Job Description

Avalara is dedicated to monitoring transaction taxes at the international, state, county and municipal levels and developing software that keeps pace with the dynamics in the market.

Job Duties

• Research tax law, reporting, and remittance requirements to keep our tax products in compliance with state, county, and local jurisdiction tax laws
• Train and mentor Tax Research Analysts through effective review of work product
• Monitor legislation, administrative decisions, and judicial decisions for changes in transaction taxes in assigned jurisdictional or topical areas
• Build and apply taxability, exemption and tax holiday rules into our software while providing concise documentation of the content
• Identify and apply exemption certificate changes
• Based upon tax research, validate results of test transactions pre-production
• Build productive working relationships with state, county, and city authorities to maximize the quality of our product
• When opportunities to further automate and streamline processes exist, raise them to Manager and/or Sr Designer to enable prioritization and ticket creation for Content Engineering

Qualifications

• A natural curiosity about technology and an interest in innovation and learning about new areas of transaction taxes
• Relevant advanced degree or certification (i.e. Accounting, Finance, Law, Economics)
• Eight+ years of proven experience in Indirect taxes with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years related experience with a Master’s degree
• Excellent research skills, including a logical and creative approach to drilling down to specific data to surface information that is vital to the accuracy of the published content
• Effective communication skills (verbal and written)
• Ability to work in and support a team environment through collective team topics, load balancing, and sharing/receiving constructive feedback
• Ability to multi-task, troubleshoot, and problem solve in a calm, analytical and methodical manner that also demonstrates a sense of urgency
• Proactively participate in a dynamic and innovative tax environment by maintaining a high level of energy while being consistently dependable, efficient, and accurate
• Demonstrated ability to manage time to achieve priority results
• Ability to maintain organization and attention to detail
• Analytic ability to understand and resolve client requests and tax concerns
• Ability to apply basic math, percentages, and general accounting rules
• Ability to use a laptop and various software, including MS Office, browsers, subscription research services, and Avalara products
• Demonstrated high standards of excellence in work product and professionalism

Preferred Qualifications

• JD/LLM, and/or CPA/Chartered Accountant in that order of preference
• Familiarity with tax returns and/or government compliance
• Familiarity with Atlassian Confluence and/or JIRA
• Previous software implementation experience a plus
• Eight to Ten (8-10) years research, consulting, or audit experience in state and local or transaction taxes
• Experience with conditional statements and / or formulas in Excel and familiarity with Boolean logic

About Avalara

We’re building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make — every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, meal kit, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there’s an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation. The logic behind calculating taxes — the rules, rates, and boundaries is a global, layered, three dimensional mess of complexity, with compliance dictated by governments and applied by every business, every day. Avalara works with businesses of all sizes, all over the world — from corner stores to gigantic global retailers — to calculate tax accurately and automatically, at speeds measured in milliseconds. That’s a massive technical challenge, in terms of scale, reliability, and complexity, and we do it better than anyone. That’s why we’re growing fast. Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.S. and around the world, in Brazil, Canada, India, U.K, Belgium and across Europe.

Equal Opportunities:

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

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Job Types: Full-Time. Job Tags: content, Research, and Tax.

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