Tax Analyst, Foreign Reporting Compliance - 3 P WHT

Amazon is seeking a Tax Analyst I to join the Withholding Tax Compliance Management team. The ideal candidate needs to be customer focused, self-motivated, and professional. The Tax Compliance Analyst is responsible for ensuring tax documentation is in order, understanding the withholding tax requirements, and ensuring timely reporting to the tax authorities. Additionally, the candidate should be able to answer tax-related questions, own the resolution of business customer issues, and when necessary, exercise good judgment to escalate issues upward throughout the organization. The preferred candidate will possess problem-solving skills and a passion for customer service.

The candidate will learn quickly and build a solid understanding of Amazon’s businesses, systems, and processes. Leveraging their understanding of the end-to-end withholding tax process, they will identify and implement process improvements and automation.

Key Job Responsibilities

Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

1. Foster strong cross-functional relationships with internal business partners by serving as the Tax liaison for general inquiries, communication of project/process initiatives, and plans of action.
2. Ensure withholding, reporting, and other transaction tax obligations, withholding reconciliation and filings for LATAM countries.
3. Manage the outsourced compliance preparation of LATAM WHT computations.
4. Reconcile expense ledger with tax payable, withholding preparation, and reporting of taxes to tax authorities, liaising with external consultants.
5. Collaborate with the product management and technology team to develop tech solutions to ensure customer delight.
6. Prepare materials needed for yearly tax filings and tax audit requirements.
7. Ensure timely remittances to the tax authorities and accurate reporting of withholding taxes.
8. Effectively communicate with both internal and external teams and customers.
9. Leverage end-to-end process knowledge, including systems and portals.
10. Serve as the Tax compliance resource on global Tax projects, including collaboration with the core project team, coordination of tax requirements, process generation, etc.
11. Define key metrics and create metrics reports and set up reporting processes.
12. Collaborate with co-workers to increase productivity by eliminating duplication and coordinating information requirements. Drive process improvement initiatives to reduce manual efforts.
13. Effectively resolve and escalate issues, demonstrating an excellent record of delivery.

About the Team

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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, Finance, or Business Process Management with 5 years of experience in WHT tax compliance activities.
2. Strong hands-on experience and knowledge of withholding for LATAM countries.
3. Exemplary relationship-building skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
4. Strong analytical and critical skills with the ability to relate processes and associated technical aspects to business partners in a straightforward fashion.
5. Demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
6. Experience in creating and tracking metrics and process SOPs.
7. Excellent drafting skills to communicate complex tax ideas & issues to business groups.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. MBA in Finance or equivalent degrees.
2. ERP experience such as Oracle/SAP; well-rounded knowledge of MS Office Suite.
3. Detail-oriented individual who takes ownership of projects.
4. Work effectively and collaboratively in a team environment.
5. Hardworking, quicker learner with a positive 'can do' attitude and solid professionalism.

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