Amazon India
Amazon India | Tax Compliance Program Manager, Tax and Account Compliance
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Job Highlights
Responsibilities
- We are seeking a Tax Compliance Program Manager to support the First Line of Defense (1LoD) for EU/UK tax compliance across Amazon’s Marketplace business.
- In this role, you will execute against defined risk workstreams, support governance processes, and deliver control activities arising from EU and UK tax regulations.
- You will support the identification, assessment, and mitigation of tax compliance risks across Amazon’s Global Selling ecosystem.
- You will monitor regulatory developments and assess their operational implications, contributing analysis that informs programme-level decisions.
- You will ensure compliance activities within your workstreams are proportionate, risk-calibrated, and delivered on time and to the expected quality bar.
- Own defined workstreams within EU and UK tax compliance programmes, delivering risk assessments and control activities on time and to quality standards.
- Execute risk assessments using established methodologies, documenting findings clearly and escalating issues that exceed defined thresholds.
- Analyze EU/UK tax compliance regulations (e.g., VAT, DAC7, JSL, Deemed Reseller) and their implications for Amazon sellers, translating requirements into actionable deliverables.
- Support the development and maintenance of risk models and detection mechanisms to identify non-compliant or fraudulent seller behaviour related to tax obligations.
- Collaborate with legal, policy, finance, tax, tech, and product teams to execute programme plans and deliver operational controls for new and existing programmes.
- Track key risk indicators (KRIs) and programme metrics, producing status reports and flagging deviations to programme leadership.
- Prepare risk assessments, programme updates, and supporting materials for senior leadership reviews.
- Maintain audit-ready documentation and contribute to continuous improvement of risk and programme processes.
- You will partner closely with a Tax Governance manager in the UK and collaborate heavily with Risk teams based in India and the EU to ensure Amazon’s compliance controls are in the best possible working order.
Qualifications
- Working within established risk frameworks and under the guidance of senior programme leaders, you will contribute to ensuring the business operates within clearly defined risk appetite and compliance standards.
- Working cross-functionally with Legal, Policy, Product, Tax, and Data Science partners, you will execute against programme plans, support the resolution of systemic issues, and contribute to risk-based control frameworks.
- Experience in compliance program management, legal, governance, audit, risk/loss prevention, or equivalent.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent certification.
- Experience using lean process improvement, six sigma methodologies, or related performance metrics/process improvements to increase efficiency within processes, forecasting, planning, optimization, or logistics.
- Knowledge of knowledge of VAT in EU/UK.
- Experience in tax, regulatory compliance, or financial services risk management.
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.
