Senior Program Manager, Amazon

• Amazon Tax PMO is seeking a Sr. Program Manager with experience in process improvement, VAT compliance and reporting, requirements gathering, transaction/systems mapping, and cross-functional leadership
• Successful candidates will have broad experience in Finance (specifically Tax and/or Accounting), Program Management, and Technology
• This will help enable the Sr. PM to facilitate discussions, gather necessary information, uncover opportunities within and across teams, and manage change
• Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
• Experience in program or project management
• Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
• Experience working cross functionally with non-tech teams
• Experience defining and executing program requirements

Desirable

• The 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
• 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, develop, standardize, integrate, and automate processes for governance of e-invoicing schema compliance across Amazon’s high-complex invoicing ecosystem (both Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable)
• 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 program 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