Indirect Tax Researcher - SUT

What You'll Do

This is an Indirect Tax Research profile. We are looking for someone with expertise in researching tax law, reporting, and remittance requirements to keep our tax products in compliance with state, county, and local jurisdiction tax laws for use in Avalara Solutions.

You will analyse complex tax laws and guidelines, understand changes. As a Tax Researcher, you will be responsible for sourcing, investigating, and analysing US State and locally administered tax rules, rates, forms, and metadata changes promptly to integrate those laws into Avalara products. We offer a unique opportunity to join a productive indirect tax research team within a growing Software as a Service (SaaS) company. You will report to Manager, Indirect Tax

What Your Responsibilities Will Be

• Research U.S. taxes, research on federal and state taxes and regulations, ensuring compliance.
• Ensure content accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of content, for Sales and Use tax and Lodging Taxes.
• Understand and navigate Tax Authority portals.
• Collaborate with tax content research, product management, and engineering teams to implement solutions.
• Thoroughly document research findings and detail, providing comprehensive summaries and expansions upon request.
• Be open to accepting additional responsibilities and occasionally overlapping work schedules with US/UK timing for collaborative meetings or training.
• Lead automation and tax technology projects from creation to completion, including project planning, partner management, resource allocation, and risk mitigation.
  
  
  

What You'll Need to be Successful

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in indirect tax compliance function and familiarity with indirect tax returns and instructions.
• Master’s in finance, Masters in Business Administration, Degree in Law, Bachelor of Commerce, or any related field.
• Indirect tax / digital reporting research experience, including a logical to drilling down to specific data that is important to the accuracy of the published content.
• Convey complex e-invoicing concepts to non-technical partners.
• Legal research experience reviewing research, interpreting complex tax regulations, and developing tax technology solutions.
• Experience working with indirect tax technology solutions/ tax software implementations/ tax process improvement projects.
  
  
  

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.

Learn more about our benefits by region here: Avalara North America

What You Need To Know 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, and this year we became a billion-dollar business. Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down 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.

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.