Amazon India | Tax Analyst, Federal Compliance & Reporting, Tax Provision Technology

Responsibilities

• Amazon is seeking a Tax Analyst to join our Federal Tax Reporting and Compliance team with experience in process improvements and data analytics to help deliver support surrounding US Federal income tax filings and the US Federal elements of Amazon’s worldwide tax provision.
• This role will be part of a specialized team driving the delivery of solutions to standardize, optimize and transform tax processes that will scale as the business grows.
• You will help define the right models, tools and mechanisms necessary to address business opportunities, drive automation, improve controllership and earn trust across the tax organization.
• Amazon has a culture of being builders and you will get to use the latest technology and internal Amazon tools to help scale big and fast.
• The Federal Reporting and Compliance team manages Amazon's worldwide taxable income calculations and federal tax obligations.
• Perform hands-on data delivery, detailed data research and analysis of large-scale, complex financial data sets; investigate, troubleshoot and resolve issues related to data.
• Collaborate with customer teams to identify opportunities for improving efficiency and controllership in current processes to eliminate manual efforts within the US Federal Tax Return and worldwide tax provision.
• Drive process improvements and coordinate with the Tax Technology team to facilitate streamlining and automation.
• Develop tax models for various tax calculations and review tools through the creation of end-to-end scalable processes by leveraging technology.
• Preparation and review of tax adjustments, audit-ready workpapers and federal tax returns for US reporting.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of at least one data-focused technology tool, such as Python, SQL, Alteryx, Amazon QuickSight, or similar.
• Knowledge of strong understanding of tax compliance principles, regulations, and reporting requirements across jurisdictions.
• Experience with Corptax tax return and provision preparation or equivalent software.
• 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