Sr. Tax Analyst

What You'll Do

As a Tax Analyst on the MyLodgeTax Compliance team, you will help lodging and short-term rental customers manage complex, high-volume lodging tax obligations across thousands of jurisdictions throughout the United States. You will manage critical compliance activities that help protect customer revenue, reduce tax exposure, and maintain confidence in Avalara's lodging solutions.

You will report to Team Lead - Tax - MyLodgeTax - Compliance. You will work in Pune office in hybrid model with 2-3 days to office

What Your Responsibilities Will Be

Responsibilities:

• You will prepare and file multi-jurisdiction lodging tax returns for assigned customers, ensuring accurate submissions that meet service level commitments.
• You review taxpayer reporting, registration data, and filing information to identify discrepancies, compliance risks, and potential exposure that you will submit before returns.
• Resolve filing issues by partnering with customers, taxing jurisdictions, and our teams to ensure successful filing outcomes.
• Investigate and help resolve customer inquiries and lodging tax notices.
• Improve filing cycle times, accuracy, and scalability through process enhancements use of MyLodgeTax and Avalara Returns Console tools.

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Tax, or a related field.
• 3–5 years of indirect tax compliance experience, including exposure to lodging tax, short-term rental tax, sales and use tax, communications tax, or other multi-jurisdiction tax regimes.
• You have experience preparing and filing high-volume, multi-jurisdiction tax returns.
• You Use AI tools to improve efficiency, accuracy, customer experience, or workflow automation, along with a commitment to responsible AI use.
• Accounting licensure, like CPA

#LI-Hybrid

This is a hybrid remote/in-office role.

Avalara is an AI-first Company

AI is embedded in our workflows, decision-making, and products.  Success here requires embracing AI as an essential capability.

• You’ll bring experience using AI and AI-related technologies, ready to thrive here.

• You’ll apply AI every day to business challenges - improving efficiency, contributing solutions, and driving results for your team, our company, and our customers.

• You’ll grow with AI by staying curious about new trends and best practices, and by sharing what you learn so others can benefit too.

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. 

What You Need To Know About Avalara

We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech.

We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing over 54 billion customer API calls and over 6.6 million tax returns a year. Our growth is real - we're a billion dollar business - 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. We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.

We’re An Equal Opportunity Employer

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.