Indirect Tax Researcher

Overview:
The individual will be dynamic, energetic, team-oriented and have demonstrated adaptability to change through periods of rapid growth.

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

- Research, monitor, translate & interpret the tax laws and guidelines, evaluate content accuracy, summarize and conclude on content tax decisions and actions
- Interpret and analyze VAT laws, regulations, notifications, circulars, bulletins, etc. to enable accurate tax reporting
- Handle necessary and complex tax issues and special projects for our VAT products
- Become an SME for Avalara VAT products
- Ensure and evolve research methods and bring uniformity to research documentation
- Be responsible for maintaining accurate, complete, and timely content mainly for VAT Reporting
- 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

Qualifications:

- MBA, LLB/LLM in Law
- 3+ years’ experience in Indirect tax compliance reporting (EMEA Compliance is preferred)
- Strong affinity with technology
- Written and spoken fluency in English
- A high comfort level with technical tools

**Preferred Qualifications** (great to have but not necessary)
- Familiarity with tax returns and/or government compliance
- Experience with the use of e-files
- Able to read/write XSD schema
- Fluency in languages other than English
- Familiarity with JIRA
- 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

About Avalara:
**About Avalara**:
We’re building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make — every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, meal kit, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there’s an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation. The logic behind calculating taxes — the rules, rates, and boundaries is a global, layered, three-dimensional mess of complexity, with compliance dictated by governments and applied by every business, every day.

Avalara works with businesses of all sizes, all over the world — from corner stores to gigantic global retailers — to calculate tax accurately and automatically, at speeds measured in milliseconds. That’s a massive technical challenge, in terms of scale, reliability, and complexity, and we do it better than anyone. That’s why we’re growing fast. Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.S. and around the world, in Brazil, Canada, India, U.K, Belgium and across Europe.

**Equal Opportunities**: