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Amazon Tax PMO is seeking a Sr. Program Manager with experience in process
improvement, VAT compliance and reporting, requirements gathering,
transactionsystems mapping, and cross-functional leadership.
Governments are expanding E-invoicing mandates in order to increase the
visibility of business activity and reduce the under-reporting of salesoutput
VAT and the over-reporting of expensesinput VAT. Compliance with E-invoicing
requirements is essential for operational continuity. Taxpayers who report
right first time, and clearly demonstrate compliance in revenue authority
review and audit, will spend less time in subsequent audit follow-up and have
fewer financial and reputational issues. Tax E-Compliance Team’s mission is to
lead Amazon to comply with current and emerging E-invoicing requirements, in a
customer-obsessed, rapidly scalable, automated way, such that we are always
audit-ready, earning trust of our suppliers, customers, business partners, and
tax authorities. We do this via the right planning, project management,
products, policy influencing and playbook.
This role has scope to be based in London, Bratislava, and Barcelona.
Key job responsibilities
Successful candidates will have broad experience in Finance (specifically Tax
andor Accounting), Program Management, and Technology.
This will help enable the Sr. PM to facilitate discussions to gather necessary
information, uncover opportunities within and across teams, and manage change
when new processes are integrated.
Primary responsibilities:
• Take the lead role with project owners, sponsors, and subject matter experts
to align on project and workstream objectives
• Present and articulate complex concepts to cross-functional executive
audiences
• Drive process improvements; enable streamlining to achieve operational
efficiencies, benchmarking, and development of performance metrics
• Support processes to gather tax requirements, assess them for completeness,
and translate them for technical teams, stakeholders, and sponsors who will
address and implement those requirements
• Leverage technology and investigative skills to trace data through Amazon’s
complex invoicing systems architecture
• Document end-to-end transaction and systems flows that explain the source of
data, where it is stored, and how it gets into the hands of the end user
• Implement and document controls and processes to manage the transfer and
sharing of data
• Identifying areas of risk to the project scope or timeline, and escalating
to program leadership in a timely manner
• Dive deep where needed to resolve blocking issues during project planning,
execution, testing, launch and cutover
A day in the life
The Sr. PM will lead teams drawn from across all Amazon business lines, back
office IT systems, Tax, Accounting, and FinanceOperations to deliver
E-Compliance Initiatives for global tax. The Sr. PM will plan, simplify,
standardize, integrate, and automate processes for receiving invoices
(inboundAP) and producing customerseller invoices (outbound) across Amazon’s
high-complex invoicing ecosystem.
About the team
Governments are expanding e-invoicing mandates in order to increase the
visibility of business activity and reduce the under-reporting of salesoutput
VAT and the over-reporting of expensesinput VAT, a secondary objective in
some cases is to encourage business process digitizationautomation.
Compliance with E-invoicing requirements is essential for operational
continuity. Taxpayers who report right first time, and clearly demonstrate
compliance in revenue authority review and audit, will spend less time in
subsequent audit follow-up and have fewer financial and reputational issues.
Tax E-Invoicing Compliance Team’s mission is to lead Amazon to comply with
current and emerging E-invoicing requirements, in a customer-obsessed, rapidly
scalable, automated way, such that we are always audit-ready, earning trust of
our suppliers, customers, business partners, and tax authorities. We do this
via the right planning, project management, development of solutions product
capabilities, policy influencing and playbook.
### BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to
determine improvements
- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating
results to senior leadership
- Experience in program or project management
- Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams
- Do you have proven experience in the implementation of E-Invoicing in an
EMEA country ?
### PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience managing accountingfinance process improvement andor
technology projects with aggressive schedules
- Experience leading process improvements
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
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