Executive Director, Tax Planning

Job Description

750 million. That is how many lives our products touch and while we’re proud of that fact, in this world of digital and technological transformation, we must ask ourselves this: how can we continue to improve and extend even more people’s lives ?

The Executive Director, Tax Planning role brings exciting opportunities to lead and oversee the tax planning function with the US being a critical focus of the Novartis corporate strategy. This role will be responsible for identifying and driving tax-planning strategies and initiatives; leading the tax aspects of M&A and BD&L transactions; and incorporating tax planning into the tax compliance and tax reporting.

The Executive Director will report to the VP, Head U.S. Tax and Insurance and partner with local and cross-border corporate and functional leaders.

Your Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Lead and oversee domestic and U.S. international tax planning in close alignment with the global tax strategy. Identify, evaluate and implement opportunities to minimize the global effective tax rate and cash taxes while effectively managing risk.
• Provide technical leadership and actively participate in federal, state, local, and international research and tax planning activities. Assess the impact of new legislation, business restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, accounting methods or pronouncements. Monitor federal, state, international and OECD legislative and statutory tax changes and evaluate the potential impact to the Company.
• Lead U.S. M&A for acquisitions, business development and licensing deals, joint ventures, divestitures and restructurings including due diligence, design and implementation of structuring, financing and post-acquisition integration.
• Support all aspects of transfer pricing including cross-border funds flow and financing, documentation, intercompany agreements and audit defense.
  Provide technical leadership and actively participate in federal, state, local, and international research and tax planning activities. Assess the impact of new legislation, business restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, accounting methods or pronouncements. Monitor federal, state, international and OECD legislative and statutory tax changes and evaluate the potential impact to the Company.
• Assess and mitigate tax risk and determine action regarding uncertain international and U.S. tax rules and application, and the changing regulatory landscape.
• Ensure all tax aspects of tax planning and transactions are properly reported and appropriately disclosed in the tax compliance and tax reporting.
• Strategize and partner on resolution of tax controversies involving subject matter experts, business and support functions in the process.
• Strategize and direct resolution of tax controversies involving internal stakeholders in the process. Team with Public Affairs to shape tax policy development and support advocacy efforts of external organizations. Provide technical feedback on federal and state legislation. Strong business collaboration with local and cross-border corporate and functional leaders.
• Collaborate within the tax department to develop professional tax staff and foster a team-based work environment providing supervision and development opportunities for the team.
• Lead continuous improvement practices for the tax planning function. Other projects and duties as required/assigned.

EEO Statement

The Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers and take pride in maintaining a diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. We are committed to building diverse teams, representative of the patients and communities we serve, and we strive to create an inclusive workplace that cultivates bold innovation through collaboration and empowers our people to unleash their full potential.

Minimum Requirements

What you will bring to this role:

• Minimum
  
  Education Requirements:
  
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