What You'll DoAs our Rates and Boundary Manager you will be someone to head a team responsible for conducting end-to-end research on tax rates, boundaries, and compliance filing data. Your work will help Avalara's customers to navigate the complex landscape of global tax calculation and reporting.If you are excited about tax research? If you love technology? If you want to analyze complex compliance tax issues? If you want to lead a supportive team in a collaborative work environment to enhance professional skill development? This is your opportunity. You will be reporting to Sr Manager, Tax Compliance Sourcing
What Your Responsibilities Will Be
- Lead and inspire a team of experienced indirect tax researchers focused on rates, boundaries, and compliance filing data
- Oversee the research and interpretation of rates, filing requirements, and boundary shapefiles
- Collaborate with product, tax research, and engineering teams to deliver accurate, applicable insights
- Manage projects to grow research operations following Avalara's growth
- Help shape the future of tax compliance automation through research and technology integration
What You’ll Need To Be Successful
- Manipulate and process boundary shape files and complex tax rate data
- Manage teams, including resource allocation, workload balancing, and giving/receiving constructive feedback
- A natural curiosity about technology and an interest in innovation and learning about new areas of transaction taxes
- A bachelor's degree in Geographic Information Systems or equivalent, in finance, economics, business administration, or accounting with 6+ years of experience processing and manipulating boundary shapefiles. A master's in Geographic Info Systems may be substituted for 3 years of experience.
- Excellent research skills, including a logical, creative, and detailed approach to drilling down to specific data to surface information that is important to the accuracy of the published content.
- You will have 2+ years of tax technology experience, specifically with boundary data
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.
