Amazon is seeking a European VAT manager with experience in European VAT to support the EMEA VAT advisory team. As part of a larger team, this position will involve tax research, giving VAT technical advice to business stakeholders, working on tax and process automation projects.

Key Duties and Responsibilities
The VAT manager will:
- provide VAT advice to various Amazon business stakeholders, including gleaning and consolidating European VAT advice/requirements, responding to small VAT queries;
- scan and research new tax laws and their impact on Amazon
- work with technology teams on tax related automation projects and other process improvements.


Skills
- A team player who is confident in communicating with others and able to work with minimal supervision.
- Partner well with people at all levels within an organization.
- The ability to work in a team with a “can-do” attitude.
- The ability to demonstrate ownership, initiate and implement change with a problem solving approach.
- Organized and methodical with strong attention to detail.
- Fluent written and verbal communications skills in English
- Experience with tax technology tools and/or generative AI is helpful but not a requirement


A day in the life
A day in the life
• Assist with the delivery of planning, real time coordination, and communication of business projects with tax dependencies.
• Identify process improvement opportunities and define strategy to address them using your expertise and judgement to support decisions with financial, operational, or customer implications.
• Collaborate with tax, business and tech partner teams. This includes drafting the appropriate level of documentation to support analyses performed, decisions made and conclusions reached.
• Effectively communicate with and influence partner teams.
• Support engagements with external advisors.