Senior System/Data Analyst, Global Tax Data

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 118,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a detail-oriented Tax Data Analyst to optimize tax data delivery by building simple, standard data models that drive evolution in our data management products. You will transform data to meet Tax and Accounting needs and reduce operation costs for compliance and controllership.

You will work with large datasets, defining requirements and translating business objectives into actionable analyses, while collaborating with Tax Compliance teams and upstream engineering.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of tax, finance or related analytical field experience.
• 3+ years of writing SQL queries and creating BI reports using Tableau, Power BI.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights.

Responsibilities

• Perform hands on detailed data research and analysis of a large financial data set; investigate, troubleshoot and resolve data quality issues.
• Work with customer teams to identify improvements in efficiency and controllership for their current data processes
• Teach Tax Compliance and Data teams how to utilize the designed reporting and functionality in their processes.
• Build and maintain relationships with our key technology providers, as well as other technical teams across Amazon.
• Explain financial/technical concepts and analysis implications clearly to a wide audience, and be able to translate business objectives into actionable analyses.
• Define and maintain metrics to quantify the value of data standardization
• Get things done - drive implementation of their ideas!

Skills

SQL

Data analysis

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder influence

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

Amazon's Global Tax Data team seeks a capable and motivated individual to optimize tax data delivery processes by developing simple standard data models to drive evolution in our data management products. Success in our initiatives will ultimately lower the operation cost to serve Tax Compliance and Controllership.

The right individual should have an ability to work with large datasets. They will also have solid business judgment that enables their development of business logic to transform data and meet the needs of Tax and Accounting.

Key job responsibilities

• Perform hands on detailed data research and analysis of a large financial data set; investigate, troubleshoot and resolve data quality issues.
• Work with customer teams to identify improvements in efficiency and controllership for their current data processes
• Teach Tax Compliance and Data teams how to utilize the designed reporting and functionality in their processes.
• Build and maintain relationships with our key technology providers, as well as other technical teams across Amazon.
• Explain financial/technical concepts and analysis implications clearly to a wide audience, and be able to translate business objectives into actionable analyses.
• Define and maintain metrics to quantify the value of data standardization
• Get things done - drive implementation of their ideas!

A day in the life

You start the morning checking in with international operations and technology teams, reviewing data quality issues and data simplification roadmaps. By mid-morning, you're deep in source analysis — tracing a tax-reportable attribute back through multiple systems to identify which service originally produces the data and documenting the field-level mapping for the team that will build the integration.

After lunch, you join a working session with an upstream engineering team to resolve a sourcing ambiguity you flagged last week. You document the outcome and update the controllership tracker.

Later in the day, you're translating your findings into business requirements for the technical team that builds our tax data platform. You're not writing code, but you need to understand the data well enough to define what "correct" looks like for a given field.

Your internal stakeholders span Tax Compliance teams who consume the data for filings, technology teams who build the pipelines, and upstream service owners who produce the source data. Your customers are the Tax and Accounting professionals who need to trust every number in a compliance report.

About the team

We operate in a fast growing Tax Data space, so we're looking for candidates who are eager and able to learn new content quickly, who are willing to go into unfamiliar territory, and who possess ironclad judgment and integrity around confidential information.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 3+ years of writing SQL queries and creating business intelligence reports using Tableau, Power BI experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA
• Experience making business recommendations and influencing stakeholders
• Experience in tax, finance or a related analytical field, or experience supporting the implementation of controls or contributing to audits over financial reporting environments
• Experience with data lineage or data governance frameworks

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

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 118,200.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually