Associate Director, Tax Counsel

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Position summary

The Associate Tax Director, Tax Counsel provides tax strategy, planning, and execution on a global scale. You will be part of a close-knit team of other lawyers and a paralegal at a New York City location and collaborate closely with various business stakeholders worldwide in a fast-paced and dynamic environment to ensure that our tax initiatives align with our company goals and growth.

Major Duties & Responsibilities:

• Analyze U.S. and foreign tax issues for various internal and external transactions, including U.S. international tax analysis under GILTI, Subchapter C and K, and other provisions, support and reporting of the Company’s position for the manufacturing exception under subpart F (“substantial contribution”), and Pillar II analysis.
• Ensure proper integration planning and execution for acquisitions, divestures, legal entity restructurings, cross-border transactions, licensing arrangements, collaborations, partnerships, and other strategic transactions including any business changes occurring globally, partnering with external advisors when needed.
• Advise and partner with other stakeholders across the company, including finance, business development, legal, HR, commercial, R&D, and manufacturing departments, on tax efficient and compliant operations and understand business needs and objectives.
• Provide tax-efficient cash management planning advice, working closely with the treasury team.
• Provide tax advice and financial modeling of taxes for the company’s ongoing and new business development initiatives.  
• Monitor and analyze federal, state, and foreign legal developments and changes for impacts to the company to ensure proper compliance.
• Develop strategies to address potential challenges for federal, foreign, and state and local tax controversies.
• Coordinate with tax compliance and provision functions to ensure proper reporting of transactions.
• Support the foreign markets in managing relationships with external tax advisors and local tax authorities.
• Support the development and implementation of transfer pricing policies and strategies to comply with transfer pricing regulations and documentation requirements.

Required Skills:

• J.D., bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance is a plus, with LL.M preferred.
• 4+ years corporate tax experience at a law firm, big 4 accounting firm, and/or corporate tax department.
• Foundation in federal corporate income tax analysis, particularly subchapter C, M&A, subpart F (including substantial contribution analysis), foreign tax credit planning, and transfer pricing.
• Well-rounded expertise in global operations, US and international tax issues, international tax planning, transfer pricing, and cross-border M&A.
• Strong understanding of tax accounting preferred.
• Strong organizational, analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills with proven ability to solve multidimensional problems creatively.
• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks in fast-paced environment.
• Business-oriented with desire and ability to collaborate cross functionally across the company.
• Proactive in identifying tax issues, forming and proposing solutions, and implementing projects.

The starting compensation for this job is a range from $141,000 - $178,000 plus incentive cash and stock opportunities (based on eligibility).  The starting pay rate takes into account characteristics of the job, such as required skills and where the job is performed. Final, individual compensation will be decided based on demonstrated experience. 

Eligibility for specific benefits listed on our careers site may vary based on the job and location. For more on benefits, please visit https://careers.bms.com/life-at-bms/.

Benefit offerings are subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect and may include the following: Medical, pharmacy, dental and vision care. Wellbeing support such as the BMS Living Life Better program and employee assistance programs (EAP). Financial well-being resources and a 401(K). Financial protection benefits such as short- and long-term disability, life insurance, supplemental health insurance, business travel protection and survivor support. Work-life programs include paid national holidays and optional holidays, Global Shutdown Days between Christmas and New Year’s holiday, up to 120 hours of paid vacation, up to two (2) paid days to volunteer, sick time off, and summer hours flexibility. Parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military leave. Family care services such as adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, fertility/infertility benefits, support for traveling mothers, and child, elder and pet care resources. Other perks like tuition reimbursement and a recognition program.

If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

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On-site Protocol

BMS has an occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

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