Senior Program Manager, Amazon

• Successful candidates will have broad experience in Finance (specifically Tax and/or Accounting), Program Management, and Technology
• Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
• Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
• Experience in program or project management
• Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams
• Do you have proven experience in the implementation of E-Invoicing in an EMEA country ?

Desirable

• The Amazon Tax department is a fast-paced, team-focused, dynamic environment
• Amazon Tax E-Compliance Team is seeking a Sr. Program Manager with experience in process improvement, VAT compliance and reporting, requirements gathering, transaction/systems mapping, and cross-functional leadership
• Governments are expanding E-invoicing mandates in order to increase the visibility of business activity and reduce the under-reporting of sales/output VAT and the over-reporting of expenses/input VAT
• Compliance with E-invoicing requirements is essential for operational continuity
• Taxpayers who report right first time, and clearly demonstrate compliance in revenue authority review and audit, will spend less time in subsequent audit follow-up and have fewer financial and reputational issues
• Tax E-Compliance Team’s mission is to lead Amazon to comply with current and emerging E-invoicing requirements, in a customer-obsessed, rapidly scalable, automated way, such that we are always audit-ready, earning trust of our suppliers, customers, business partners, and tax authorities
• We do this via the right planning, project management, products, policy influencing and playbook
• Take the lead role with project owners, sponsors, and subject matter experts to align on project and workstream objectives
• Present and articulate complex concepts to cross-functional executive audiences
• Drive process improvements; enable streamlining to achieve operational efficiencies, benchmarking, and development of performance metrics
• Support processes to gather tax requirements, assess them for completeness, and translate them for technical teams, stakeholders, and sponsors who will address and implement those requirements
• Leverage technology and investigative skills to trace data through Amazon’s complex invoicing systems architecture
• Document end-to-end transaction and systems flows that explain the source of data, where it is stored, and how it gets into the hands of the end user
• Implement and document controls and processes to manage the transfer and sharing of data
• Identifying areas of risk to the project scope or timeline, and escalating to program leadership in a timely manner
• Dive deep where needed to resolve blocking issues during project planning, execution, testing, launch and cutover
• The Sr. PM will lead teams drawn from across all Amazon business lines, back office IT systems, Tax, Accounting, and Finance/Operations to deliver E-Compliance Initiatives for Global Tax
• The Sr. PM will plan, simplify, standardize, integrate, and automate processes for receiving invoices (inbound/AP) and producing customer/seller invoices (outbound) across Amazon’s high-complex invoicing ecosystem