Sr. Tax Manager - WHT Controllership, Foreign Reporting and Compliance

Amazon.com Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon UK Services Ltd. seeks a Senior Tax Manager to lead the Global Withholding Tax (WHT) controllership. You will shape control design, drive testing frameworks, and partner with Accounting and Tax Planning to ensure accurate withholding tax compliance across markets.

In this role you will develop executive dashboards, mentor a distributed team, and advance scalable, tech-enabled assurance workflows. The position requires deep cross-border tax expertise and strong leadership in a

Qualifications

• Knowledge of tax compliance principles, regulations, and reporting
• Experience with cross-border withholding tax regimes and treaty networks
• Experience a corporate tax role in multinational or professional services
• Experience managing training programs or teams across multiple sites or regions
• Experience with SOX/internal controls testing and COSO framework

Responsibilities

• Lead withholding tax controllership experts across global regions
• Own design and execution of control/testing frameworks for intercompany and third-party withholding
• Lead global FAS-5 process and document accruals with Accounting
• Interpret testing outcomes and oversee remediation actions
• Develop executive-level reporting and dashboards on control health and status
• Drive scalable, technology-enabled controllership and AI-assisted workflows
• Monitor regulatory changes and update control frameworks

Skills

Global withholding tax

Team leadership

Control design

Testing frameworks

ASC 450 / FAS-5 know-how

Executive reporting

Data analytics

Multinational tax

Regulatory knowledge

AI-enabled assurance

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting, tax, economics, or related field

Job description

Sr. Tax Manager - WHT Controllership, Foreign Reporting and Compliance

Job ID: 10593330 | Amazon UK Services Ltd.

Amazon is seeking a Senior Tax Manager to lead the Controllership team within our Global Withholding Tax (WHT) organization. In this role you will bridge tax expertise, process innovation, and technology to solve complex challenges at scale, directly influencing how Amazon manages withholding tax compliance across markets worldwide.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of withholding tax controllership experts across global regions.
• Own the design and execution of control and assurance testing frameworks, including differentiated approaches for intercompany and third-party payee withholding tax streams.
• Lead the global FAS-5 (ASC 450) process for withholding taxes on external‑party payments, partnering with Accounting to document and assess accruals.
• Interpret testing outcomes, collaborate with Tax Planning and Compliance to agree findings, and oversee remediation actions through to closure.
• Develop executive-level reporting and dashboards providing visibility into control health, testing coverage, and remediation status.
• Drive the evolution toward scalable, technology‑enabled controllership, including automated testing and AI‑assisted assurance workflows.
• Monitor the controllership impact of regulatory and treaty changes, proactively updating control frameworks.

A day in the life

No two days look the same. You will split your time between leading assurance activities with your team, advising on controls for new market launches and system changes, presenting findings and improvement proposals to senior leadership, and collaborating with technology partners on automation initiatives. Throughout, you coach a globally distributed team and work across the boundaries of tax compliance, controls design, and technology delivery.

About the team

The Global Withholding Tax team is responsible for income tax withholding compliance and reporting for global intercompany and third-party payee transactions. The Controllership team provides independent oversight, assurance testing, and control governance that strengthen withholding tax compliance.

Basic Qualifications

• Knowledge of strong understanding of tax compliance principles, regulations, and reporting requirements across jurisdictions
• Experience analyzing and reviewing statutes, regulations, and case law and then extracting data to make appropriate recommendations
• Experience in taxation in a corporate environment, public accounting firm or major law firm
• Experience a direct tax role in a multinational and/or professional organization
• Experience a compliance focused tax role in a multinational and/or professional organization
• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting, tax, economics, or a related analytical field, or a Bachelor's degree or above and experience in tax, finance or a related analytical field
• Experience managing training programs or teams across multiple sites or regions
• Extensive experience in progressive withholding tax experience, ideally from a large multinational or top‑tier consulting/advisory firm (Big 4 or equivalent).
• Experience with treaty networks, cross‑border withholding tax regimes, and income characterization and sourcing rules.
• Familiarity with SOX/internal controls testing, COSO framework, or similar control methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within a multinational business and either legal or accountancy firm experience

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