Amazon is looking to hire for an exciting opportunity within our highly specialized VAT team. This is a brand new role for a Senior Manager to focus on evolving VAT rules and driving risk management strategy across the European region. This strategic Senior Manager role will play a pivotal role in current and future VAT strategy, projects and advisory work.

As the regulatory market shifts within VAT, Amazon is required to scale in response ensuring compliance and risk mitigation. This role will drive and shape a number of VAT regulatory and projects across the Amazon consumer business. Collaboration with tax, finance, public policy and business teams to shape Amazon's response to drive enhanced risk management strategy and best practice. The role will encompass a range of high profile projects and exposure to senior stakeholders.

The role will operate across the VAT Consumer team, which drives and shapes regulatory and commercial projects. A typical day will be spent connecting with the business on international VAT regulatory developments and business programs such as cross-border B2B supply chain and the associated management of associated VAT risks.

You will be required to develop a deep understanding of Amazon's business problem statements and learn how the VAT regulatory environment impacts them.



Key job responsibilities
- Developing a deep understanding of the VAT risk challenges created by existing VAT rules and new VAT regulatory developments as well as business programs and initiatives.
- Working on the development of strategic risk management programs for new VAT regulatory developments ensuring business remains compliant, distilling the implications of those risks for a range of internal stakeholders
- Creating a reusable roadmap of resources to ensure consistent application of Amazon's strategies and positions
- Provide independent review of strategic projects testing to find weaknesses in the VAT design/execution.
- Reporting to senior leadership on VAT risk management, business problem statements and our strategies to mitigate those.
- Working with external stakeholders, such as peers, tax technical industry groups and advisors.



About the team
This role will be part of the Amazon VAT Consumer/Advisory team consisting of 30+ members. We are a highly specialized and high impact team, working on the most material VAT regulatory issues and related business challenges.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

London, GBR