Indirect Tax Researcher - SUT

This is an Indirect Tax Research profile.

We are looking for someone with expertise in researching tax law, reporting, and remittance requirements to keep our tax products in compliance with state, county, and local jurisdiction tax laws for use in Avalara Solutions.

You will analyse complex tax laws and guidelines, understand changes.

As a Tax Researcher, you will be responsible for sourcing, investigating, and analysing US State and locally administered tax rules, rates, forms, and metadata changes promptly to integrate those laws into Avalara products.

We offer a unique opportunity to join a productive indirect tax research team within a growing Software as a Service (SaaS) company.

You will report to Manager, Indirect Tax

• Research U.S. taxes, research on federal and state taxes and regulations, ensuring compliance.
• Ensure content accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of content, for Sales and Use tax and Lodging Taxes.
• Understand and navigate Tax Authority portals.
• Collaborate with tax content research, product management, and engineering teams to implement solutions.
• Thoroughly document research findings and detail, providing comprehensive summaries and expansions upon request.
• Be open to accepting additional responsibilities and occasionally overlapping work schedules with US/UK timing for collaborative meetings or training.
• Lead automation and tax technology projects from creation to completion, including project planning, partner management, resource allocation, and risk mitigation.

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience in indirect tax compliance function and familiarity with indirect tax returns and instructions.
• Masters in finance, Masters in Business Administration, Degree in Law, Bachelor of Commerce, or any related field.
• Indirect tax / digital reporting research experience, including a logical to drilling down to specific data that is important to the accuracy of the published content.
• Convey complex e-invoicing concepts to non-technical partners.
• Legal research experience reviewing research, interpreting complex tax regulations, and developing tax technology solutions.
• Experience working with indirect tax technology solutions/ tax software implementations/ tax process improvement projects.