McKesson
Pharmaceuticals and medical supplies distributor.
Manager – Indirect Tax - Sales and Use Tax Compliance
+ Annual bonus + Long-term incentive
Hybrid work arrangement in Irving.
About the job
- At least 8 years of sales tax accounting experience or related sales tax compliance experience.
- Knowledge of United States state and local sales and use tax and other transaction taxes.
- Competence in compliance activities, including data retrieval, analysis, reconciliation, and reporting.
- Competence in researching, analyzing, and applying law.
- Competence with Vertex Returns Software.
- Working knowledge of multiple enterprise resource planning systems, including SAP, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards.
- Ability to meet required deadlines.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- A 4-year degree in accounting or a related field.
- Prepare and file sales and use tax, gross receipts tax, and similar tax returns for assigned businesses, including payments, journal-entry support, tax calendar updates, account reconciliations, and retention of supporting documentation.
- Serve as liaison between Tax, Finance, Purchasing, Information Systems, Sales, and assigned business units.
- Participate in projects to streamline tax collection, self-accrual, reporting, reconciliation, remittance, and related controls.
- Assist senior tax leaders with product and service taxability research, acquisitions, audits, tax law changes, system initiatives, and other projects.
- Monitor operational, entity, product, system, acquisition, and transaction changes affecting tax compliance, registrations, or business licenses, and implement approved changes.
- Maintain business license calendars and manage assigned registrations, renewals, amendments, closures, payments, and supporting records.
- Maintain a current log of tax and business license notices, ensure timely responses, and track each notice through resolution.
- Support acquisitions, integrations, separations, and new business activities by coordinating registrations, licenses, return setup, data requirements, and ongoing compliance ownership.
- Maintain accurate standard operating procedures, desk procedures, control documentation, and backup coverage for assigned returns and business licenses.
- Provide technical guidance, review support, and cross-training, and escalate material compliance, deadline, data, system, or staffing risks.
- Resolve compliance issues within the company and with tax jurisdictions.
- Communicate technical transaction tax information and related accounting information.
- Interact with peers, business clients, taxing jurisdictions, and management.
- Certified Public Accountant and/or Certified Member of the Institute.
- A master's degree in taxation or a related field.
About the company
McKesson is a global healthcare distributor and services provider. It buys pharmaceuticals and medical products from manufacturers and distributes them to pharmacies, hospitals, and other healthcare facilities, acting as an intermediary in the supply chain. Its core work includes logistics and supply chain management, ensuring medicines and medical supplies reach customers on time and safely. McKesson also offers technology solutions to help healthcare providers manage operations and procurement. Compared with competitors, it leverages a very large-scale network and integrated services—combining distribution, logistics, and technology—across providers, pharmacies, and manufacturers. The company aims to support the healthcare system by keeping essential medical supplies available and helping healthcare facilities run more efficiently, ultimately improving patient care.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Irving, Texas
Founded
1833
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What believers are saying
- McKesson signed to buy Precision Medicine Group for $2.25 billion on August 25, 2026.
- Precision adds CRO, biomarker intelligence, lab services, and commercialization support to oncology.
- McKesson raised its outlook and returned $2.5 billion through buybacks this year.
What critics are saying
- ShinyHunters breached third-party apps on August 25, 2026, and demanded $55.2 million.
- HIBP tied the leak to 6.4 million breached accounts on September 10, 2026.
- Another identity breach would destroy trust with hospitals and pharmacies reliant on McKesson.
What makes McKesson unique
- McKesson moves roughly one-third of North American prescriptions through its distribution network.
- Oncology & Multispecialty revenue reached $14.2 billion in Q1 fiscal 2026.
- Sarah Cannon, Ontada, and U.S. Oncology Network create a rare care-services moat.
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Supply chain vulnerability isn't just about code. Jason Nickerson has spent years talking about the risks of centralized infrastructure in the hosting world, but the same consolidation that makes cloud computing efficient is creating massive single points of failure in its healthcare system. McKesson, a titan that effectively keeps the lights on for hospitals and pharmacies across the United States, is currently dealing with a massive breach and subsequent service degradation. According to a recent report, hackers are claiming to have walked away with millions of patient records while the company struggles to maintain its normal distribution of medicines and devices. This isn't just a matter of leaked names and dates; it is an operational bottleneck that stops the flow of physical goods to people who actually need them. The cost of consolidation. In the hosting business, if a major control panel or infrastructure provider has an outage, Jason Nickerson see it as a business catastrophe. When it happens to a medical distributor, it becomes a public health crisis. The business implication here is clear: its push toward hyper-efficiency through massive, centralized distributors has created a landscape where one successful breach can paralyze an entire sector. For McKesson, the challenge isn't just the PR nightmare of stolen data - it's the reality that their systems are so intertwined with their logistics that the breach has physically slowed down their ability to deliver products. Jason Nickerson is seeing a trend where attackers no longer just want to encrypt your files for a quick payday. They are targeting the friction points of the economy. If you can disrupt the distribution of medicine, you aren't just holding data hostage; you're holding the supply chain hostage. This puts a level of pressure on a company that a standard database leak simply can't match. It's a calculated move to force a settlement by making the operational pain unbearable. I've seen enough server migrations to know that recovery is never as fast as the initial press release suggests. If they are already admitting to service degradation, the IT teams in those distribution centers are likely having a very long month. The long view. Security is no longer a department you fund just to check a box for your insurance provider. In a world where your digital integrity dictates your physical output, failing to secure the perimeter is the same as locking the front door but leaving the loading dock wide open. Jason Nickerson need to stop treating data breaches as isolated IT incidents and start viewing them as the fundamental business risks they have become.