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Global Expansion Manager

Company Name: Amazon
Employment Type:Full Time
Location: UAE
Experience: 5+ years
Degree: Bachelor
Gender:Any
Age:Any  
Nationality: Any
Salary:Unspecified
No. Of Vacancies:1
Job Description:
Job summary
Amazon Web Services (“AWS”) offers a broad set of global compute, storage, database, analytics, application, and deployment services that help organizations move faster, lower IT costs, and scale applications.
The AWS Infrastructure Global Expansion team is seeking a Global Expansion Manager. This individual will help project manage and problem solve for a number of initiatives related to geographic expansion, including new country corporate entity strategy, driving legal and tax research, coordinating strategies with other expansion teams, and contributing to the process for local financial system setups. The ideal candidate will have project management experience, strong judgment, a disposition toward continuous learning, and a passion for understanding the details.

Responsibilities:
· Lead and advise a set of cross-functional teams, including legal, tax, accounting, treasury, infrastructure, sales and product teams, to drive the global expansion of AWS
· Execute multiple time-sensitive, large-scale projects to meet business objectives in defined project timeframes
· Identify, drive, and develop best practices, efficiencies, and project workflows
· Own project management and problem solving for compliance and risk related issues

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
· BA or BS degree OR 5+ years experience as a Project Manager in lieu of a degree
· 2+ years experience working with large, cross-functional teams
· 2+ years project management experience
· 2+ years experience with process improvement
· Experience with project management tools

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
· Understanding of financial systems, customer invoicing, business process workflows, tax reporting, legal risks, and technical accounting
· Excellent writing ability and executive communication
· Experience working with international teams
· Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
· Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role