What You'll Do
Avalara is an AI-first company.
You will use AI to enhance productivity, quality, innovation, and customer value. AI is embedded in our workflows, and products. Success at Avalara requires embracing AI as an essential capability, not an optional tool.Avalara's Property Tax team is looking for an enthusiastic
Indirect Tax Researcher
to help ensure our products remain compliant with complex and evolving jurisdictional tax laws. You will be reporting to Manager, Indirect Tax
What Your Responsibilities Will Be
Source content with web searching, emails, and phone calls.
Content needing sourcing is both local and state information.
- Form (~200)
- Depreciation & Trend Schedules (~600 collections)
- Assessor Return and Collector Addresses (~12,000)
- Due Dates for returns, payments. (~12,000)
- Jurisdiction Listings
- Assessors contact information, website addresses (~12,000)
- Legislation and other analysis (i.e., standard asset classification mapping to schedules, (~300 jurisdictions and ~250 asset classes)
- Review content for accuracy (manually or with available technology), including resolving conflicts.
- Store and preserve content in appropriate shared drives, systems.
- Review legislation and other content to provide guidance to clients through software capabilities (ex. Asset classification mapping)
What You’ll Need To Be Successful
- Two years of experience in property tax with a Bachelor's degree;
- Relevant degree, advanced degree, or certification (i.e., Accounting, Finance, Law, and Economics)
- Familiarity with tax returns or government compliance
- Familiarity with Atlassian Confluence and JIRA Previous software implementation experience
- Excellent research skills, including a logical and creative approach to drilling down to specific data to surface information that is important to the accuracy of the published content
- Analytic ability to understand and resolve client requests and tax concerns
- Experience with conditional statements and formulas in Excel and familiarity with Boolean logic
This is a remote position.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 defining the relationship between tax and tech.We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing over 54 billion customer API calls and over 6.6 million tax returns a year. Our growth is real - we're a billion dollar business - 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. 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.
