What You'll DoWe’re hiring a Senior Tax Analyst for Sales and Use Returns to join our fast-paced team, reporting to the Lead/Manager. This role offers growth opportunities in an innovative environment. You’ll manage complex returns for high-level clients, serving as their main point of contact.As part of the Premium Managed Returns Service, you’ll handle client inquiries and ensure satisfaction. Balancing multiple tasks and setting expectations is key to success.(Pune)
What Your Responsibilities Will Be
- You will prepare, review, and file sales/use, business, and occupation, and gross receipts tax returns for various filing periods.
- You will have to manage a group of customers as their main contact.
- You will research and resolve jurisdictional notices for customers.
- You will have to onboard and validate new sales/use tax return customers.
- You will identify and improve automation across different markets and tax areas.
- You will communicate regularly with customers, jurisdictions, and internal teams to resolve issues.
- You will have to perform quality checks on tax content and form changes.
- You will manage your workload to consistently meet or exceed deadlines.
- You will suggest improvements to processes and technology to better serve customers.
- You will collaborate with staff and management.
- You will troubleshoot critical issues to minimize risk.
- You will use expert knowledge of jurisdiction websites and data entry nuances.
What You’ll Need To Be Successful
- Bachelor’s degree or a master’s degree in Finance with 3 years of relevant experience.
- Comfortable working during US business hours.
- Consistently meets deadlines.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to collaborate on achieving goals.
- Quick to learn new software and tools.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office, especially Excel (Power Pivot, VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP).
- Experience in large corporate tax department, or ERP integration.
- Deep understanding of platform features (nexus, exemptions, marketplace rules, filing calendars, reporting).
- Basic understanding of transaction flow and tax return impact.
- Knowledge of tax calculation, data flow, returns mapping, and filing 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 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.
