Sr. Program Manager, Tax Reporting & Compliance

Amazon • Seattle, WA

1d • $115,600 - $160,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon is seeking an experienced Program Manager to join the Direct Tax Compliance and Reporting team. The Amazon tax department is a fast-paced, team-focused, dynamic environment. The Program Manager will manage projects that touch various teams and transform tax processes. The candidate will assist with project management of several projects focused on simplifying, standardizing, integrating, and automating processes owned by the US & Foreign Reporting and Compliance team, the US Outbound team, the Tax Provision team, and the Finance/Accounting/FP&A teams. The Program Manager must have broad project management experience in order to facilitate discussions and help the teams develop plans, organize action items, follow up, develop metrics and reporting mechanisms. The Program Manager needs a business background and some experience working across different groups and multiple stakeholders. This role will operate with independence and be expected to demonstrate an ability to provide ideas, collaborate and manage multiple projects at the same time. The work will be both tactical and strategic in nature and the role must be able to create clarity from ambiguous situations.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
• Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field
• Knowledge of general AI tools
• Experience designing, implementing, and scaling upskilling, apprenticeship, or workforce development programs across large-scale operations or corporate environments, including forecasting workforce needs and leveraging analytics to drive program decisions
• Knowledge of Excel at an advanced level
• Experience with accounting concepts and tax regulations, laws and standards

Responsibilities

• Own programs and wing to wing operational efforts. This includes unblocking teams, escalating when appropriate and ensuring all stakeholders are up to date on status.
• Develop methodologies and tools to manage multiple projects and provide metrics, reports and status updates to stakeholders.
• Manage project plans, action items, follow ups and completion of tasks for multiple projects.
• Collaborate with various members of the tax team to help develop project plans, tasks and overall project deliverables. Propose ideas on how to streamline the project planning efforts, automate processes and reporting.
• Participate in the documentation of processes focusing on identifying requirements, mitigating risk, finding opportunities to streamline and ensuring completeness.
• Prepare the documentation of project status and preparation of materials to facilitate presentations to leadership.

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior