Principal Program Manager - Finance, Tax PMO
DESCRIPTION
Amazon is seeking a Principal Program Manager to join the Tax team within the Finance organization. This is an exciting and challenging role, and will give the right person a chance to be part of a company and a team making history. Large multi-nationals are facing a period of unprecedented tax reform. This reform will have a significant impact to all business units competing in the global market. Our program management team leads the change 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.
We are looking for a Principal PM to join this amazing team. Successful candidates will have deep experience across three disciplines - Finance (specifically Tax and/or Accounting), Program Management, and Technology - and is well versed in all three in order to bridge across our diverse group of stakeholders. The candidate needs to be able to easily understand the business lines they engage, supporting information technologies, and finance/accounting/tax disciplines, and the impacts of each on the project.
The candidate also needs to be able to lead communications in these areas with current process owners, project stakeholders, and executive level sponsors.
Projects in our portfolio range from urgent compliance needs to long-term multi-year deliveries requiring work across multiple functional teams and modification to multiple distributed systems. As such, the candidate will often be required to dive deep to remove roadblocks and carefully manage scope to deliver results while still earning trust across many functions and stakeholders with executive level visibility and sponsorship.
Key job responsibilities
Lead large Tax initiatives through project initiation, planning, execution, and close-out
o Creating and maintaining project materials used by a cross-functional core team.
o Building workstream project plans and identifying workstream dependencies during the planning process; supporting the resource planning process.
o Executing project closeout process and practices, ensuring all project artifacts are finalized and archived as appropriate.
o Taking the lead role with stakeholders to define, align on, and refine a cross functional program objectives, deliverables, and resources
o Obtaining and driving clarity into requirements coming from multiple impacted functions and demonstrating a solid working knowledge of requirements to project stakeholders and sponsors.
o Identifying areas of risk to the project scope or timeline, and escalating to program leadership in a timely manner.
o Diving deep where needed to resolve blocking issues during project execution, testing, launch and cutover.
o Leading cross functional teams through workstream retrospectives to help drive improvements into team processes; owning and driving process improvements.
o Communicating the overall cross functional program roadmap and periodic status updates to overall market executive stakeholder body including Amazon Businesses, Tax, Accounting, Treasury, HR, Legal, Finance Operations and related technical teams
o Developing and implementing enterprise wide program management tools and standards to support program management core competencies within the team and within broader Finance.
o Developing program/team mission, vision, and strategy where needed.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree
- 7+ years of program or project management experience
- 7+ years of delivering cross functional projects experience
- 7+ years of managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership experience
- 7+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
- Experience working with, presenting to and influencing senior executives up to VP level
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
- Experience managing accounting technology projects with aggressive schedules
- Experience in many of the following disciplines is desired: Brazil Tax and E-Invoicing Legislation. Tax compliance and reporting, external and internal audit, SOX, accounting month end close, controls and reconciliation process improvement, or financial systems integration.