Description

Job Description – Tax Manager / Senior Tax Manager

(depending on experience)

About Norstella

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.

About The Position:

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.

Key Responsibilities:

Tax Provision & Reporting

• 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 workpapers and calculations in OneSource 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.

Tax Compliance

• 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.

Indirect Tax

• 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.

Transfer Pricing

• 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.

Operations and Transformation

• Support the transition of provision and indirect tax preparation in-house, reducing reliance on outside providers.
• Help drive OTP optimization and, where relevant, implementation, along with broader process automation and standardization.
• Stay current on global tax developments (e.g., Pillar Two and EU VAT changes) and communicate implications across the business.

What the Senior Tax Manager Level Looks Like:

At the Senior Tax Manager level, we would expect broader and more independent ownership of the global provision, a leading role in OTP implementation and process build-out, more direct management of external advisors, and the judgment to spot and resolve issues with limited oversight. If your experience is deeper in some of these areas than others, we still encourage you to apply, and we will calibrate the level accordingly.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive corporate tax experience for the Tax Manager level, and 8+ years for the Senior Tax Manager level, including time in public accounting (Big 4 or equivalent) and ideally in-house at a multinational. Level is driven as much by the depth of global provision ownership and OTP experience as by years.
• Material, hands-on experience preparing the US tax provision under ASC 740, and global tax provision experience under US GAAP and IFRS (IAS 12).
• Hands-on experience with OneSource Tax Provision (OTP).
• Experience with US sales and use tax compliance using Avalara.
• Strong technical foundation, excellent communication skills, and the ability to balance hands-on execution with sound judgment.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA or foreign equivalent (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CTA); strong candidates without certification will be considered.
• OTP implementation experience.
• Familiarity with European direct and indirect tax regimes, including VAT.
• Prior in-house experience at a multinational company.

Location & Work Style:

Preference for candidates based in the Chicago area or Central Time Zone; other US locations will be considered

Benefits:

• Medical and prescription drug benefits
• Health savings accounts or flexible spending accounts
• Dental and vision benefits
• Basic life and AD&D benefits
• 401k retirement plan with company match
• Company paid short and long-term disability
• Paid parental leave
• Open vacation policy and company holidays

Compensation:

The expected base salary for this position ranges from [$145,000 to $160,000]. Final title and base salary will be determined based on the successful candidate’s experience and capabilities. It is not typical for offers to be made at or near the top of the range. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including relevant skills, training, experience, education, and, where applicable, licensure or certifications obtained. Market and organizational factors are also considered. In addition to base salary and a competitive benefits package, successful candidates are eligible to receive a discretionary bonus.

Our guiding principles for success at Norstella:

• Bold, Passionate, Mission-First We have a lofty mission to Smooth Access to Life Saving Therapies, and we will get there by being bold and passionate about the mission and our clients. Our clients and the mission in what we are trying to accomplish must be in the forefront of our minds in everything we do.
• Integrity, Truth, Reality We make promises that we can keep, and goals that push us to new heights. Our integrity offers us the opportunity to learn and improve by being honest about what works and what doesn’t. By being true to the data and producing realistic metrics, we are able to create plans and resources to achieve our goals.
• Kindness, Empathy, Grace We will empathize with everyone’s situation, provide positive and constructive feedback with kindness, and accept opportunities for improvement with grace and gratitude. We use this principle across the organization to collaborate and build lines of open communication.
• Resilience, Mettle, Perseverance We will persevere – even in difficult and challenging situations. Our ability to recover from missteps and failures in a positive way will help us to be successful in our mission.
• Humility, Gratitude, Learning We will be true learners by showing humility and gratitude in our work. We recognize that the smartest person in the room is the one who is always listening, learning, and willing to shift their thinking.

Norstella is an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, color, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age. Our ethos is to respect and value people’s differences, to help everyone achieve more at work as well as in their personal lives so that they feel proud of the part they play in our success. We believe that all decisions about people at work should be based on the individual’s abilities, skills, performance and behavior and our business requirements. Norstella operates a zero-tolerance policy to any form of discrimination, abuse or harassment.

All legitimate roles with Norstella will be posted on Norstella’s job board which is located at norstella.com/careers. If a role is not posted on this job board, a candidate should assume the role is not a legitimate role with Norstella. Norstella is not responsible for an application that may be submitted by or through a third-party and candidates should proceed with extreme caution if a third-party approaches them about an open role with Norstella. Norstella will never ask for anything of value or any type of payment during or as part of any recruitment, interview, or pre-hire onboarding process. If you are aware of or have reason to believe a job posting purportedly for a role with Norstella is fraudulent or otherwise not authorized by Norstella, please contact the Company using the following email address: ApplicationHelp@norstella.com