Director - Tax Audits and Legal Counsel

Job Description

Our Finance team brings together our financial perspectives into our overall strategic and tactical decision making. We use state-of-the-art techniques for financial analysis, planning, accounting, reporting and performance evaluation. This allows the organization to continue advancing medical innovation and improve lives.

Position Description:

This position is a key role in the Tax Organization, responsible for managing the audit process, developing the audit strategy and involves working closely with the Internal Revenue Service and various agencies. This is an extremely visible role both within Tax and throughout the Company. This position reports to the Executive Director – Tax Audits and Tax Counsel.

Primary Activities:

• Independently manage audit process, which includes, but not limited to Transfer Pricing, Domestic, International and Research and Development Credit

• Assist the Executive Director - Tax Audits with developing overall Audit Strategy

• Direct interaction and negotiation with Internal Revenue Service and other agencies

• Manage internal staff and external consultants

• Prepare and review responses to Information Document Requests (IDRs) issued by the IRS or other agencies using information gathered from Compliance, Transfer Pricing, Planning and Business Development areas

• Support strategic forward-looking audit planning, which includes understanding reserve analysis, compliance process and impacts of current transactions on future audit cycles and improvement of current process

• Research, review and prepare various required filings, as necessary, that might typically occur during an IRS audit, which could include for example: repatriation requests, competent authority notifications, requests for technical advice, and other issues associated with audit procedures

• Assist with the formal process of administrative appeals as necessary

Position Qualifications:

Education Minimum Requirement:

• Minimum educational requirement for the position is a JD degree and/or a CPA

• LLM, MST or MBA is a plus

Required Experience and Skills:

• A minimum of 7 years of combined public accounting, law firm experience in Tax Audit, Tax Compliance, Tax Accounting or Tax Planning

• Comfortable working directly with the IRS or other agencies on Audit issues

• Proven track record of strong relationship building and effective business communication skills; strong analytical, problem solving and project management skills

• Experience in managing a significant workload, with the ability to juggle multiple requests simultaneously

• Ability to be proactive and take initiative

• Understanding of the tax compliance function, tax code and audit procedures

• Ability to interpret technical tax issues and provide guidance on IRS procedural issues

Our Support Functions deliver services and make recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the culture of our organization. Our Support Functions include HR, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.

Who we are …

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for …

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

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Requisition ID:R189353