Business Analyst

What Youll Do

Avalara is looking for a business-experienced and action-oriented business and financial analyst to join Avalara Global Analytics and Insights team and report directly to the Chief of Staff to the President. In this role, you will be responsible for providing analytical insights and recommendations to enable development and application of Avalara best practices in critical and complex areas of financial and operational metrics. You will be responsible to provide exceptional analytical insights that form the basis of GTM strategy, develop scalable models, drive new acquisitions, product and channel decisions. By combining a deep understanding of business concepts with knowledge of statistics and exploratory data analysis, you will uncover actionable insights and catalyze change for Avalaras customers, GTM teams, and Leadership.

This rare opportunity involves creative freedom in generating insights, stakeholder management across multiple global teams and direct influence on our roadmap. This highly visible role will make a significant contribution to the growth of our business.

As a member of the analytics team, you will:

Analytics Team Member Responsibilities:

• Analyze data to identify trends and insights for business goals.
• Perform ad-hoc analysis to support decision-making and efficiency.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate data needs into solutions.
• Ensure data accuracy through validation and quality checks.
• Work with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Engineering, and other teams to investigate, analyze, and present findings and recommendations
• Conduct deep-dives, optimize performance, and test strategies.

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience with analyzing large datasets and generating insights.
• Experience in banking and financial modeling.
• Curious, collaborative, and data-driven.
• Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, or Mathematics.
• Proficient in Python, SQL, Ms Excel; Power BI and statistical modeling.
• Experience with manipulating, questioning, and interpreting data
• Strong communication and ability to influence teams.
• #LI-Onsite

Total Rewards

In addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.

Health & Wellness
Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.

Inclusive culture and diversity
Avalara 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.

Learn more about our benefits by region here: Avalara North America

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, and this year we became a billion-dollar business. Our growth is real, and we re not slowing down 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.

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.

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience with analyzing large datasets and generating insights.
• Experience in banking and financial modeling.
• Curious, collaborative, and data-driven.
• Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, or Mathematics.
• Proficient in Python, SQL, Ms Excel; Power BI and statistical modeling.
• Experience with manipulating, questioning, and interpreting data
• Strong communication and ability to influence teams.
• #LI-Onsite

As a member of the analytics team, you will:

Analytics Team Member Responsibilities:

• Analyze data to identify trends and insights for business goals.
• Perform ad-hoc analysis to support decision-making and efficiency.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate data needs into solutions.
• Ensure data accuracy through validation and quality checks.
• Work with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Engineering, and other teams to investigate, analyze, and present findings and recommendations
• Conduct deep-dives, optimize performance, and test strategies.