Do you want to help shape the future of tax planning? Are you interested in working with innovative businesses like Prime Video, Amazon MGM Studios, Amazon Music, Audible?

Amazon is looking for an experienced and result oriented Sr. Program Manager to join the Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios Tax Planning Team. As a Sr. Program Manager, you will help develop long-term strategies for tax planning across multiple Amazon digital businesses, while ensuring the highest levels of tax controllership.

This position is focused on standardizing programmatic processes that drive alignment across organizations with varying priorities and ensuring resources are properly allocated to the highest priority in order to maximize impact. Successful candidates will be well-versed in supporting diverse stakeholder groups at each phase of the program management lifecycle, partnering with Tax Planners, Product Managers, and business partners to deeply understand the upstream and downstream impacts of each release, and ensuring those impacts are well-managed. They will have extensive experience in escalation management, project status reporting, and leadership communication.

Successful candidates will demonstrate strong customer obsession and will thrive in ambiguous situations and a fast-paced work environment. They will be a self-starter, a quick learner, a proven results driver, and they will have the ability to efficiently manage various high-priority and visible projects. Most importantly, this person will be at their best in a team that values agility, collaboration, inclusion, innovation, and growth; all in a casual environment where we value fun and personal connection!


Key job responsibilities
Successful candidates will have broad experience in Program Management, Finance (specifically Tax and/or Accounting), and Technology. This will help enable the Sr. PM to facilitate discussions, gather necessary information, uncover opportunities within and across teams, and manage change.

A day in the life
• Drive process improvements; document best practices and hold stakeholders accountable to timelines and deliverables; enable streamlining to achieve operational efficiencies, benchmarking, and development of performance metrics.
• Define processes to gather tax requirements, assess for completeness, and translate for stakeholders who will implement those requirements.
• Present complex concepts to cross-functional executive audiences.
• Leverage technology and investigative mechanisms to automate re-occurring and standardized project practices to eliminate manual work.
• Identifying areas of risk to the program scope or timeline, and escalating to leadership in a timely manner.
• Dive deep where needed to resolve blocking issues.