TPM, Direct Tax Technology

Job Description

Amazon s tax team seeks a capable and motivated individual to be a Technical Program Manager on the Direct Tax Technology team, based in Seattle. The role is responsible for driving initiatives that ensure Amazon s Direct Tax Reporting and Compliance organization (R&C) is supported in their mission. The impact of this work is to create a technology-empowered Tax department that continues to meet the unique global challenges of Amazon.This role requires working closely with customers, product team, and development teams to define strategy and requirements, and lead development design through delivery and subsequent operation. This position requires regular communication with executive management on status, risks and product strategy. Excellent listening, writing skills and strong technical competency are essential. The ideal candidate should focus clearly on both delivery and customers. You should have experience managing multiple complete product development cycles, possesses superior analytical abilities and expert product judgment.Primary Responsibilities: Be a guardian of world-class customer experience for your deliverables: continually raise the bar on functionality, flow, consistency, usability, and simplicity. Mentoring and developing best practices within your team. Be the interface between the product owners and the development team, driving an agile SDLC, thoroughly understanding the product, helping define user stories, and driving the evaluation of appropriate technical solutions to meet the business requirements. Own engagement with the partners, work to decompose requirements into technical execution plans with multiple development teams, track progress towards goals, and report status to product, business development, and technical leadership. Help make the right feature trade-offs to deliver without compromising customer experience and business relevance. Resource planning and measurement of benefits, opportunities, and risks to program sponsors. Identifying areas of risk to the project scope or timeline, and escalating to program leadership in a timely manner. Engage with many other teams in the company, evangelizing the team and your project, building relationships and helping identify existing components and technologies that can be leveraged to deliver on our goals. Represent the technical team to senior leadership within the tax organization., Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules 7+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams 5+ years of technical program management experience 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design Programming experience 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems. Experience in Finance (particularly Tax and Accounting) Experience in any of the following disciplines: tax compliance and reporting, external and internal audit, SOX, accounting month end close, controls and reconciliation process improvement, or financial systems integration. Experience in process and tooling template design and/or facilitating trainings and workshops on such content. Experience leading complex projects involving multiple global teams Must be able to think and act both strategically and tactically Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial, as well as ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, problem-solve, scope technical requirements and prioritize Sound business judgment, proven ability to influence others, and strong analytical thinking skills are critical to success in this position Comfort interacting with a broad set of business stakeholders and leading meetings both over the phone and in person Qualified candidates have extensive experience defining programs and implementing them across a team focused on delivering projects that meet rapidly evolving business needs Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders The ideal candidate is creative with superior analytical abilities across business and technology A strong track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional projects. Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences. Experience building complex software systems successfully delivered to customers. Proven experience in innovative business practices that have been game changing for business evolution.

Keyskills :
tax complianceuser storiesfinancial systemsresource planninglead developmentleading meetingstax reportingwriting skillsinfluence othersdirect taxinternal auditthinking skillsdesign patternsproject delivery