Senior Program Manager, Global Tax Program Management Office

DESCRIPTION Amazon is seeking a Senior 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 Office (PMO) 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 - Collaborating with project owners and key stakeholders to define and refine project objectives and deliverables - 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 - Building workstream project plans and identifying workstream dependencies during the planning process; supporting the resource planning process - Responsible for creating and maintaining project SharePoint landing page used by cross functional core team - 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 - Identifying areas of risk to the project scope or timeline, and escalating to program leadership in a timely manner - Diving deep where needed to resolve blocking issues during project execution, testing, launch and cutover - Executing project closeout process and practices, ensuring all project artifacts are finalized and archived as appropriate - Leading cross functional teams through workstream retrospective to help drive improvements into the process; owning and driving process improvements - Supporting the development and delivery of tooling, templates, process improvements and trainings, to varied audiences within and external to the PMO 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 Job details - BRA, SP, Sao Paulo - Tax - Finance and Global Business Services