Amazon India | Tax Manager , Indirect Tax Planning

Responsibilities

• This position will be responsible for providing will be responsible for overseeing indirect tax matters related to planning opportunities, strategies, operations and policies across India and ANZSEA regions.
• The ideal candidate will be able to work with a high level of collegiality.
• This position interacts with the company’s U.S. and local business and support units.
• The candidate should be able to work well with cross-functional teams.
• The candidate must be able to communicate complex indirect tax concepts in ways that are meaningful and useful to non-tax professionals.
• Analyzing business transactions and initiatives as it relates to marketplace and seller services initiatives, partnering with various teams and functioning as an in-house tax advisor.
• Researching GST and other indirect tax issues - working with outside advisers as necessary - as part of a global tax team.
• Developing and evaluating GST and other indirect tax planning opportunities and strategies.
• Maintaining and communicating knowledge of past, present and potential future Indian indirect tax laws, regulations, rulings, procedures and court decisions.
• Monitoring of applicability of various state specific regulatory requirements.
• Assisting with managing relationships with outside tax consultants and regulatory authorities on an ongoing basis.
• Work with compliance and tech teams ensure adequate information is being recorded in the systems as may be required for the purpose of Tax compliance, audit and litigation.

Qualifications

• Experience an indirect tax role in a multinational and/or professional organization.
• Experience researching indirect tax issues including taxability of products and services.
• Understanding of accounting concepts preferred.
• Able to extract, analyze, and review data and make appropriate recommendations.
• Excellent Excel and general computer skills.
• Ability to understand and work with ERP systems.
• Analytical, problem solver and comfortable in working with technology teams.

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