supply chain and sampling, supporting technological and data innovation, insights and analytics, delivering patient support solutions, maintaining our facilities and assuring the integrity and completeness of all business transactions. At Novo Nordisk, you will have the opportunity to build a life-changing career in a global business environment. We encourage our employees to make the most of their talent, and we reward hard work and dedication with opportunities for continuous learning and personal development. Are you ready to maximize your potential with us?

The Position

To effectively manage and support the Corporate Tax Mission of ensuring a competitive level of tax in a responsible way. The position will focus on supporting internal and external compliance, owning indirect taxes, supervising Global Business Services personnel, leading the student assistant program, maintaining tax technology systems and ad-hod support for the U.S. Tax Operations Team, and advising business in U.S. Federal, international, state, and local tax practice.

Relationships

Position reports to Director of Tax Operations at Novo Nordisk Inc. (NNI). As part of NNI Finance, continual interaction with headquarters tax as well as line of business personnel at local operations and regional affiliates. Position will interact with external auditors, tax advisors and outside professionals as necessary. Position will prepare, supervise, and manage deliverables independently as well as leveraging members of shared service team, interns and at time, outside consultants.

Essential Functions

• Tax Operations:
  • Owns comprehensive tax filing calendars by updating and maintaining the tax calendar to ensure all deadlines are met within a timely manner
  • Assist in preparation of various workpapers related to internal and external tax compliance
  • Responsible that NNI and US affiliates timely and accurately submit all required indirect tax filings with respective payments as part owns comprehensive tax filing calendar
  • Serves as point of contact for Corporate Tax with regards to indirect taxes in the U.S. ensuring that any required support is delivered via internal resourced or by advisors
  • Preparation of tax account reconciliations and related support
  • Supports and maintains tax ledgers within SAP
  • Assists in providing information requested for the completion of annual reports and other filings completed by legal
  • OneSource administrative responsibilities including pushing and pulling data for OneSource Income Tax Provision and uploading data into OneSource Income Tax Compliance
  • Reviews federal, state and local correspondence and related notices and coordinates and prepares any notice responses
  • Provide support for tax audits and answers to inquiries from various taxing jurisdictions
• Resource Supervisor:
  • Supervises the Global Business Services (“GBS”) team in Bangalore, India that supports the North American tax group through an indirect line of authority including managing their workload, providing training and providing real time feedback
  • Owns student assistant/internship program including recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, training, and managing interns
  • Manage processes completed by GBS and interns to ensure that deliverables are properly planned, executed, and provided in a complete, accurate, and timely manner

• Business Advisement:
  • Understand the Novo Nordisk value chain, e.g., research, clinical development, manufacturing, and commercial operations to be in optimal position to provide tax advice to stakeholders
  • Maintain current knowledge of tax laws, provide tax research and documentation of key issues via tax memorandums
• Other Responsibilities:
  • Assist with the creation and maintenance of process documentation for all responsibilities
  • Support Tax Director and U.S. Tax Operations team with various ad hoc projects and analysis as required

Physical Requirements

0-10% overnight travel required.

Qualifications

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree required in accounting. CPA license or advanced degree strongly preferred
• A minimum of 4 years of corporate tax experience either in public accounting, private industry, or both with a Bachelor’s degree or a minimum of 3 years’ experience with a relevant Master’s
• Tax technical competency covering a broad range of complex U.S. Federal, State, and international tax matters. Indirect tax experience not required
• Requires demonstrated ability to work independently
• Ability to build relationships and collaborate extensively with Tax Operations team
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office. SAP, OneSource or similar experience required
• Ability to organize, effectively manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced matrix environment

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.

Novo Nordisk is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations.

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