What You'll DoWe are looking for an Analyst to join the DAVO filing team within our Compliance team. The DAVO team provides tax compliance support for our small business customer base. You will be responsible for monthly filings of state tax returns on behalf of the DAVO client base and assist with amendments and other projects as necessary. You will also contact merchants to update account information and resolve account status and funding issues. You will be based in Pune, India and reports to the Manager of our DAVO Tax and Compliance Team.
Job Duties
- You will utilize DAVO systems to gather information about client tax returns and ensure filing data is correct according to DAVO filing procedures.
- You will ensure sales tax returns are accurately filed with state taxing authority websites.
- You will confirm appropriate remittance of tax return funds with state taxing authorities.
- Effectively utilizing experience to solve problems and bring in ideas to deal with various challenges
- Perform root cause analysis in addressing challenging situations at work
- Manage workload to effectively meet deadlines; Ability to meet the strict statutory deadlines and ensuring accurate and timely reporting
- Ability to simplify things rather than making in complicated
- Go beyond to help achieve team objectives rather than just being focused on individual deliveries
- Identify ways to improve process and/or technology to better serve our customers
- Participates in projects and process improvements for the department
- Updates / maintains all spreadsheets and tax calendars for various jurisdictions
- Responsible for ad-hoc projects related to tax discipline. Analyze and summarize tax information and prepare appropriate reports.
- Collaborate with other teams / members to develop and enhance procedures to capture workflow processes for identified responsibilities and support all Automation possibilities
- You will support merchants directly and follow operational policies on when to return sales tax funds to the merchant
- You will update the filing status of returns in the DAVO sales tax processing system.
- You will work with Avalara's Notices Team around any filing penalty situations and proactively work to resolve any issues.
- You will maintain a high level of confidentiality with customer data.
- You will escalate issues to Manager, Tax & Compliance
What You'll Need to be Successful
- You have a Master's degree or equivalent years of experience and between 2-3 years of related professional experience in the filed of Finance or Tax
- Yet still function as a team player
- Ability to prioritize and multi-task to meet strict filing deadlines
- Provides examples of process improvements
- Must have advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Excel and Access (functions include pivot table, vlookup, hlookup, etc.)
- You have exposure to retail point-of-sale devices, sales tax regulations, sales tax filing requirements and how these requirements apply to small retail businesses.
- You have experience with using spreadsheets (Excel, Google Sheets or similar) and writing basic spreadsheet formulas.
- You are able to meet strict filing deadlines.
- You have experience handling sensitive customer data with a high level of confidentiality.
- Experience in working with onsite teams/stakeholders
- Team player
About Avalara
About Avalara:
We’re building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make — 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’s an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation. The logic behind calculating taxes — 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 — from corner stores to gigantic global retailers — to calculate tax accurately and automatically, at speeds measured in milliseconds. That’s a massive technical challenge, in terms of scale, reliability, and complexity, and we do it better than anyone. That’s why we’re 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.
