Sr. Manager, Tax

As a Tax Senior Manager on Avalara's Global Tax team, you will report to the Indirect Tax Director and focus on Avalara's indirect tax compliance function. Your work spans US state and local indirect taxes, Canadian and UK indirect taxes, property taxes, and other non-income tax matters. You will have hands-on responsibility for compliance, tax accounting, audit defense, and collaboration. The Tax Senior Manager can be remote within the United States. This is an individual contributor role with no direct reports.

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  Lead the global indirect tax accounting and compliance lifecycle, including maintaining indirect tax general ledger accounts, ensuring accurate indirect tax filings, and making tax payments.

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  You will be the primary reviewer of calculations, forms, and other information related to indirect taxes. This includes property, sales, gross receipts, use, franchise, and digital service taxes. Additionally, serve as preparer.

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  Manage global external tax service providers and supply them with, complete, and accurate information.

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  You will lead indirect tax audits, including coordinating responses, communicating directly with auditors, gathering and reviewing supporting documentation, and maintaining audit files and correspondence records.

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  Work across time zones with global stakeholders, including other teams, service providers, and tax authorities.

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  Evaluate existing indirect tax processes with a focus toward improvement; identify opportunities to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and scalability through better workflows, automation, or technology.

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  Research indirect tax technical issues, documenting facts, issues, and conclusions completely.

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  Oversee the impact of evolving indirect tax laws and regulations, keeping stakeholders informed and processes aligned.

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  Implement tax-related internal controls and maintain internal control documentation.

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  You will support payroll tax technical matters and create or review state income tax apportionment computations, where needed.

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.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field; CPA or advanced degree (MST/JD/LLM).

• 7+ years of relevant experience in public accounting and/or in industry, with meaningful exposure to US indirect tax compliance.

• You have hands-on experience with US state and local indirect tax, including sales and use tax compliance, tax accounting, audit defense, and taxability analysis; familiarity with GST and VAT.

• Experience Identifying opportunities to improve existing processes to produce a more efficient and accurate indirect tax compliance function.

• You have general familiarity with US GAAP financial reporting concepts, including the ability to prepare journal entries, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules following standard accounting principles.

• Research, analytical, and documentation skills

• Proficiency in Excel and comfort working with large volumes of structured data; familiarity with general ledger systems and tax compliance technology, including Avalara products and NetSuite.

• Experience explaining indirect tax requirements and positions to non-tax stakeholders

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