Indirect Tax Researcher

Overview:
Are you excited about tax research? Do you love technology? Are you apt at problem-solving and analyzing complex legal and compliance tax issues? Do you want to join a dynamic and supportive team in a collaborative work environment that will enhance professional skill development? This is your opportunity to join a highly productive team at a fast-growing Software as a Service (SaaS) company doing what you are passionate about.

This is an Indirect Tax Research profile for e-invoicing. We are looking for an individual with proven expertise in research on e-invoicing/ live reporting/ VAT/ GST and other indirect taxes.

**Responsibilities**:
**Responsibilities**:

- Research, monitor, translate & interpret the tax laws and guidelines, evaluate content accuracy, summarize and conclude on content tax decisions and actions.
- Be responsible for maintaining accurate, complete, and timely content mainly for E-invoicing/live reporting capabilities.
- Analyze and understand XSD schemas and other technical information for our e-invoicing reporting software solutions (XML, CSV, TXT,)
- Understand how to connect with the Tax Authority’s portals
- Suggest and lead improvements in our software solutions
- Collaborate with tax content research, product management and engineering to implement our solutions
- Document research findings in each format providing a clear summary of the changes and being able to expand upon request. Attention to detail is a key element of this role
- Effectively work and communicate with team members to accomplish specific tasks in a timely, efficient and productive manner.
- Participate in committee activities and provide input where applicable
- Open to accept additional responsibilities assigned to meet deadlines
- Maintain compliance with all company policies and procedures
- Must be flexible to overlap work schedule with US/UK timing, as needed for collaborative meetings or training
- Other possible functions to be covered upon business needs are: Maintain existing taxability rules for assigned jurisdictions by monitoring tax law changes
- Identify opportunities to automate, streamline, and reduce redundancy in current processes.

Qualifications:
**Required Qualifications**:

- A natural curiosity about technology and an interest in innovation and learning about new areas of transaction compliance
- Relevant advanced degree or certification (i.e. Accounting, Finance, Law, Economics)
- 2-3 years of proven experience in Indirect taxes with a Bachelor's degree: EMEA VAT /India GST / Indirect tax experience
- 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
- Understanding and knowledge on ERP systems and their database structures (SAP, ORACLE, JD Edwards, other ERP’s)
- 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
- 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 use various software, including MS Office, browsers, subscription research services, and Avalara products
- Demonstrated high standards of excellence in work product and professionalism

**Preferred Qualifications** (great to have but not necessary)
- Familiarity with indirect tax returns and/ live reporting/e-invoicing government compliance
- Experience with the use of e-files
- Able to read/write XSD schema
- Fluency in languages other than English
- Familiarity with JIRA
- Understanding of digital transmission/ API's are a plus
- Previous software experience a plus
- Fluency in languages other than English are a plus
- Demonstrable experience or qualifications in managing process optimization (e.g. Agile process) is a plus

**Working Style**:

- **_ Urgency:_** Strong bias for action and the achievement of tangible results; set clear & lofty goals for the organization and pursues them with enthusiasm and energy; quickly sizes up multiple situations and complex problems and makes excellent, timely decisions.
- **_ Communications:_** Ability to communicate complex indirect tax concepts and processes in an effective manner to external and internal audiences with varying levels of tax domain knowledge. Must possess excellent global negotiation skills.
- **_ Analysis and Problem Solving:_** Deliver content curation solutions that have a positive organizational impact & sustainably influence future directions.
- **_Adaptability:_** Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity and to balance short versus long-term demands and opportunities.

About Avalara:
**About Avalara**:
We’re building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transactio