Experience in indirect tax (VAT/GST);
- Experience with indirect tax software to automate compliance processes;
- User experience of desktop data analytics and technology tools including Alteryx and Excel VBA.
Job summary
Amazon is seeking a Manager to join our Indirect Tax Compliance Automation team.
This team sits within Amazon's Tax Data Management Solutions organization.
We are looking for someone to help transform the way we do compliance at Amazon by deconstructing existing processes, analyzing them, optimizing, automating and rebuilding them, maximizing the use of technology.
Amazon's vision is to be Earth's most customer centric company.
Originally known as an online bookseller, Amazon has dramatically expanded its range over the years both in terms of the products and services it sells and how and where it sells them.
The growth of our international business (countries outside the USA) combined with increasingly complex tax legislation resulted in 2,000 plus indirect tax registrations in 75 countries making over 35,000 indirect tax-related filings each year.
Technology solutions are needed to help meet the challenge of indirect tax compliance and that is where the Indirect Tax Compliance Automation Team comes into play.
We design and build automated tools for the indirect tax compliance teams to use.
An experienced indirect tax professional is sought to help us address this field of work in the Latam and Asia Pacific regions.
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Key job responsibilities
The role will be responsible for driving the analyzing of compliance teams needs, designing of new compliance tools and processes, identifying and articulating the technology needs, and developing the tax technology solutions.
Whilst you do not need to be able to "build" using the technology, an understanding of indirect tax compliance is required and an appreciation of how automated solutions are built is needed.
You need to understand how technology can be used to improve compliance processes and eliminate inefficiency.
Ideally your experience will mean you will have one foot firmly planted in indirect tax compliance and the other in the tax technology solutions space.
You will need the ability to think-big and and have chance to input into the long term global strategy.
Have a strong bias for action and the ability to deliver results driving solutions over the line.
You will need to thrive in highly complex distributed system environments and strong communication skills in order to convey your vision of solutions.
The role requires exceptional people skills to work alongside members of the compliance teams and partner with other technology teams.
- Bachelor's degree or similar qualification or experience in Accounting, Tax, Business or Finance degree or related field;
- Significant experience of international VAT in either an advisory capacity and/or a compliance environment;
- Strong organizational and project management skills.