Tax Manager, Tax Integration

The Amazon Tax department is a fast-paced, team-focused, dynamic environment. The Amazon Income Tax Reporting & Compliance team is seeking a Tax Professional with strong project management skills and experience in process improvement, tax transformation, gathering requirements, monitoring the activities and controlling the progression of the project to improve tax processes. The candidate will engage with subject matter experts across tax and potentially accounting, tech team members across multiple groups, third party providers and other stakeholders. This role will be part of a team that is driving the delivery of solutions that standardize, optimize, and transform tax processes that will scale as the volume of work increases as the business grows.

Successful candidates will have experience in tax and tax process improvement/transformation/integration as well as project management, working with tech teams, and overall knowledge of finance (supporting either accounting or tax). The candidate will need to be able to dive deep to uncover all critical project dependencies and remove roadblocks to ensure a successful development of a solution. A focus on bias for action will be necessary to drive projects forward despite ambiguity. The candidate will be responsible for preparing documents and communicate to stakeholders and leadership on project updates and to gain consensus and approvals, as required. This role will operate with independence and be expected to demonstrate an ability to collaborate and problem solve.

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Key job responsibilities

- Understand existing tax processes and expected outcomes; drive process improvements; enable streamlining to achieve operational efficiencies, bench marking, and development of performance metrics.

- Develop, organize, and manage multiple project plans leveraging existing tools. Document and communicate project status periodically as required, including preparation of materials to share with leadership.

- Take the lead role with project owners, sponsors, and subject matter experts to align on project and workstream objectives.

- Operationalize efficiencies between the Finance functions and tax, within the Reporting & Compliance team and across the tax organization as necessary.

- Engage tax and finance members to collaborate on ways to efficiently achieve results by leveraging technology.

- Document clear and actionable requirements coming from one or more impacted functions and demonstrating a solid working knowledge of requirements to project stakeholders and sponsors.

- Identify areas of risk to the project scope or timeline and escalate to program leadership in a timely manner.

- Develop plans to remediate technical debt, manual processes, and non-value added time spent by teams.

- Lead the documentation of processes focusing on documenting the tech solution, controls, and overall impact to the users.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience

- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications at an advanced level

- Experience working in a large public accounting firm or multi-national corporate tax department

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of maintaining and operating transaction tax calculation software (e.g. Vertex) experience

- Experience with VBA, Python, SQL, or other database language

- - Program/Project Management experience

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $80,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $172,900/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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