Amazon India
Amazon India | Senior Tax Analyst, Foreign Reporting & Compliance, Withholding Tax
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Job Highlights
Responsibilities
- Amazon is seeking a Senior Tax Analyst to join the Withholding Tax team in our India office.
- As a member of the Withholding Tax team, the Senior Tax Analyst is responsible for understanding & operationalizing withholding tax requirements to ensure compliance with tax identity collection, withholding determination and information reporting requirements.
- You will also be required to handle end-to-end queries from vendors/ sellers/business, identify customer-impacting issues, and implement solutions and processes to scale customer satisfaction.
- You will collaborate with tax, accounting, and audit teams, leveraging your expertise to drive process improvements, enhancing controls and deliver scalable solutions.
- A highly organized self-starter with excellent communication and time management skills will be successful on this team.
- Our team is dedicated to maintaining the highest standards of compliance and efficiency in tax compliance.
- 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.
- Track key metrics for identity coverage, documentation accuracy, and processing timeliness to surface compliance gaps and inform decisions.
- Engage cross-functionally to leverage technology for efficient results.
- Lead testing for country launches and system enhancements — design test scenarios, document defects, and validate fixes ahead of production deployment.
- Lead process improvement initiatives — identify automation and simplification opportunities, author and maintain SOPs, and drive reduction in manual effort.
- 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.
Qualifications
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications at an advanced level.
- Experience working in a large public accounting firm or multi-national corporate tax department.
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.
