Research Analyst

Overview

• Source content via web searching, emails, and phone calls. Content needing sourcing is both local and state information.
• Forms (~200)
• Depreciation & Trend Schedules (~600 collections)
• Assessor Return and Collector Addresses (~12,000)
• Due Dates for returns, payments, etc. (~12,000)
• Jurisdiction Listings
• Assessors contact information, website addresses (~12,000)
• Legislation and other analysis (i.e., standard asset classification mapping to schedules, (~300 jurisdictions and ~250 asset classes)
• Review content for accuracy (manually or with available technology), including resolving conflicts.
• Store and preserve content in appropriate shared drives, systems, etc.
• Process/manipulate content for systems/products to consume accurately.
• Review legislation and other content to accurately provide guidance to clients via software capabilities (ex. Asset classification mapping)
• Organize and prioritize work appropriately amidst various and numerous deadlines across jurisdictions.
  

Responsibilities

Job Duties

Research, analyze and document state, county and local jurisdiction tax law in order to implement and maintain tax content, and keep our products in compliance

Provide industry and transactional tax expertise as it relates to projects

Monitor legislation, administrative decisions, and judicial decisions for changes in property taxes in assigned jurisdictional and topical areas

Translate statutory tax language into machine-readable product codes and taxability rule expressions for our software engine

Identify blockers and impediments and propose solutions.

Identify and apply exemption certificate changes

Create citations and annotations

Build productive working relationships, if necessary, with state, county, and city authorities to maximize the quality and timeliness of our product

Self-manage and prioritize dynamic projects to deliver content within approved timeframes

Collaborate with team members and cross-team partners to deliver holistic solutions

Provide peer review and feedback

Take ownership and lead projects when assigned

Identify opportunities to automate, streamline, and reduce redundancy in current processes.

Qualifications

A natural curiosity about technology and an interest in innovation and learning about property tax and developments within.

Relevant degree, advanced degree, or certification (i.e., Accounting, Finance, Law, Economics)

Five years of experience in property tax with a Bachelor's degree; or 3 years experience with a Master's degree

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 to understand and resolve client requests and tax concerns

Ability to apply basic math, percentages, and general accounting rules Ability to use a laptop and various software, including MS Office, browsers, subscription research services, and Avalara products

Demonstrated high standards of excellence in work product and professionalism

Nice To Have Qualifications

• JD/LLM, and/or CPA/Chartered Accountant in that order of preference
• Familiarity with tax returns and/or government compliance
• Familiarity with Atlassian Confluence and/or JIRA Previous software implementation experience
• Three to Five (3-5) years research or consulting experience in state and local assessments or valuations
• Experience with conditional statements and / or formulas in Excel and familiarity with Boolean logic
  
  

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

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.