Amazon India
Amazon India | Tax Analyst, Foreign Reporting & Compliance, Withholding Tax
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Job Highlights
Responsibilities
- As a member of the Withholding Tax team, the Tax Analyst will support the global local tax teams on various projects and deliverables to serve our internal and external customers.
- You will collaborate with tax, accounting, and audit teams, leveraging your expertise to drive process improvements, enhancing controls and deliver scalable solutions to contribute to optimizing controllership and ensuring compliance as our business grows.
- Your day will involve engaging with various teams, acting as a subject matter expert, and utilizing technology to achieve efficient results in a fast paced, informal, and often ambiguous environment.
- Our team is dedicated to maintaining the highest standards of compliance and efficiency in tax compliance.
- By joining us, you will be part of a forward-thinking team that is committed to scaling our processes to meet the growing demands of our business.
- Collaborate with global teams to implement tax controllership initiatives, develop risk management strategy for key risk areas, gaps in existing processes and controls.
- Provide internal and external audit support.
- Monitor and track for ACS 450/FAS5 tax contingencies.
- Maintain, enhance, monitor and document controls.
- Lead process improvement initiatives — identify automation and simplification opportunities, author and maintain SOPs, and drive reduction in manual effort.
- Assist in supporting on withholding tax considerations for new countries, projects and business lines.
- Supporting withholding tax audits - internal and external by tax authorities and statutory auditors.
- Engage cross-functionally to leverage technology for efficient results.
- Own end-to-end identity collection, validation and query management for payees across assigned regions including collection, review, and maintenance of tax forms and associated documents.
- Staying updated on changes in tax laws and implementing necessary adjustments.
Qualifications
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications at an advanced level.
About the company
Amazon India
Amazon.com, Inc. was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 as an online bookshop and is today one of the world's largest companies, spanning online retail, cloud computing through Amazon Web Services (AWS), digital media, devices and advertising. It is headquartered in Seattle and listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Amazon launched its Indian marketplace, Amazon.in, in 2013, and its businesses in India now include the marketplace, Amazon Pay, Amazon Business, Prime Video and AWS, which runs two Indian cloud regions — Mumbai (2016) and Hyderabad (2022). Its Hyderabad campus, opened in 2019, was at the time Amazon's largest campus building anywhere in the world.
Beyond serving Indian customers, Amazon's India offices handle a significant share of the company's global finance work: finance operations (accounts payable, receivables and payments), controllership and accounting, worldwide direct and indirect tax reporting, financial planning and business finance for its retail, AWS and payments businesses, and audit, risk and compliance programmes. These roles suit CA, CMA, CPA, ACCA and MBA (Finance) profiles as well as B.Com and M.Com graduates.
