Avalara is looking for Tax & Compliance Analyst - Client Services to join our dynamic team and embark on a rewarding career journey
- 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 Youll Need to be Successful
Qualifications
- Sr. Tax Analyst: Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelors degree; or 3 years and a Masters 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
