Tax Planning Manager

About This Role

This role is for a strategic tax professional to elevate their career in Canadian tax planning at Amazon. The manager will be energized by complex business challenges and will be equally at home in direct and indirect tax, or strong in one with the curiosity and drive to learn the other. The position offers meaningful and genuinely interesting tax work within a team that prizes technical excellence alongside practicality, strong judgment, and good instincts.

Responsibilities

• Develop comprehensive direct and indirect tax planning strategies for new Amazon product launches and business features across multiple operational domains
• Research complex Canadian issues across the board — GST/HST, PST/QST, and direct tax, including inbound and outbound cross-border matters
• Lead and contribute to Amazon's Canada direct and indirect tax planning initiatives
• Draft tax opinions, technical memos, and documentation to support positions and ongoing reporting, compliance, and controversy analysis
• Collaborate cross-functionally with legal, public policy, accounting, and business partner teams to keep operations tax-efficient and compliant
• Manage engagements with outside tax counsel and advisors
• Track planning and policy trends in Canada and globally, analyze relevant legislative changes, and identify opportunities to advocate for policy change with governments and tax authorities

Requirements

• 4+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• Experience working in a large public accounting firm or multi-national corporate tax department

Nice to have:

• Love finding creative, technically sound solutions to complex problems, and pivot easily between different types of work and tax rules — direct one hour, indirect the next
• 5+ years advising on complex Canadian tax planning across a range of industries

About the Company

Amazon's Canada Tax Planning team helps pioneer creative solutions to novel tax problems that span the full spectrum of Canadian tax, from GST/HST to corporate income tax and cross-border structuring. The team supports Amazon's expansive Canadian operations across both direct and indirect tax, building meaningful relationships with business partners and other key stakeholders.