Job Description

Overview: Are 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. Responsibilities:

• • 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
  • When opportunities to further automate and streamline processes exist, raise them to Manager and/or Sr Designer to enable prioritization and ticket creation for Engineering
  • Collaborate with content research, product management and engineering to implement our solutions

Qualifications:

• • A natural curiosity about technology and an interest in innovation and learning about new areas of transaction taxes
  • A law degree
  • Excellent legal 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 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

Preferred Qualifications

• • Experience with VAT/GST and global indirect taxes
  • Familiarity with tax returns and/or government compliance
  • Familiarity with Atlassian Confluence and/or JIRA
  • Fluency in languages other than English are a plus
  • Demonstrable experience or qualifications in managing process optimization (e.g. Agile process) is a plus
  • A high comfort level with technical tools

About Avalara:
About Avalara:
We\xe2\x80\x99re building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make \xe2\x80\x94 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\xe2\x80\x99s an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation. The logic behind calculating taxes \xe2\x80\x94 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 \xe2\x80\x94 from corner stores to gigantic global retailers \xe2\x80\x94 to calculate tax accurately and automatically, at speeds measured in milliseconds. That\xe2\x80\x99s a massive technical challenge, in terms of scale, reliability, and complexity, and we do it better than anyone. That\xe2\x80\x99s why we\xe2\x80\x99re 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, colour, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.