Amazon’s Canada Indirect Tax team is looking for a Tax Manager in our Indirect
Tax Planning team! In this role you will help manage, coordinate, oversee and
set the strategy for all Canadian indirect tax planning activities, reporting
directly to the Head of Canada Indirect Tax. The role offers many opportunities
for you to Think Big, be creative, and to solve complex and interesting
problems.
What kind of tax technical do I need?
To be successful in the role you need to have experience in Canadian indirect
tax (GST/HST/PST) advisory that includes providing technical and practical
guidance on complex Canadian indirect tax topics, understanding impacts of
relevant court decisions, and understanding user experience with respect to
Canadian indirect tax federally and across all four sales tax provinces. You
must demonstrate a proven ability to identify and manage tax risks and execute
on projects. Having experience in providing technical indirect tax advice for
large, national retail operations would be an asset.
What other skills do I need?
The breadth of our businesses requires the ability process, organize, and
understand complex variables and use cases, the interplay of the tax rules to
those variables and uses cases, and present that analysis and recommendations in
a clear and logical manner. In this role, you will need to gain a deep
understanding of Amazon’s various business models and end-to-end systems in
order to ensure effective and clear communication of requirements with business
partners, stakeholders senior tax leadership. You must be comfortable operating
independently and providing guidance and direction to non-tax business partners
and stakeholders.
What else will I be doing?
You will also have opportunities to support the wider Canada Indirect Tax team
with audit, controllership, tax planning and policy efforts. For example,
understanding and communicating the impacts of new tax laws or policies to
businesses and other stakeholders, understanding compliance, controllership, and
audit requirements to ensure comprehensive and clear requirements are provided
to business and partner teams. You will work closely with other members of the
global tax department to obtain cross-functional tax subject matter input, and
ensure coordination of cross-functional tax solutions and approaches.
Key job responsibilities
In this role you will help support the management and coordination of Canada
indirect tax planning and related enquiries for all Amazon businesses (except
AWS), including:
- Drafting and reviewing tax requirements related to business launches and
ensuring those requirements are implemented correctly
- Developing test plans and sign off on test transactions related to new
business and product launches
- Providing Canada indirect tax planning input to global projects
- Managing complex tax technical planning projects
- Identifying and tracking planning and policy trends, both in Canada and
globally
- Researching complex Canadian indirect tax issues
- Drafting tax technical memos and opinions
- Liaising with advisors and tax authorities on matters relating to Canadian
indirect tax planning and the Amazon businesses
- Developing and implementing internal processes to improve efficiency and
controllership
- Analyzing legislative changes for Canada indirect tax that impact Amazon’s
businesses
- Reporting on planning initiatives and launches to senior leaders
- Promoting indirect tax awareness and knowledge internally including liaising
with key stakeholders on changes to systems, policies and processes
- Assisting with career development of other team members
About the team
In addition to providing high quality tax technical advice on complex or
ambiguous areas, our team helps our partners see around corners, thinking
through long-term implications of decisions, and the tax user experience. We
also help our partner teams move quickly by outlining various options and
practical solutions for moving forward. Most importantly, we build lasting
relationships with our partners, gain a deep understanding of their businesses,
systems, and flows, and have a lot of fun while doing it!
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