Tax Analyst III

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Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you will discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond, by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Join our Tax team at Thermo Fisher Scientific and contribute to managing complex tax processes across global operations. As a Tax Analyst III, you will take a senior individual-contributor role focused on transfer pricing and incentives. You will lead preparation and maintenance of transfer pricing models and documentation, coordinate with external advisors and internal stakeholders on documentation and audits, and manage R&D and other incentive programmes across multiple jurisdictions. This position offers exposure to complex international tax issues, opportunities to lead projects, and scope to improve processes and controls across the tax function.

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Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and own transfer pricing models and supporting workpapers
• Extract, manipulate and reconcile large datasets for TP analyses
• Coordinate preparation of TP documentation
• Update TP models and documentation for business or legislative changes
• Lead responses to TP enquiries and support tax audits
• Perform benchmarking and FAR analyses to support TP positions
• Manage R&D tax credit claims and other incentives across jurisdictions
• Analyse activities to identify qualifying R&D and incentive expenditure
• Prepare and submit claims and coordinate evidence collection
• Drive process improvements, automation and standard templates
• Lead projects, mentor junior team members and review their work
• Communicate tax/TP matters clearly to business and senior stakeholders

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, tax or related field preferred
• Professional accounting or tax qualification required (e.g., ACCA, CTA, ATT, CIMA).
• Typically 4+ years’ experience in tax, with demonstrable TP experience
• Practical experience preparing R&D tax credit claims or incentives preferred
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel
• Experience with ERP systems (Oracle, SAP, JDE) preferred
• Knowledge of OECD TP guidelines, BEPS and local TP rules
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail
• Proven ability to manage own workload and competing priorities
• Agile and comfortable working with changing requirements and ambiguity
• Creative problem-solver with a continuous improvement mindset
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

What we offer

At Thermo Fisher Scientific we hire the best, develop ourselves and each other, and recognise the power of being one team. We understand that you will want to grow both professionally and personally throughout your career, and therefore at Thermo Fisher Scientific you will benefit from an award-winning learning and development programme, ensuring you reach your potential.