Associate Director, Transfer Pricing — Hybrid & Global Impact

Merck; Rahway (NJ); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Merck & Co., Rahway, NJ, is seeking an Associate Director of Transfer Pricing to lead the development, monitoring, and defense of global TP policies across intercompany transactions. The role requires translating complex data into actionable insights for Tax, Finance, and business leaders while collaborating with cross-functional teams worldwide.

The ideal candidate has a strong foundation in accounting, finance, and tax, with expertise in the arm’s-length standard, Section 482, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Tax, Economics, Business
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in corporate tax, public accounting, transfer pricing, international tax, finance, accounting, economic consulting, or business advisory roles.
• Strong accounting and financial analysis background, including the ability to understand income statements, cost structures, legal entity financials, allocations, margins, and profitability.
• Working knowledge of transfer pricing principles, including the arm’s-length standard, functional analysis, comparability, intercompany pricing methods, documentation, and audit defense.
• Strong Excel and financial modeling skills, with the ability to organize, analyze, and summarize large data sets.

Responsibilities

• Support the development, implementation, monitoring, and defense of our Company's global transfer pricing policies for intercompany transactions.
• Analyze complex financial, accounting, operational, and legal entity data to support transfer pricing conclusions, business decisions, and audit-ready documentation.
• Build practical financial models and analytical tools to evaluate legal entity profitability, intercompany pricing outcomes, service allocations, royalty charges, manufacturing results, and other transfer pricing matters.
• Translate large or complex data sets into simple, clear, and actionable insights for Tax, Finance, and business stakeholders.
• Coordinate with U.S. and non-U.S. Tax, Finance, Accounting, Treasury, Legal, Manufacturing, R&D, Commercial, and other business teams to execute intercompany pricing policies and address transfer pricing issues.
• Support transfer pricing analyses related to manufacturing, product supply, distribution, R&D services, manufacturing services, management service fees, intercompany licenses, royalties, and other cross-border arrangements.
• Monitor and validate transfer pricing results, including legal entity margins, functional income statements, service charges, allocation methodologies, and true-up calculations.
• Assist in evaluating intercompany agreements and ensuring that contractual terms are aligned with business substance, accounting results, and transfer pricing documentation.
• Support U.S. and global transfer pricing documentation, audit defense, tax controversy, and responses to information requests from tax authorities.
• Partner with internal stakeholders and external advisors to gather data, understand business facts, prepare analyses, and develop supportable transfer pricing positions.
• Identify opportunities to improve transfer pricing processes, reporting, controls, data quality, and use of technology.
• Communicate complex transfer pricing, accounting, and international tax concepts in a clear and practical manner to both tax and non-tax audiences.

Skills

Transfer pricing knowledge

Advanced Excel

Financial modeling

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Tax, Economics, Business

Tools

SAP

Power BI

Alteryx

Business Objects

Job description

Merck & Co., Rahway, NJ, is seeking an Associate Director of Transfer Pricing to lead the development, monitoring, and defense of global TP policies across intercompany transactions. The role requires translating complex data into actionable insights for Tax, Finance, and business leaders while collaborating with cross-functional teams worldwide.

The ideal candidate has a strong foundation in accounting, finance, and tax, with expertise in the arm’s-length standard, Section 482, and