Tax Planning Manager, Canada Indirect Tax

Overview

Elevate Your Career in Canadian Indirect Tax Planning at Amazon

Are you a strategic indirect tax professional passionate about solving complex business challenges? Are you looking for a career that offers meaningful and interesting tax work within a team that celebrates technical excellence alongside practicality, strong judgment and good instincts? Join our Canada Indirect Tax team and help pioneer innovative and creative solutions to novel tax challenges.

Responsibilities

• Develop comprehensive tax planning strategies for new Amazon product launches and business features across multiple operational domains
• Collaborate cross-functionally with legal, public policy, accounting, and business partner teams to ensure tax-efficient and compliant business operations
• Analyze complex tax scenarios and design innovative solutions that support business objectives
• Research and draft tax opinions to support positions
• Manage engagements with outside tax counsel
• Identify opportunities for tax policy change

Day in the Life

Your day will be far from ordinary. Our innovative technologies change the way people find, discover and buy products, services, and entertainment. You'll collaborate with innovative teams across Amazon's diverse ecosystem, from digital services to logistics and media. You'll dive into intricate tax planning scenarios, crafting solutions that balance compliance with business growth, and leverage your expertise to drive strategic initiatives. As a trusted partner to our business, our work is intellectually challenging, exciting, and fast-paced.

About the Team

We are a collaborative and forward-thinking group of tax professionals dedicated to supporting Amazon's expansive business operations. We develop meaningful relationships with our business partners and other key stakeholders and help find novel, creative and innovative solutions to complex tax challenges. Our team thrives on intellectual curiosity, strategic thinking. We value both independent work and team collaboration, creating an environment where innovative thinking meets practical execution. We are flexible and adapt quickly to change.

Qualifications Basic Qualifications

• 4+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• Experience in taxation in a corporate environment, public accounting firm or major law firm

Preferred Qualifications

• You love to find creative, technically sound solutions to complex problems, and can easily pivot your focus to different types of work and relevant tax rules.
• You have high standards and value delivering high-quality work that requires little revision.
• You are self-motivated and need little direction to understand and complete tasks.
• You distill facts from documents and discussions and understand key flows and the big picture quickly, and can articulate issues and proposed solutions in a clear and logical way.
• You are organized, have excellent research and analysis skills, but know when to ask for help if you've hit a roadblock.
• You have 5+ years of experience in providing complex Canadian indirect tax planning advice across a range of different industries and common sense.

Company Information

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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Compensation and Benefits

The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

Location availability (example): CAN, BC, Vancouver - 89 000.00 CAD annually; CAN, ON, Toronto - 89 000.00 CAD annually

Posted: February 6, 2026 (Updated about 1 month ago)