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Sr. Business Analyst, Global Tax Data
- london, england, United Kingdom
Job Description
Global Tax Data (GTD) provides data management services and supports program and product initiatives to improve tax data integrity across Amazon's global indirect tax compliance operations. We ensure timely, accurate data is provided for tax compliance reporting and audit readiness. Our teams manage tax data infrastructure, reconciliation tools, and operational reporting for compliance teams worldwide.
As a Sr. Business Analyst in GTD, you will drive data analysis, reconciliation operations, root cause investigations, and process improvements that directly support monthly tax compliance cycles. You will work cross-functionally with tax compliance, finance technology, and accounting teams to ensure data completeness, accuracy, and timeliness.
This is a hands-on role that requires strong analytical skills, comfort with large datasets, and the ability to identify patterns, explain variances, and drive issues to resolution independently.
Key job responsibilities
•Perform monthly tax data reconciliation activities, investigating and resolving discrepancies between source systems, tax reporting warehouses, and general ledger
• Analyze data quality issues, identify root causes, and drive corrective actions with upstream and downstream teams
• Develop and maintain operational reports, dashboards, and metrics that provide visibility into reconciliation health and data readiness
• Own and manage SIM tickets and intake workflows, ensuring timely response and resolution for internal and external stakeholders
• Partner with compliance teams to understand reporting requirements and translate them into data specifications
• Document standard operating procedures, runbooks, and process flows for recurring operational activities
• Identify opportunities to automate manual processes, reduce cycle time, and improve data quality
• Support audit data requests by extracting, validating, and delivering data packages to auditors and tax authorities
• Participate in and contribute to Monthly Business Reviews (MBRs), Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs), and operational readiness activities
- Experience in writing SQL queries and creating business intelligence reports using Tableau, Power BI
- Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights
- Experience with Excel
- Experience with SQL
- Experience making business recommendations and influencing stakeholders
- Experience in financial/business analysis
As a Sr. Business Analyst in GTD, you will drive data analysis, reconciliation operations, root cause investigations, and process improvements that directly support monthly tax compliance cycles. You will work cross-functionally with tax compliance, finance technology, and accounting teams to ensure data completeness, accuracy, and timeliness.
This is a hands-on role that requires strong analytical skills, comfort with large datasets, and the ability to identify patterns, explain variances, and drive issues to resolution independently.
Key job responsibilities
•Perform monthly tax data reconciliation activities, investigating and resolving discrepancies between source systems, tax reporting warehouses, and general ledger
• Analyze data quality issues, identify root causes, and drive corrective actions with upstream and downstream teams
• Develop and maintain operational reports, dashboards, and metrics that provide visibility into reconciliation health and data readiness
• Own and manage SIM tickets and intake workflows, ensuring timely response and resolution for internal and external stakeholders
• Partner with compliance teams to understand reporting requirements and translate them into data specifications
• Document standard operating procedures, runbooks, and process flows for recurring operational activities
• Identify opportunities to automate manual processes, reduce cycle time, and improve data quality
• Support audit data requests by extracting, validating, and delivering data packages to auditors and tax authorities
• Participate in and contribute to Monthly Business Reviews (MBRs), Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs), and operational readiness activities
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in tax, finance or a related analytical field- Experience in writing SQL queries and creating business intelligence reports using Tableau, Power BI
- Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights
- Experience with Excel
- Experience with SQL
- Experience making business recommendations and influencing stakeholders
- Experience in financial/business analysis
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes, or experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)