Indirect Tax Researcher

Overview:
We are looking for a dynamic, energetic, team-oriented individual who has demonstrated adaptability to change through periods of rapid growth. The role involves problem-solving and analyzing complex legal VAT/GST research.

This is your opportunity to join a highly productive indirect tax research team at a fast-growing Software as a Service (SaaS) company doing what you may be very passionate about. With us, you should be ready to deep dive into stimulating indirect tax research projects to make a signifacant impact.

**Responsibilities**:

- Research VAT/GST law, reporting, and remittance requirements to keep our tax products in compliance with tax laws in all territories required.
- Maintain existing taxability rules for assigned jurisdictions by monitoring tax law changes
- Recommend and contribute to research projects that expand existing content based on market/environmental/legislative changes
- Monitor VAT/GST legislation, administrative decisions, and judicial decisions for changes
- Based upon tax research, validate results of test transactions pre-production
- Build productive working relationships with government taxing authorities and/or legislative research units to maximize the quality of our product
- Collaborate with content research, product management and engineering to implement our solutions

Qualifications:

- A natural curiosity about technology and an interest in innovation and learning about new areas of transaction taxes
- Relevant degree (i.e. LLB or LLM)
- 3+ years’ experience in VAT/GST/indirect tax research, consulting, or advisoy 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
- 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 work with large data sets in Excel
- Demonstrated high standards of excellence in work product and professionalism

About Avalara:
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.

Last year, we became a billion-dollar business_,_ and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - there’s nearly 5,000 of us now. Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down - not 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.

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