Amazon India | Tax Analyst II - Foreign Direct, Foreign Tax Reporting

Responsibilities

• The mission of the Foreign Tax Reporting and Compliance team is to comply with foreign local tax reporting requirements and manage the worldwide, tax-related filings of Amazon’s foreign entities.
• This position will be primarily focused on preparing and reviewing foreign countries corporate tax reporting (direct tax returns, tax accounting & tax assessments) as well as the international aspects of the US GAAP worldwide income tax reporting.
• Prepare and/or review quarterly advance tax computation for various entities and ensuring timely payment of Taxes.
• Prepare and/or review of annual corporate income tax returns for Amazon’s overseas entities.
• Prepare and/or review monthly/ quarterly tax computations to support Amazon’s worldwide US GAAP provision for APAC entities.
• Review of financial statements, reports and support closing of local country financial statements.
• Support & review local country transfer pricing compliances and ensure they are completed on time.
• Coordinate information requests with internal and external service providers to ensure accurate and timely closure of tax reporting deliverables.
• Identify process improvements which increase efficiency and scalability of data.

Requirements

• Able to extract, analyse, and review data and make appropriate recommendations.
• 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
• Excellent computer skills, specifically with managing large data sets within MS Excel.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently.
• Strong organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills.
• Self-starter; must have strong desire to help improve processes for scalability, efficiency, and accuracy.
• Knowledge and experience with accounting for income taxes under IFRS required.
• Knowledge of accounting principles, processes, and entries

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