Amazon India | Senior Tax Analyst, VAT Compliance

Responsibilities

• This position will be responsible (as part of a larger team) for the preparation and filing of various ITX returns and related submissions for India.
• This position may also assist with the provision of data to tax authorities and with other ITX compliance actions relating to Amazon or third-party sellers.
• You will need an understanding of financial systems and technical accounting awareness for this work.
• You will be expected to take ownership of your activities, identify process improvement opportunities for existing processes and controls and drive positive change across the organization.
• Prepare, analyse, review and submit India GST Returns and related filings.
• Handle with ITX registrations across various jurisdictions.
• Manage ITX compliance queries from Amazon businesses/ internal teams.
• Lead in identifying areas of improvement and implement solutions for ITX issues.
• Build internal controls to ensure seamless compliance processes.
• Review month-end ITX account reconciliations.
• Manage internal and external audit support, including data analysis.
• Provide ITX compliance support to colleagues throughout the business and, in particular, Accounting groups and contributing and driving preparation of Tax Requirement Documents for tech teams.
• Participate in cross-functional projects with a priority on automation and in-housing.
• Partner in business growth and on-boarding of new entities to ITX compliance processes.
• Work may also include some mainstream ITX compliance activities, supporting internal and external audits and liaising with colleagues in ITX Planning, Controversy and Controllership as well as the wider business.

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.

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