Amazon India
Amazon India | Tax Governance Manager, Tax and Account Compliance
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Job Highlights
Responsibilities
- We are looking for a Tax Governance Risk Manager to join the TAC team and help build and run the governance function for Amazon's worldwide tax compliance programmes.
- You will run governance cadences, maintain control inventories, track risk indicators, produce audit-ready documentation, and hold teams accountable.
- You will also work closely with product and technology teams to ensure governance requirements are embedded in product design and that changes to tax products do not introduce compliance gaps.
- You will work within Amazon's Three Lines of Defence (3LoD) model, ensuring 1st Line controls are documented, tested, and effective while coordinating with 2nd and 3rd Line partners on assurance activities.
- Provide programmatic support and maintain effective tracking mechanisms for various governance mechanisms across various Tax programs (weekly, monthly, quarterly), ensuring they stay on schedule and produce the required outputs.
- Maintain the control inventory across worldwide tax programmes.
- Ensure controls are documented, have clear owners, and link to regulatory requirements.
- Track completion of Risk and Control Self-Assessments (RCSAs) and escalate when teams miss deadlines or fall below the required standard.
- Monitor governance actions and remediation plans to deadline. Chase overdue items.
- Contribute to integrating bad actor detection and prevention into the governance lifecycle.
- Work with product and technology teams to ensure governance requirements are reflected in product design, business requirement documents (BRDs), and implementation plans.
- Review product changes and new tax programme launches from a governance perspective, ensuring compliance checkpoints are embedded from the outset.
- Track governance-related product risks and open items, coordinating with programme managers to drive resolution.
- Control Monitoring and Risk Tracking.
- Review and challenge Monitoring Control Indicators (MCIs), identify adverse trends, and flag them for review.
- Support periodic control testing: prepare test plans, gather evidence, document results, follow up on remediation.
- Review and track issue register items to ensure timely closure and ensuring deviations are promptly escalated through established protocols.
- Maintain audit-ready documentation with complete, version-controlled evidence trails.
- Track key governance metrics: RCSA completion rates, control effectiveness, issue closure velocity, regulatory submission accuracy.
- Support audit preparation and response, coordinating with Internal Audit and external regulators as needed.
- Coordinate across Tax, Legal, Policy, Product, Technology, and Fraud Prevention teams to collect governance inputs and ensure deadlines are met.
- Act as the operational point of contact for governance queries from partner teams.
- Work across time zones with teams in the US, EU, Japan, and India.
- Reporting and Audit Readiness
- Produce governance reports, dashboards, and status updates for governance forums and senior leadership reviews.
Requirements
- Experience demonstrating strong analytical abilities and confidence in the use of data.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, SharePoint, and PowerPoint).
- Experience maintaining risk registers, control inventories, or RCSA processes.
- Experience producing governance reports and audit-ready documentation.
- Experience in tax, finance or a related analytical field, or experience supporting the implementation of controls or contributing to audits over financial reporting environments.
- Experience with financial services, payments or e-commerce.
- Experience with the Three Lines of Defence (3LoD) governance model.
- Experience working with product or technology teams on compliance requirements.
- Familiarity with fraud detection or bad actor prevention frameworks.
- Professional certifications (CIA, CISA, CAMS, or equivalent).
- Comfortable working across multiple time zones with distributed teams.
- Experience with control testing methodologies.
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.
