Associate Analyst

What You'll DoWe are looking for a Sales and Use Returns Tax Analyst to join our fast-paced, dynamic company. This is a great opportunity for a candidate to work in an innovative environment and grow within our business. The Analyst will be responsible for identifying areas of improvement as well as serving an elite group of customers with highly complex returns as their primary point of contact. Candidate must be highly driven, detail oriented and proficient at balancing multiple priorities/issues.

Relationship Management and Communication

This role is specific to the Premium Managed Returns Service offering where you will be providing a high level of service to taxpayers signed up for the returns service. As a tax analyst on the Premium Returns team, you are the first point of contact for customer interactions. In this role, you should expect to dedicate a portion of your day fielding communication, both internal and external, regarding customer returns service. To succeed, you must be comfortable taking ownership of your customer’s overall satisfaction and you must be empathetic to customer needs. Your understanding of the customer’s needs will enable them to get the full benefit of Avalara’s expertise and software enabling them to self-serve where possible. Compliance is complex, so your ability to set expectations and relay information in an easily understood manner is essential; this includes potential escalations where clear and timely communication is imperative.

Job Duties

Job Duties

• Prepare, review, and file multi-jurisdictional sales/use, business and occupation, and gross receipts tax returns for monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and annual filings
• Manage a select group of customers as their primary point of contact
• Ability to research and resolve jurisdictional notices on behalf of customers
• Responsible for the on-boarding and validation of new sales/use tax returns customers
• Responsible for identifying and improving automation to serve our customers across a variety of market and tax verticals.
• Communicate regularly and effectively with customers, jurisdictions and other internal teams as part of research and resolution
• Perform QA related to sales and use tax content and form changes
• Manage workload to effectively meet deadlines
• Identify ways to improve process and/or technology to better serve our customers.
• Work collaboratively with all staff members and management
  

What You'll Need to be Successful

Qualifications

• (I2) Tax Analyst: Typically requires a Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 2 years of related experience; or an advanced degree without experience; or equivalent work experience.
• (I3) Sr. Tax Analyst: Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 3 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD without experience; or equivalent work experience.
• Strong analytical, research, and problem solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work independently yet still function as a team player
• Ability to prioritize and multi-task to meet strict filing deadlines
• Ability to learn and adapt to different software applications and tools
• Must have advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Excel (functions include power pivot, vlookup, hlookup, etc.)
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in accounting or finance
• Experience with a Big 4 firm, large corporate tax department of a multinational company, or large ERP integration
  

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.