Amazon
Global online marketplace and cloud services
Manager – VAT Risk & Assurance
More locations: Manchester, UK
This role may be hired in Luxembourg, London, or Manchester.
About the job
- Knowledge of value-added tax in the European Union and United Kingdom.
- Experience in tax advisory, excluding compliance.
- English-language communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Extensive experience in value-added tax advisory or assurance, ideally from a top-tier consulting or advisory firm or a large, highly regulated corporate environment.
- Strong technical knowledge of value-added tax legislation, with a track record of providing practical, business-focused advice to support operational and strategic decision-making.
- Exposure to assurance, control frameworks, or operational risk management, enabling effective review and validation of testing, evidence, and controls.
- Experience operating in multi-jurisdictional environments, large organisations, or commercial marketplaces with complex value-added tax obligations.
- Review and validate operational assurance activities to ensure that assurance work aligns with value-added tax requirements, regulatory expectations, and internal standards, providing independent validation of outcomes.
- Evaluate testing methodologies, evidence collection, and sampling approaches by assessing the robustness, appropriateness, and effectiveness of controls and assurance procedures and identifying gaps or inconsistencies.
- Identify gaps, risks, or weaknesses in operational compliance by analysing operational processes and transactional data and providing actionable recommendations to mitigate value-added tax exposure.
- Collaborate with value-added tax advisory teams to ensure outputs meet controllership expectations and translate technical guidance into practical operational application.
- Drive enhancements to value-added tax processes, assurance practices, and operational risk controls, promoting efficiency, scalability, and consistency across multi-jurisdictional operations.
- Provide evidence-based observations and guidance to the Senior Manager to support strategic oversight, operational risk prioritisation, and decision-making.
- Review standard operating procedures, controls, and operational outputs to challenge operational readiness and monitoring, ensuring consistency with value-added tax policy and governance expectations and highlighting issues for corrective action.
- Maintain awareness of operational gaps or recurring issues and flag systemic or high-risk matters to the Senior Manager for action.
- Experience in international indirect tax planning and strong understanding of or practical experience with tax laws in other countries.
- Professional tax, accounting, or legal qualification, such as Chartered Accountant, Associate Chartered Accountant, Chartered Tax Adviser, Chartered Institute of Taxation qualification, or similar.
- Extensive value-added tax advisory and risk management experience focused on identifying, managing, and mitigating value-added tax exposure within complex operational environments.
About the company
Amazon operates a global e-commerce platform with a large online marketplace that connects consumers to both direct sales and third-party sellers across many product categories. It earns money from product sales and marketplace fees, Amazon Prime subscriptions, and AWS cloud services, plus a large Amazon Associates affiliate network. The platform combines fast shipping, streaming, cloud computing, and digital services to reach customers across numerous countries. Its goal is to be the world’s most customer-centric company by offering convenient access to a wide range of products and services.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington
Founded
1994
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What believers are saying
- Prime Big Deal Days returns October 6-7, pulling holiday demand forward.
- North America revenue rose 16% to $116.2 billion in Q2 2026.
- Amazon raised pay to $20 and added banking benefits to reduce turnover.
What critics are saying
- AWS Bahrain damage proved regional resilience failed; customers fled to other regions.
- Amazon's $20 wage floor lifts fulfillment costs immediately across U.S. operations.
- Anthropic misuse headlines and war-linked infrastructure damage expose AWS to trust and security shocks.
What makes Amazon unique
- AWS remains the default cloud for regulated workloads, despite Bahrain outage damage.
- Prime converts retail scale into recurring membership demand across 35-plus categories.
- Amazon's logistics density still compresses delivery times faster than Walmart nationwide.
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