Director, Tax

Director, Tax

Amicus Therapeutics is a global, patient-dedicated biotechnology company focused on discovering, developing, and delivering high-quality medicines for people living with rare metabolic diseases.

Position Summary

Reporting to the Chief Accounting Officer and Controller, this position will be responsible for leading the day-to-day tax compliance, accounting and reporting activities in the U.S. for the Company. This includes overseeing the tax compliance, consolidated tax provision and corporate income tax accounting and reporting and other adhoc projects. This position will also be responsible for providing strong project management support with regard to the tax governance and structure over the Company’s global organization.

Roles and Responsibilities

1.           Provide leadership and oversight for U.S tax matters, strategic financial advice and analyses, including modeling

2.           Establish, administer, oversee, and maintain tax policies, practices, and procedures to ensure compliance across tax obligations including, but not limited to, income tax preparation, tax compliance, sales and use tax, property tax, excise tax, owner/shareholder distributions, and tax audit management

3.           Review and oversight of the accurate completion of all domestic returns by providing guidance and direction to outside partners, including tax audit support

4.           Review and oversight and preparation of the quarterly and annual global tax provision in accordance with ASC740 to ensure accurate and timely tax accounting and disclosure; evaluate valuation allowances, APB 23 and uncertain tax positions

5.           Implementation, monitoring and documentation of transfer pricing policies

6.           Work closely with outside partners to develop short- and long-term strategies; accurately communicate the organization’s plans, needs, and concerns to outside partners and translate the strategies to actionable implementations

7.           Interact directly with auditor tax team and stay abreast of legislative changes and the associated impact on ASC740

8.           Ensure Company’s compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley internal control requirements, including monitoring the execution of tax and treasury policies, procedures and controls

9.           Partner with cross functional teams by serving as the subject matter expert as it relates to tax

10.         Provide support to the Accounting, Finance, Legal, Technical Operations, Commercial, Business Development and other teams as it relates to tax and due diligence issues for acquisitions, mergers, reorganizations and structuring

Requirements

Educational Requirements

•            Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting and/or Masters of Tax

Professional Work Experience Requirements

•            Qualified CPA with at least 15-20 years of relevant tax experience, preferably with a combination of Big 4 public accounting firm and U.S./corporate tax department

•            A strong working knowledge of accounting for income taxes

•            Experience with tax needs of global legal entity structure

•            Experience operating in a regulated (SOX) environment

•            Excellent communication skills

•            Ability to perform critical analysis, prioritize and problem solve

•            Strong interpersonal skills with ability to foster a collaborative, team environment

•            Strong organizational skills and have attention to detail

•            Ability to be flexible and adaptable to change

•            Attitude of being highly motivated and proactive

•            High level of proficiency working with MS Office 365 Suite with strong Excel skills, experience developing complex analyses with VLOOKUP, pivot tables and/or macros, as needed.

•            Capacity to perform self-audit to ensure data integrity and utmost accuracy at all times.

•            Stellar attention to detail

Other skills/Attributes

•            Demonstrated alignment with Amicus Mission Focus Behaviors

•            Passion for rare disease and patient focused

•            Good team player

Location

•            Preferred location is Princeton, NJ (with a hybrid work approach)

Travel

•            It is expected that any remote workers are able to travel to the office up to 10% of the time

We respect and celebrate the diversity of our people, their backgrounds and experiences and provide equal opportunity for all.  Our unique experiences, backgrounds and range of cultural perspectives enrich how we approach opportunities, pushing ideas as far and as fast as possible with patients always our top priority. Employee expertise, intelligence, and creativity drives our innovation, and our passion and commitment to excellence.  Our “Three Pillars of DEI” are interwoven into our Amicus culture and expands one person, one word, and one act at a time. For our employees, these three pillars are a touchstone for inspiration, guidance, and encouragement.

Amicus is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will judge all applicants based on their qualifications for the job, without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran, disability status or any other characteristics protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

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