AmazonSr. Program Manager, Tax E-Compliance
Amazon is hiring a Sr. Program Manager, Tax E-Compliance in Seattle, United States. It pays $116k-$160k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.
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- On Level's scale, this role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
- The posting mentions program management, vat compliance and process improvement among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a senior role.
- Amazon has 21,000+ other open roles on Level.
AI in this role
Drives global tax e-compliance initiatives, process automation, and invoicing systems integration for Amazon Tax.
Key job responsibilities
Primary responsibilities:
- 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
A day in the life
Successful candidates will have broad experience in 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.
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 to gather necessary information, uncover opportunities within and across teams, and manage change when new processes are integrated.
About the team
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.
Basic qualifications
- 5+ years of program or project management experience
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
- Bachelor's degree
Preferred qualifications
- Experience working within a high-growth, technology company
- Experience working and communicating with multiple stakeholders, C-level executives and cross-functional teams
- 6+ years of experience in two out of three: Finance (particularly Tax and Accounting), Program Management, or IT
- Experience in tax compliance and reporting, external and internal audit, SOX, accounting month end close, controls and reconciliation process improvement, or financial systems integration
- Experience in process and tooling / template design, and / or facilitating trainings and workshops on such content
- Experience with Microsoft Project (or another project planning software), Excel and Word
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Seattle - 115,600.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually
How we rate this
Sr. Program Manager, Tax E-Compliance at Amazon rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
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- Tell me about a project where program management was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where vat compliance was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where process improvement was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where cross functional leadership was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where tax reporting was part of your work. What did you do?
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