Program Manager, Tax

Amazons Global Tax department provides tax controllership and single-threaded business support across key tax functions. Within Global Tax the Tax Finance team delivers financial and controllership services FP&A Procure-to-Pay (P2P) vendor management and cross-organizational programs.

We are looking for a Program Manager to join Tax Finance and own the end-to-end design and execution of programs that ensure our procurement vendor contracting and reporting mechanisms run accurately and at speed leveraging AI tools to scale.

The Program Manager will work across Tax Finance Legal Accounting and Tax Managers to drive the Procure-to-Pay lifecycle New Matter Requests Budget Adjustment Requests Work Orders and Tax Order Forms and to manage the SIM / Contract Central / DocuSign contracting workflow.

The ideal candidate is comfortable operating in ambiguity communicates crisply influences without authority across a broad stakeholder set and has a bias for eliminating unnecessary process while raising the bar on controllership.

Key job responsibilities
Own day-to-day execution of one or more Tax Finance program areas (Procure-to-Pay intake contract lifecycle management vendor management) delivering to defined SLAs.
Drive the P2P process end-to-end in partnership with Tax Managers Legal Global Procurement and tech teams ensuring it is streamlined compliant with internal policies and audit-ready.
Own contract stewardship across the Global Tax department including SIM / Contract Central / DocuSign workflows.
Own the weekly status report and other recurring Tax Finance controllership mechanisms producing clear narratives and socializing them with Tax leadership.
Build and maintain SOPs wikis FAQs and training materials; deliver training to Tax matter owners and Tax Finance stakeholders on prioritization intake and contracting.
Identify and drive continuous improvement simplify or eliminate excess process unblock delivery reduce cycle time and improve controllership signal including through the deployment of AI tooling.
Communicate program status risks and trade-offs clearly to Tax Finance leadership (up to Director / VP) in writing (narratives weekly reports PR/FAQs) and in meetings.
Partner with cross-functional stakeholders (Legal Global Procurement Tax Ops Accounting HR/Recruiting and Tax matter owners) to align priorities and drive timely decisions.


- 3 years of program or project management experience
- 3 years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
- Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams

- 3 years of driving end to end delivery and communicating results to senior leadership experience
- 3 years of driving process improvements experience
- Experience in stakeholder management dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
- Experience building processes project management and schedules
- Bachelors degree

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 82700.00 - 129800.00 USD annually