What You'll Do
- You will be a hybrid worker and revolve around monitoring transaction taxes at the international, state and municipal levels and developing software that keeps pace with the dynamics in the market, and will report to Manager, Indirect Tax
- Research and document VAT/GST and other international indirect tax laws to implement and maintain tax content, and keep our products in compliance.
- Provide VAT/GST expertise as it relates to projects.
- Monitor legislation, administrative decisions, and judicial decisions for changes in transaction taxes in assigned jurisdictional and topical areas.
- Translate statutory tax language into machine-readable product codes and taxability rule expressions for our software engine.
- Identify blockers and impediments and propose solutions.
- Create citations and annotations.
- Prioritise dynamic projects to deliver content within approved timeframes
- Mentor Tax Research Analysts through review of work product
- Collaborate with team members and cross-team partners to delivery holistic tax solutions.
- Provide peer review and feedback.
- Take ownership and lead projects when assigned.
- Identify opportunities to automate redundancy in current processes.
- Build productive working relationships with tax authorities to maximize the quality of our product.
What You'll Need to be Successful
- 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, and Economics)
- 8+ years of proven experience in VAT/GST with a Bachelor's degree; or 6 years related experience with a Master's degree
- Excellent research skills, including a logical to drilling down to specific data to surface information that is important to the accuracy of the published content
- Work in and support a team environment through collective team topics, load balancing, and sharing/receiving constructive feedback
- Analytic ability to understand and resolve client requests and tax concerns
- Work with large datasets in Excel
About The Team
Our team consists of a eclectic bunch of lawyers and tax professionals who bring our expertise to build a world-class tax compliance library. We proudly call ourselves as Tax technologists are a bunch working in a a collaborative work environment to enhance professional skill development.
How We'll Take Care of You
Total Rewards
In addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.
Health & Wellness
Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.
Inclusive culture and diversity
Avalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship.
Flexible hybrid working
We support hybrid work and flexible schedules for our employees.
Learn more about our benefits by region here: https://careers.avalara.com/
About Avalara
We’re Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech.
We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year.
Last year, we became a billion-dollar business
, and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - there’s nearly 5,000 of us now. Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down - not until we’ve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world.
We’re bright, innovative and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear. It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we’ve designed, that empowers our people to win. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them.
We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.
EEO Statement
We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company — we don’t want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. 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. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.
