Amazon India | Senior Tax Analyst, Global WHT

Responsibilities

• This position will primarily support variety of business teams (Digital, Retail, Transport, AWS, Telecom, etc) on WHT tax matters and will provide tax operational lead including technical guidance and advice on procedural setup to ensure that Amazon businesses and Finance Operations are in compliance with tax identity collection, withholding determination, information reporting, and other WHT requirements.
• This role will include collaborating with other tax teams and identifying appropriate support needed from external consultants when necessary.
• As a Sr. Tax Analyst, you will also be required to handle end-to-end contacts, identify customer-impacting issues, and implement solutions and processes to increase customer satisfaction rate.
• The mission of Global Withholding team is to timely, accurately, and efficiently report taxes to tax authorities globally.
• Work on withholding, reporting and other transactional tax obligations Globally.
• Manage and assist with tax compliance and audits.
• Support special projects and new launches from the Initial Tax Requirement process (initial configuration into Amazon Financial systems, covering use cases, testing the functions) to the production phase with the Tax Operation team providing proper signoffs from a tax technical perspective
• Be the point of contact for all withholding tax related queries from global customers and businesses
• Foster good cross-functional relationships with internal business partners by serving as the Tax liaison for general inquiries, escalations, communication of project/process initiatives and plans of action

Requirements

• Should have ability to prioritize multiple tasks with teammates around the globe in a deadline-driven, dynamic environment, and will be self-motivated to build cross functional process improvements.
• 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

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.

• Industry: E-commerce, cloud computing (AWS), digital payments and logistics
• Headquarters: Seattle, Washington, USA (parent: Amazon.com, Inc.); India operations based in Bengaluru
• In India: Corporate offices in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Gurugram, Mumbai and Pune, with fulfilment and delivery centres across India