Bachelor's Degree
- 7+ years of experience in program or project management
- 7+ years of experience delivering cross functional projects
- 7+ years of experience managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior management
- 7+ years of experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams
Job summary
Amazon is seeking a Principal 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 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
- Managing large initiatives through project initiation, planning, execution, and close-out
- Creating and maintaining project materials used by a cross-functional core team.
- Building workstream project plans and identifying workstream dependencies during the planning process; supporting the resource planning process.
- Executing project closeout process and practices, ensuring all project artifacts are finalized and archived as appropriate.
- Taking the lead role with stakeholders to define, align on, and refine program objectives, deliverables, and resources
- Obtaining and driving clarity into requirements coming from one or more impacted functions and demonstrating a solid working knowledge of requirements to project stakeholders and sponsors.
- 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.
- Leading cross functional teams through workstream retrospectives to help drive improvements into team processes; owning and driving process improvements.
- Communicating the overall program roadmap and periodic status updates to executive stakeholder body including Amazon Businesses, Tax, Accounting, Treasury, HR, Legal, Finance Operations and related technical teams
- Developing and implementing enterprise wide program management tools and standards to support program management core competencies within the team and within broader Finance.
- Developing program/team mission, vision, and strategy where needed.
- Experience in many of the following disciplines is desired: tax compliance and reporting, external and internal audit, SOX, accounting month end close, controls and reconciliation process improvement, or financial systems integration.
- Experience in process and tooling / template design, and / or facilitating trainings and workshops on such content.
- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
- Experience with process improvement and use of Lean, Six Sigma and/or Kaizen methodologies
- Participating in innovative, game-changing teams, programs, and projects
- Delivering results amidst resource constraints and ambiguity
- Leveraging technology
- Delighting stakeholders
- Communicating successfully across cultures, in writing and in person
- Collecting and analyzing data, including developing and reporting on metrics
- Experience and desire to work in an environment similar to a high tech startup.
- Experience with Smartsheet (or another project planning software), Excel and Word.
- Presentation skills and the ability to articulate complex concepts to cross functional audiences.
- Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations in a matrix team environment