What You'll Do
This is an Indirect Tax Research profile. We are looking for an individual 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. We are seeking an accomplished professional with a academic background and domain experience. We offer a unique opportunity to join a indirect tax research team within a growing Software as a Service (SaaS) company. You will report to Manager, Indirect Tax.
In this role, you will analyze and interpret complex tax laws and guidelines, understand changes, and be able to summarize and/or expand the information reported upon request. As a Tax Researcher, you will be responsible for sourcing, investigating, and analyzing US State and locally administered tax rules, rates, forms, and metadata changes promptly to integrate those laws into Avalara products.
What You'll Need to be Successful
Ensure the accuracy and timeliness of tax information demands research efforts. Given the dynamic nature of indirect tax laws and rate trends, a commitment to learning and staying updated on developments is necessary to remain in this role
- 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.
- In interpreting tax laws and regulations to meet legal and regulatory standards.
- Understand and navigate Tax Authority portals.
- Collaborate with tax content research, product management, and engineering teams to implement content
- Thoroughly document research findings in 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.
- Identify opportunities for process automation, streamlining, and reducing redundancy to enhance efficiency.
- Lead automation and tax technology projects from inception to completion, including project planning, stakeholder management, resource allocation, and risk mitigation.
About The Team
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.
