Senior Business Analyst, Tax Data Management Solutions

Amazon is seeking a highly motivated Senior Analyst to join Audit Data Services and Solution team. In this role you will be driving the audit support requests coming our way by understanding the requirements, planning, scoping, execution and providing data solution to our business customers. This team sits within Amazon's Tax Data Management Solutions organization (TDMS). The TDMS team enables solutions that support the automation of our Tax team's processes. The team is seeking an exceptionally capable and motivated individual to help deliver the Tax Technology support within Audit team for our Indirect Tax function. This position opening is based in the United Kingdom.

Amazon's vision is to be Earth's most customer centric company. Originally known as an online bookseller, Amazon has dramatically expanded its range over the years both in terms of the products and services it sells and how and where it sells them. The growth of our international business (countries outside the USA) combined with increasingly complex tax legislation resulted in 2,000 plus indirect tax registrations in 75 countries making over 35,000 indirect tax-related filings each year.

Key job responsibilities

As Senior Business Analyst you are expected to support Indirect Tax Audits globally and work in support of Audit Readiness. As part of audit team responsibilities your responsibility would include

• Supporting indirect Tax team on Tax audit on daily basis

• Diving deep into the details to develop meaningful findings and provide required data

• Analyze and solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context

• Own end to end 'Audit request' case from gathering requirements to solutions ensuring deliverables within the deadline

• Learn and understand a broad range of Amazon's data resources and know when, how, and which to use

• Documenting processes, data flows etc

• Build partnership with Tax, Finance and Accounting customers

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• BS degree in Accounting, Business, Data Science, Economics, Finance, Mathematics, or a related field or equivalent experience

• 5+ years of experience as a business analyst, data analyst, statistical analysis, data engineering role within a technology environment

• 3+ years of experience within Tax/ Accounting /Finance

• Advanced proficiency in SQL, Excel as well as any data visualization tools like Tableau or similar BI tools

• Advanced ability to draw insights from data and clearly communicate them to the stakeholders and senior management as required

• Proficiency with Alteryx

• Strong Analytical skills - has ability to start from ambiguous problem statements, identify and access relevant data, make appropriate assumptions, perform insightful analysis and draw conclusion relevant to the business problem.

• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical problems in simple plain stories.

• Excellent writing skills- experience in writing business documents, process flow, building flow-chart

• Ability to present information professionally & concisely with supporting data.

• Ability to work effectively & independently in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Familiarity with API's, Javascript, python

• Experience in Managing people

• Knowledge of data management and modeling fundamentals and data storage principles

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