Amazon’s Canada Indirect Tax team is looking for a senior tax professional to join our Canada Indirect Tax Planning team.
The candidate will 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, and senior tax leadership.
The candidate must have significant expertise in Canadian indirect tax matters (GST / HST / PST), including providing advice 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.
Candidates must be comfortable operating independently and directly liaising with tax authorities, including those in senior positions, as well as with various business and partner teams within the company.
Working closely with the wider Canada Tax team, and other tax teams is also a key function of this role. The candidate will also be expected 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.
The candidate should also possess a base knowledge of direct tax issues and how those can impact an identified business solution, or audit request.
The candidate 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
- Management and coordination of Canada indirect tax planning and related enquiries for all Amazon business (except AWS)
- Ensuring new projects launch with Canada indirect tax requirements and processes implemented, minimizing risk and exposure to penalties
- Reporting on planning initiatives and launches to senior leaders;
- Identifying and tracking planning and policy trends, both in Canada and globally
- Analyzing and supporting legislative changes for Canada indirect tax that impact Amazon’s businesses
- 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 business
- Promoting indirect tax awareness and knowledge internally including liaising with key stakeholders on changes to systems, policies, and processes
- Assisting with contract negotiations and reviews
A day in the life
You are an expert in the field of Canadian indirect tax.
You help identify and define problems, opportunities and strategy by using your significant expertise and high judgement in decisions that have large financial, operational, or customer implications.
You are a person who can lead independently and help set the vision for the team.
You are able to innovate and effectively communicate with and influence senior leaders both inside and outside of tax.
You have the ability to manage significantly complex problems, decisions, and escalations. You proactively analyze and resolve collateral issues.
You look for alternatives and make recommendations on issues for which little or conflicting tax guidance exists.
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!
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :
Toronto, ON, CAN Vancouver, BC, CAN
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
- 5+ years of advisory and planning experience on complex Canadian indirect tax matters across GST / QST / BC PST / SK PST / MB RST.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with marketplace tax collection rules federally and across all provinces
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