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Over 2 million Sellers in 10 countries list their products for sale on the Amazon Marketplace. Sellers are a critical part of Amazon's ecosystem to deliver on our vision of offering the Earth's largest selection and lowest prices. These Sellers offer hundreds of millions of unique products providing a broad and diverse inventory of products from books, electronics, and apparel to consumables and beyond. In our vision to build a global marketplace, we will enable Sellers to list, make their selection available to customers globally while optimizing their inventory placement across multiple countries.
Amazon is seeking a VAT Expert with experience in European VAT compliance and technology to assist the VAT Services on Amazon team supporting Sellers with their European VAT obligations. As part of a larger team, this position will support the VAT Services on Amazon program with (VAT) technical expertise cross all aspects of offering. This includes driving legislative change implementations, understanding the impact and interaction of various Amazon teams and systems as well as external partners. Further, the team will be at the heart of the internal VAT quality assurance program and implement continuous controls throughout the program.
The candidate should be comfortable working in a highly ambiguous environment. Ownership of work is extremely important, and candidates should have a proven record of working with projects to their completion. The ideal candidate is motivated, agile, with strong time management and project management skills. This opportunity requires excellent troubleshooting, problem-solving, and communication skills. At the core of the position is high attention to detail and delivering high quality results on time.
Key job responsibilities
As a VAT expert you will:
- Actively participating in projects throughout their lifecycle - from design through delivery
- Work with internal/external partners to collect and understand upcoming changes from a legislative/business standpoint, implementing these changes, ensuring end to end accuracy of the program
- Lead the implementation of VAT related control activities and design best in class quality assurance products
- Actively identify and address Seller and system issues through problem solving and analytics, identifying required technical solutions to bring value added opportunities to VAT service on Amazon offering
- Oversee other VAT related aspects of the business such as seller queries, audit support and process mapping
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Barcelona, B, ESP