EU VAT Manager, Indirect Tax Planning

Amazon is looking for a VAT Manager based in either Istanbul, London or Luxembourg to drive and support VAT planning and compliance initiatives for both new initiatives and on-going business activities. Specifically this role will manage VAT affairs for Amazon’s Stores business in Turkey while also supporting wider Pan-EU and EMEA Retail Business projects. In this role, you’ll work closely with local business partners and members of the tax team, delivering expert VAT technical advice to support our VAT legislative, compliance, and on-going tax controversy requirements. You will also manage the VAT relationship with the Turkish Revenue Administration (Gelir İdaresi Başkanlığı). This role is likely to include regular travel across various European and EMEA locations. The candidate must possess the ability to think strategically and manage key Amazon stakeholders as well as building tax authority relationships. In addition strong Turkish VAT and indirect tax skills are essential. The candidate must be able to work in both English and Turkish. Key job responsibilities • Provide in-depth VAT technical advice on both Turkish and cross-border VAT matters, including evaluating and advising on business initiatives, contemplated transactions, and business proposals. • Support extremely complex audit and controversy projects in a hands-on and dynamic way, exercising sound judgement under tight timelines. • Support the VAT Compliance Team on technical and strategic VAT compliance topics; this role is not directly involved in day-to-day compliance activities. • Assist with the delivery of planning, real-time coordination, and communication of various tax-related projects, collaborating with business partner contacts. • Draft the appropriate level of documentation to support analyses performed, decisions made, and conclusions reached for purposes of reporting and compliance. • Manage audit and controversy matters, including proactive engagement with the Turkish Revenue Administration and preparation of responses to queries. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams — including Finance, Legal, and Accounting — to support new business launches and ongoing operations across the Pan-EU and EMEA Retail Business. • Effectively manage networks and strategic stakeholders, and communicate complex VAT concepts - both written and verbally - in ways that are meaningful and useful to non-tax professionals.

The role will report into the Director responsible for VAT in Retail and Operations across EMEA. The successful candidate will have considerable interaction with senior Tax leadership as well as senior leaders from the business, legal, finance and accounting.