Senior Manager of Indirect Tax Controllership, Amazon
ITX Controllership
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in indirect tax (VAT, GST), with a public accounting firm, major law firm, or in industry
- Strong analytical skills, ability to deep dive into complex processes, ask questions, and present conclusions in writing (narrative document format)
- A strong bias for action and the ability to deliver results
- Able to work to tight deadlines, and under pressure
- Strong organizational and project management skills
- The ability to thrive in highly complex distributed system environments and strong communication skills to be able to gather relevant information and convey your vision of solutions
- The role requires exceptional people skills to actively work alongside members of the controllership team and partner with other tax, business, finance and technology teams
Desirable
- Preferred CIMA, ACCA, ACA, AAT or similar credentials preferred
- Experience of indirect tax compliance or indirect tax inspector in European jurisdictions advantageous
- Second language (e.g. German, French or Spanish) advantageous
- Significant experience with tax controllership in either an advisory capacity and/or a controllership environment
- A confident MS Excel user
- Experience working successfully with globally diverse teams
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, informal, and often ambiguous environment
- Ability to successfully work on multiple complex projects simultaneously
- Takes ownership and responsibility for their work under minimal supervision
- Organized, analytical, and methodical with strong attention to detail
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively on milestone-driven projects
- A strong desire to exceed expectations
What the job involves
- Amazon seeks a Senior Manager to join our International Indirect Tax (ITX) controllership team to help transform the way we manage tax controllership at Amazon by deconstructing existing processes, analyzing them, identifying indirect tax risk and process gaps, defining appropriate governance and controls to manage the risk, and maximizing the use of technology
- The role will involve also participate in cross-functional business projects and will therefore require project management skills, an understanding of financial systems, and technical accounting awareness
- Working with the ITX controllership team to implement strategies to improve controls and reduce indirect tax risk to Amazon
- Working with internal business partners to define, implement, test and continuously improve the governance and control framework that effectively mitigates the indirect tax risk for Amazon
- Performing key systems and process assurance reviews to identify gaps and identify associated indirect tax risk. Subsequently, working with systems and process owners to design actions to close identified gaps, and define scope of governance and controls to effectively manage future risk
- Actively working as part of teams supporting major cross-functional project launches end-to-end, from scoping through testing and launch
- Providing internal and external audit support
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Company benefits
- Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
- Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
- Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
- Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
- Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
- Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
Company values
- Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
- Passion for invention
- Commitment to operational excellence
- Long-term thinking
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
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Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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