Associate Analyst

What You'll DoAn Analyst position would involve understanding the various transactions on the Lodging tax form and filing tax returns for US states/counties/cities. Must be a supporting member of the compliance team, ensuring client returns are filed timely and accurately monthly. Work with the team and all other tax personnel to achieve goals and deadlines, as well as observe monthly processes to determine ways that can help streamline the output of the team and the compliance product as a whole.This position requires the ability to learn quickly to start working independently in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where attention to detail, analytical skills, and strong communication skills are essential. Also, would have to provide exceptional customer support in addition to producing timely and accurate results by way of preparing and filing the Lodging tax returns.

Job Duties

• Candidates will be expected to have worked in a previous Tax Preparation and Filing type function and should be conversant with tools like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
• Should be Customer-focused with excellent communication skills to explain and convey information clearly to the clients
• Participate in functional area meetings by not only providing feedback on content but also speaking in front of the team on a specific topic
• Responsible for ad-hoc projects related to tax discipline. Analyse and summarize tax information and prepare appropriate reports
• Working as part of a team and reporting directly to the Supervisor you will be expected to achieve set monthly KPIs and proactively charge clients for all extra time provided.
• Collaborating with all the stakeholders effectively without escalations
• Working closely with colleagues to build trusted client relationships in a timely and cost-efficient manner.
• Participate in committee activities & provide inputs where applicable
• Open to accepting additional responsibilities assigned to meet the deadlines
• Ensuring all Tax filing submissions are completed on time, accurately, and to Avalara targets on efficiency and profitability.
• Ensuring Application-specific data and reporting is fully up to date.
• Achieving key KPI and billing targets. Follow / Establish strong processes around the Filing tasks across relevant jurisdictions
  

What You'll Need to be Successful

• Should have Bachelor's degree with PGDBM/PGDBA/MBA in any Finance
• Minimum 2+ Years of the relevant experience
• Knowledge of Windows, MS Word, and MS Excel is a must.
• Experience in working with onsite teams/stakeholders.
• Excellent logical and analytical skills
• Excellent Organizational skills
• Team player
  

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.Flexible hybrid workingWe support hybrid work and flexible schedules for our employees.Learn more about our benefits by region here: https://careers.avalara.com/

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.Last year, we became a billion-dollar business, and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - there’s nearly 5,000 of us now. Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down - not 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.

EEO Statement

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.