Indirect Tax Researcher- Vat

What You'll Do:
**Avalara is an AI-first company.** We expect every engineer to use AI to enhance productivity, quality, innovation, and customer value. AI is embedded in our workflows, decision making, and products — and success at Avalara requires embracing AI as an essential capability, not an optional tool.

Are you passionate about VAT research and excited by the intersection of tax and technology? We're looking for a tech savvy individual to join our Indirect Tax team at a fast-growing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company. You'll dive into complex legal and compliance issues related to VAT, contribute to tax solutions, and grow your professional skills in a collaborative work environment.

You will report to the Manager, Indirect Tax.

What Your Responsibilities Will Be:

- Research and interpret VAT/GST laws and regulations, including reporting and remittance requirements, to keep Avalara tax automation products in compliance with international tax laws.
- Maintain existing taxability rules for assigned jurisdictions by overseeing tax law changes and converting these changes into both human readable explanations and machine-readable formats using the latest AI-enabled proprietary technology.
- Conduct unit tests to validate the results of transactions before deployment.
- Collaborate with product management and engineering teams to implement solutions.
- Thoroughly document research findings, providing comprehensive summaries and legal citations.
- Identify opportunities for process automation, tooling optimization, and reducing redundancy to enhance efficiency.
- Use AI copilots, code generation tools, and assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, AmazonQ, ChatGPT) to improve coding efficiency, testing, documentation, and prototyping.
- Upskill in AI-related technologies applicable to daily work.

What You'll Need to be Successful:

- A bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in law, accounting, finance, or economics with 2+ years of experience in indirect tax in advisory or consulting roles.
- Excellent research skills, including a logical, creative, and detailed approach to drilling down to specific data to surface information that is important to the accuracy of the published content.

LI-Remote

This is a remote position.

How We'll Take Care of You:
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

What You Need To Know 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, 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