Amazon’s vision is to be Earth's most customer centriccompany. The growth of our international business (countriesoutside the USA) combined with increasingly complex tax legislationresulted in 2,000 plus indirect tax registrations in 75 countriesmaking over 35,000 indirect tax-related filings each year.
Amazon is seeking a Manager to join ourIndirect Tax Compliance Automation team. This team sits withinAmazon’s Indirect Tax Compliance organization. We are looking forsomeone to help transform the way we do compliance at Amazon bydeconstructing existing processes, analyzing them, optimizing,automating and rebuilding them, maximizing the use oftechnology.
Maximizing the use of technologysolutions is essential to meet the challenge of indirect taxcompliance and that is where the Indirect Tax Compliance AutomationTeam comes into play. We are a team within the complianceorganization responsible for operationalizing the use of technologyto the max. Rolling this out and enabling our compliance colleaguesto successfully use them. This might involve constructing newcompliance automation or enabling our colleagues to use technologythat already exists to its maximumadvantage.
An experienced indirect taxtechnology professional is sought to help us address this field ofworkglobally.
Keyjob responsibilities
The role will be responsible for:
- Driving the analyzing of compliance teams needs anddesigning of new compliance tools and processes.
-Identifying and articulating the technology needs, and constructingthe tax technology solutions.
Whilst you donot need to be able to “build” using the technology, anunderstanding of indirect tax compliance is required and anappreciation of how automated solutions are built is needed. Youneed to understand how technology can be used to improve complianceprocesses and eliminate inefficiency.
Ideallyyour experience will mean you will have:
- One footfirmly planted in indirect tax compliance and the other in the taxtechnology solutions space. - You will need the ability tothink-big and and have chance to input into the long term globalstrategy. - Have a strong bias for action and the ability todeliver results driving solutions over the line.
- Youwill need to thrive in highly complex distributed systemenvironments and strong communication skills in order to conveyyour vision of solutions.
The role requiresexceptional people skills to work alongside members of thecompliance teams and partner with other technologyteams.
We are open to hiring candidates towork out of one of the followinglocations:
London, GBR | Manchester,GBR
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• 10 years ofyears of experience in indirect tax (VAT/GST), with a publicaccounting firm, major law firm, or in industry.
• 6years of experience with indirect tax software to automatecompliance processes.
• User experience of desktop dataanalytics and technology tools including Alteryx and ExcelVBA
PREFERREDQUALIFICATIONS
• A bachelor’s degree or similarqualification or experience in Accounting, Tax, Business or Financedegree or related field.
• Significant experience ofinternational VAT in either an advisory capacity and/or acompliance environment.
• Strong organizational andproject management skills.
• Experience workingsuccessfully with globally diverse teams.
• Able to workin a fast paced, informal, and often ambiguous environment.
• Able to successfully work on multiple complex projectsat the same time.
• Takes ownership and responsibilityfor their work under minimal supervision.
• Organized,analytical and methodical with strong attention todetail.
• Excellent interpersonal, written and oralcommunication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to workeffectively on milestone driven projects.
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