Tax Compliance Analyst Job in Amazon

DESCRIPTION

Amazon is seeking a Tax Compliance Analyst to join the Withholding Tax Compliance Management team. The ideal candidate needs to be customer focused, self-motivated, and professional. Tax Compliance Analyst is responsible for ensuring tax documentation is in order; understand the withholding tax requirements and ensuring timely reporting to the tax authorities. Additionally, able to answer tax-related questions, own the resolution of business customers issues, and when necessary, can exercise good judgement to escalate issues upward throughout the organization. The preferred candidate will have problem solving skills and customer service passion.
The candidate will learn quickly and build a solid understanding of Amazons businesses, systems, and processes; leveraging their understanding of the end to end withholding tax process, they will identify and implement process improvement and automation.

Responsibilities Include but are not limited to the following:
Foster strong cross-functional relationships with internal business partners by serving as the Tax liaison for general inquiries, communication of project/process initiatives and plans of action.
Ensure withholding, reporting and other transaction tax obligations, withholding reconciliation and filings for APAC/EMEA regions.
Reconcile expense ledger with tax payable, withholding preparation and reporting of taxes to Tax authorities, liaising with external consultants;
Prepare materials needed for tax provisions at year-end and tax audit.
Timely remittances to the tax authorities and accurate reporting of withholding taxes.
Effectively communicate with both internal and external teams and customers
Leverage end-to-end process knowledge, including systems and portals
Serve as the Tax compliance resource on global Tax projects, including collaboration with the core project team, coordination of tax requirements, process generation, etc.
Define key metrics and create metrics reports and set up reporting process
Collaborate with co-workers to increase productivity by eliminating duplication and coordinating information requirements. Drive process improvement initiatives to reduce manual efforts.
Effectively resolve and escalate issues, demonstrate excellent record of delivery.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelors degree in Accounting, Business, Finance, Business Process Management with minimum of 4 years experience in global finance operations
Working knowledge of the withholding reconciliation and filing for APAC and EMEA regions.
Exemplary relationship-building skills with both technical and non-technical audiences
Strong analytical skills with the ability to relate processes and associated technical aspects to business partners in straightforward fashion
Demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills
Experience in creating and tracking metrics and process SOPs
Flexible to work varied shifts

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

MBA Finance or equivalent degrees
ERP experience such as Oracle/SAP; Well-rounded knowledge of MS Office Suite
Proven track record in learning and applying new technologies
Professional demeanor, resourcefulness, flexibility, and self-motivation
Ability to demonstrate empathy for customers issues and problems