Senior Program Manager, Global Tax Services
Job seekers are invited to apply for a Senior Program Manager position within Amazon's Tax team in the Finance organization.
This is an exciting and challenging role that will give the right person the opportunity to work with a company and team making significant contributions to the global market.
Amazon is facing a period of unprecedented tax reform, which will have a significant impact on all business units competing in the global market.
We welcome applicants from London, Barcelona, and Luxembourg.
The program management team leads the charge and partners with teams across Amazon to plan, coordinate, and implement mission-critical projects resulting from operating a global business in a time of unprecedented change.
Key Job Responsibilities:
1. Collaborating with project owners and key stakeholders to define and refine project objectives and deliverables.
2. Obtaining and driving to clarity workstream requirements coming from one or more impacted functions and demonstrating a solid working knowledge of requirements to project stakeholders and sponsors.
3. Building workstream project plans and identifying workstream dependencies during the planning process; supporting the resource planning process.
4. Responsible for creating and maintaining project SharePoint landing page used by cross-functional core team.
5. Liaising with cross-functional workstream participants consisting of Amazon Businesses, Tax, Accounting, Treasury, HR, Legal, Finance Operations, and technical teams to provide a comprehensive status update to the program lead related to the assigned workstream.
6. Identifying areas of risk to the project scope or timeline, and escalating to program leadership in a timely manner.
7. Diving deep where needed to resolve blocking issues during project execution, testing, launch, and cutover.
8. Executing project closeout process and practices, ensuring all project artifacts are finalized and archived as appropriate.
9. Leading cross-functional teams through workstream retrospective to help drive improvements into the process; owning and driving process improvements.
10. Supporting the development and delivery of tooling, templates, process improvements, and trainings, to varied audiences within and external to the PM team.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
* Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements.
* Experience owning program strategy, end-to-end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership.
* Experience in program or project management.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
* Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design, or related field.
* Experience leading process improvements.
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