Business Analyst

What You'll Do

Avalara is looking for a business-experienced and financial analyst to join Avalara Global Analytics and Insights team and report directly to the Chief of Staff to the President. You will provide analytical recommendations to ensure development and application of Avalara best practices in critical and complex areas of financial and operational metrics. You will provide analytical insights that form the basis of GTM strategy, develop scalable models, guide new acquisitions, product and channel decisions. By combining an understanding of business concepts with knowledge of statistics and exploratory data analysis, you will uncover actionable insights and catalyze change for Avalara's customers, GTM teams, and Leadership.

This rare opportunity involves creative freedom in generating insights, team member management across multiple global teams and direct influence on our roadmap. This is a visible role will make a significant contribution to the growth of our business.

What Your Responsibilities Will Be

As a member of the analytics team, you will:

Analytics Team Member Responsibilities

• Analyze data to identify insights for team goals.
• Perform ad-hoc analysis to support decision-making and efficiency.
• Partner with teams to translate data needs into solutions.
• Ensure data accuracy through validation and quality checks.
• Work with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Engineering, and other teams to investigate, present and recommendations
• Conduct deep-dives, optimize performance, and test strategies.
  
  

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience analyzing large datasets and generating insights.
• Experience in banking and financial modeling.
• Curious, collaborative, and data-driven.
• Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, or Mathematics.
• Proficient in Python, SQL, MS excel (can maintain complex spreadsheets); Power BI and statistical modeling.
• Experience manipulating, questioning, and interpreting data
  
  

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

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.