Tax Manager EMEA

About the Role

What if your tax expertise could do more than manage compliance — what if it could help change patients' lives? It might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think about a tax role but at Bristol Myers Squibb, everything connects back to our purpose: transforming patients' lives through science. And the team that keeps our tax operations running with precision and integrity? They're part of that story too.

We're looking for a Tax Manager to join our European Tax Centre of Excellence (COE) in Chester - a role where your technical skills meet real business influence and where the work you do every day genuinely matters.

Key Responsibilities

• Run the full direct tax cycle for your own markets - leading corporate income tax return preparation with local external advisers, applying genuine technical challenge to their work, and making sure nothing falls through the cracks.
• Gain hands-on US GAAP experience - preparing and submitting US tax reporting including quarterly current and deferred tax provisions using TaxStream technology.
• Work across the full breadth of tax governance - managing UK-specific requirements including Senior Accounting Officer (SAO), Tax Strategy publication, Corporate Criminal Offence (CCO), and the evolving world of Pillar Two.
• Be a genuine internal consultant - advising finance and business stakeholders on tax matters, explaining complex technical requirements in language they can act on, and building the kind of trusted relationships that make you indispensable.
• Shape how tax is done, not just do it - contributing to the COE's strategy around standardisation, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Stay ahead of legislative change - monitoring developments across your markets, analysing their impact, and proactively communicating what matters to the people who need to know.

What You'll Gain

• Breadth that most tax roles simply don't offer. European direct tax, US GAAP reporting, transfer pricing exposure, Pillar Two, UK tax governance - all under one role, in one team.
• Access to leading external advisers. You won't be working in isolation. You'll collaborate with top-tier advisory firms, learn from their expertise, and develop the skills to challenge and manage them effectively.
• Real stakeholder visibility. You'll regularly engage with senior finance leaders and business partners globally.
• Flexible, hybrid working from our modern office in Chester. With the 50% hybrid-working model, you’ll get to collaborate and build supportive working relationships with the large tax team, as well as others in the ECC, whilst creating a healthy work-life balance.
• The BMS mission as your backdrop. When you're filing that return, managing that audit, or navigating a piece of new legislation — you're doing it in support of a company that is genuinely working to help patients with serious diseases.