Tax Manager

Job Description – Tax Manager / Senior Tax Manager

(depending on experience)

Norstella is a premier and critical global life sciences data and AI solutions platform dedicated to improving patient access to life‑saving therapies. Norstella supports pharmaceutical and biotech companies across the full drug development lifecycle — from pipeline to patient. Our mission is simple: to help our clients bring therapies to market faster and more efficiently, ultimately impacting patient lives.

Norstella unites five market-leading brands (Citeline, Evaluate, MMIT, Panalgo, and The Dedham Group) that all have a shared vision of improving patient access to life‑saving therapy. Norstella delivers must‑have answers and insights for critical strategic, clinical, and commercial decision‑making. We help our clients:

• Accelerate the drug development cycle
• Make data driven commercial and financial decisions
• Match and recruit patients for clinical trials
• Assess competition and bring the right drugs to market
• Identify and address barriers to patient access
• Leverage the latest AI to turn data into insights for faster and better decision making

Norstella serves almost every pharmaceutical and biotech company in the world, along with regulators like the FDA, and payers. By providing critical proprietary data supporting AI‑driven workflows, Norstella helps clients make decisions faster and with greater confidence. Norstella’s investments in AI are transforming how data is consumed and decisions are made, disrupting inefficient legacy workflows and helping the industry become more efficient, innovative, and responsive to patient needs.

We are seeking a Tax Manager or Senior Tax Manager (depending on experience) to join Norstella’s growing finance organization. Reporting to the VP of Tax, Global Head of Tax, you will be a hands‑on owner of the global tax provision and a core member of our in‑house tax team. This is an ideal role for a technically strong tax professional who wants real ownership in a fast‑paced, multinational environment and who thrives as the company brings more of its tax function in‑house.

You will work across the group’s US, UK, India, and other international entities, with particular focus on the global tax provision (US GAAP and IFRS), US income and indirect tax compliance, and transfer pricing. The level of the role — Tax Manager or Senior Tax Manager — will be calibrated to the experience and capabilities of the successful candidate.

• Prepare the global tax provision (US GAAP and IFRS) and supporting forecasts for the group, including current and deferred tax, valuation allowances, and uncertain tax positions.
• Own provision work papers and calculations in One Source Tax Provision (OTP), maintaining data integrity across legal entities and jurisdictions.
• Prepare return‑to‑provision true‑ups and deferred tax roll forwards.
• Support tax disclosures in statutory and consolidated financial statements, and assist with external audit requests.
• Partner with Corporate Accounting, FP&A, and Treasury on tax reporting, forecasting, and planning.

• Manage timely and accurate US federal and state income tax compliance, coordinating with external preparers.
• Support coordination of foreign income tax filings across the group’s non‑US jurisdictions.
• Review return‑to‑provision items, estimated payments, foreign tax credits, and group relief.

• Own US sales and use tax compliance, including return preparation and filings through Avalara, nexus monitoring, and exemption certificate management.
• Respond to taxing authority notices and manage indirect tax registrations and documentation.
• Help set and maintain intercompany and transfer pricing policies, and support the operational application of those policies across entities.
• Coordinate with external transfer pricing advisors on documentation and analyses.
• Monitor intercompany transactions for consistency with policy.

• Support the transition of provision and indirect tax preparation in‑house, reducing reliance on outside providers.
• Help drive OTP optimization and,…