Job Description

• Research tax rates and boundaries, reporting, and remittance requirements to keep our tax products in compliance with state, county, and local jurisdiction tax requirements
• Monitor legislation, administrative decisions, and judicial decisions for changes in transaction tax rate and boundary content in assigned jurisdictional or topical areas
• Apply rate and boundary changes into our software while providing concise documentation of the changes
• Based upon tax research, validate results of test transactions pre-production
• Build productive working relationships with state, county, and city authorities to maximize the quality of our product
• When opportunities to further automate and streamline processes exist, raise them to Manager and/or Sr Designer to enable prioritization and ticket creation for Engineering

Qualifications (absolute must haves walking in the door)

• A natural curiosity about technology and an interest in innovation and learning about new areas of transaction taxes
• Relevant Bachelor's degree (i.e. Geography with emphasis in GIS, Database Systems)
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in a related field if holding a relevant Bachelor's degree OR 3 years' experience in related field if holding a GIS or Database related Master's degree
• Experience with ESRI ArcGIS application or other open GIS applications
• Excellent research skills, including a logical and creative approach to drilling down to specific data to surface information that is vital to the accuracy of the published content
• Effective communication skills (verbal and written)
• Ability to work in and support a team environment through collective team topics, load balancing, and sharing/receiving constructive feedback
• Ability to multi-task, troubleshoot, and problem solve in a calm, analytical and methodical manner that also demonstrates a sense of urgency
• Proactively participate in a dynamic and innovative tax environment by maintaining a high level of energy while being consistently dependable, efficient, and accurate
• Demonstrated ability to manage time to achieve priority results
• Ability to maintain organization and attention to detail
• Analytic ability at a level sufficient to understand and resolve client requests and tax concerns
• Ability to apply basic math, percentages and general accounting rules
• Ability to learn and adapt to different software applications and tools
• Demonstrated high standards of excellence in work product and professionalism

Preferred Qualifications (great to have but not absolutely necessary)

• GIS or Database related Masters Degree
• Project Management Certification
• Indirect tax, research, consulting or audit experience
• Familiarity with tax returns and/or government compliance
• Familiarity with Atlassian Confluence and/or JIRA
• Familiarity with concepts of taxation and how they apply to jurisdiction rates and boundaries
• Experience with SQL and data base management

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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.