Senior Tax Manager, Canada Indirect Tax Planning

Amazon; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Sr. Tax Manager to lead their Indirect Tax Planning team. This senior advisory role involves managing Canadian indirect tax strategies and collaborating with various stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Canadian indirect tax and the ability to communicate complex tax issues clearly.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Canadian Indirect Tax advisory experience.
• Experience in a corporate environment or public accounting.

Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate Canada indirect tax planning for Amazon businesses.
• Draft tax requirements and develop test plans for new business launches.
• Research complex Canadian indirect tax issues.

Skills

Tax Advisory

Analytical Skills

Communication

Education

10+ years of tax experience

Experience in taxation in a corporate environment

Job description

Amazon’s Canada Indirect Tax team is looking for a Sr. Tax Manager to help lead our Indirect Tax Planning team! This is a senior advisory role responsible for managing, coordinating, overseeing and setting 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?
This is a senior position requiring 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 helpful.

We work closely with our direct tax planning team. Having a knowledge of direct tax issues and how those can impact an identified business solution, or audit request is definitely helpful.

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?
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 be responsible for 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

- 10+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- Experience in taxation in a corporate environment, public accounting firm or major law firm
- 10+ years of Canadian Indirect Tax advisory experience, including GST/HST/QST/PST/RST

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience working effectively across cross-functional teams and partner well with people at all levels within an organization, including coaching of junior staff
- Experience with accounting concepts and tax regulations, laws and standards
- Experience relating complex tax risks to non-tax business stakeholders
- Providing Canadian Indirect Tax advice to large Canadian and non-Canadian retail businesses.

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The base salary for this position ranges from $110,700/year up to $184,900/year. Salary is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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