Senior Manager, VAT, Digital and Devices, Tax in London

Amazon is seeking an Indirect Tax Senior Manager to join the EMEA Digital and Devices Tax team in London, supporting the launch and growth of Amazon Leo's consumer business across Europe. Amazon Leo is Amazon's low earth orbit satellite network, with a mission to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities beyond the reach of existing networks. As Leo launches its consumer offering across EMEA, the successful candidate will lead the indirect tax position for the B2C business, working closely with Business, Engineering, Finance, Legal and external advisors to shape the tax treatment of Leo’s new consumer service from the outset.

The role will offer exposure to a broad range of jurisdictions and technical topics, including telecommunications services, bundled offerings of connectivity and hardware, design of consumer billing systems, place of supply for cross-border flows, and the interaction between indirect tax, direct tax, transfer pricing and accounting. There will also be scope for engagement with local tax authorities through enquiries and audits as they arise.

Key job responsibilities

• Leading the indirect tax position for the Leo consumer launch across EMEA, from strategy through go-live and into steady-state operation.
• Advising on new features and product changes, including bundling of connectivity with hardware and other services.
• Partnering with Leo business teams early in the product development cycle to ensure tax considerations are reflected in business requirements documents.
• Working with Engineering to translate tax requirements into system logic, resolving open points and driving the testing approach to ensure a compliant launch.
• Advising on customer-facing outputs, including invoicing, billing system design, pricing displays and customer communications.
• Managing external advisors: setting the scope of advice, independently evaluating the output and reaching a sound position.
• Handling engagement with tax authorities across EMEA, including audits, enquiries and informal engagement, in coordination with compliance colleagues.
• Providing technical direction to more junior colleagues supporting the business line.

The role is primarily advisory, working closely with compliance colleagues on registrations, returns, audits and process improvements.

A day in the life

The role typically involves moving between three types of work: Advisory work with Product and Engineering on features under development, ensuring that tax treatment is understood, agreed and implemented before launch; ongoing support for the live business, including advisor queries, positions to be documented, and questions raised by Finance or Legal; and ad-hoc work, including engagement with tax authorities, review of legislative changes across EMEA, and support for wider planning work across the digital services and consumer devices portfolio where relevant.

About the team

The team supports Amazon's digital services and consumer devices businesses across EMEA. The team advises a portfolio of businesses covering streaming (Prime Video, Amazon MGM Studios, Amazon Music), digital content (Kindle, Audible), connected devices (Alexa, Ring) and now satellite broadband, and works directly with business teams and cross-functional stakeholders including accounting, legal, finance and tax. The team's focus is on providing clear, commercial and robust tax positions that allow the business to move forward with confidence, and on engaging early in the product development cycle to ensure tax outcomes are delivered at launch.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Professional tax, accounting or legal qualification (e.g., Chartered Accountant (CA), Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA), Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA), Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) or similar).
• Knowledge of VAT in EU/UK.
• Strong understanding of tax compliance principles, regulations, and reporting requirements across jurisdictions.
• Experience in taxation in a corporate environment, public accounting firm or major law firm.
• Experience managing other employees and leading international tax team through hiring and development.
• Experience liaising with tax authorities including responding to audits and information requests.
• Experience analyzing and reviewing statutes, regulations, and case law and then extracting data to make appropriate recommendations.
• Experience in tax advisory (excluding compliance).
• Experience in tax with an EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) focus.
• Experience in an indirect tax role in a multinational and/or professional organization.
• Experience in a direct tax role in a multinational and/or professional organization.
• Experience in a corporate tax advisory role in a multinational and/or professional organization.
• Experience in a transfer pricing advisory role in a multinational and/or professional organization.
• Experience in international indirect tax planning and strong understanding of or practical experience with tax laws in other countries.
• Advisory experience in a large accounting/consultancy practice, law firm, tax authority or business in-house.
• Experience in a compliance focused tax role in a multinational and/or professional organization.
• Experience with tax authorities with exposure to multinational taxpayers / cross-border transactions.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience working effectively across cross-functional teams and partner well with people at all levels within an organization, including coaching of junior staff.
• Experience with accounting concepts and tax regulations, laws and standards.
• Experience with tax modeling in Excel-based models or other similar programs.

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