Tax Manager, Canada Indirect Tax Planning

**DESCRIPTION**:
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 and 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?

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

**BASIC QUALIFICATIONS**:

- 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- Experience working in a large public accounting firm or multi-national corporate tax department
- Experience researching indirect tax issues including taxability of products and services.
- 5+ years in providing Canadian indirect tax advisory/planning guidance on complex issues and transactions across GST/HST/QST/PST.

**PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Experience relating complex tax risks to non-tax business stakeholders

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.