Manager, Accounting

What You'll DoThe Global Accounting team at Avalara is looking for a Corporate Accounting Manager. Reporting to the Global Accounting Senior Manager, you will be a critical part of the Global Accounting team based in India to support accounting responsibilities across Avalara's global operations. You will lead month-end close for our global operations and own important accounting areas, including operating expense accounting and accruals review, prepaid expense review, and consolidations. You will help build out new processes, improving existing workflows, and encouraging a culture. You will be expected to generally work during UK hours (2 pm to 11 pm IST) and beyond that as needed.

What Your Responsibilities Will Be

• Act as the primary point of contact for the month-end close and consolidation process, including closing the books in our accounting system.
• Review of monthly reporting package to ensure timely, accurate financial data that is prepared in compliance with US GAAP and Avalara accounting policies.
• Own global operating expense accounting and month-end accruals process for assigned areas, including review of accruals, prepaids, and other various journal entries.
• Review of global account reconciliations.
• Develop and maintain robust internal controls.
• Review financial statement fluctuation analysis.
• Review requested audit documentation and analysis.
• Collaborate with different functional teams across the globe to standardize accounting processes and policies and actively contribute to a disciplined financial statement close.
  

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

• Chartered Accountant or MBA.
• Ideal background from SaaS industry
• You should have 10+ years of accounting experience, including experience managing others.
• Experience with accounting under U.S. GAAP is required
• Experience with internal controls and SOX compliance required
• Public accounting experience preferred
• Highly proficient analysing data in Microsoft Excel.
• Experience with NetSuite (preferred) or other large ERP systems such as Oracle or SAP.
• Hands on knowledge in using Alteryx and PowerBI, or similar, and experience driving process automation
  

How We’ll Take Care Of YouTotal RewardsIn addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.Health & WellnessBenefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.Inclusive culture and diversityAvalara 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.

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.