Job Description

:What You\'ll DoAre you excited about tax research? Do you love technology? Are you apt at problem-solving and analyzing complex legal and compliance tax issues? Do you want to join a dynamic and supportive team in a collaborative work environment that will enhance professional skill development? This is your opportunity to join a highly productive team at a fast-growing Software as a Service (SaaS) company doing what you are passionate about.

• Research VAT/GST law, reporting, and remittance requirements to keep our tax products in compliance with tax laws in all territories required.
• Maintain existing taxability rules for assigned jurisdictions by monitoring tax law changes
• Recommend and contribute to research projects that expand existing content based on market/environmental/legislative changes
• Monitor VAT/GST legislation, administrative decisions, and judicial decisions for changes
• Based upon tax research, validate results of test transactions pre-production
• Build productive working relationships with government taxing authorities and/or legislative research units to maximize the quality of our product
• Collaborate with content research, product management and engineering to implement our solutions

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 degree (i.e. LLB or LLM)
• 3+ years\xe2\x80\x99 experience in VAT/GST/indirect tax, research, consulting, or audit and accounting experience
• 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 at a level sufficient to understand and resolve client requests and tax concerns
• Ability to apply mathematical calculations, percentages, and general accounting rules
• Ability to learn and adapt to different software applications and tools
• Ability to work with large data sets in Excel
• Demonstrated high standards of excellence in work product and professionalism

About AvalaraWe\xe2\x80\x99re Avalara. We\xe2\x80\x99re defining the relationship between tax and tech.We\xe2\x80\x99ve 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\xe2\x80\x99s nearly 5,000 of us now. Our growth is real, and we\xe2\x80\x99re not slowing down - not until we\xe2\x80\x99ve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world.We\xe2\x80\x99re 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\xe2\x80\x99ve 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\xe2\x80\x99ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.EEO StatementWe\xe2\x80\x99re an Equal Opportunity Employer. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company \xe2\x80\x94 we don\xe2\x80\x99t 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.

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