Tax Senior Manager

What You'll Do

We are seeking a Senior Tax Manager to join our internal Global Tax team in a newly created role. This high-impact position will focus on strategic income tax planning and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) while supporting broader global tax matters including transfer pricing, credits, and incentives. Reporting to the Senior Director of Tax, you’ll collaborate cross-functionally with Accounting, Finance, Legal, and external advisors to proactively manage tax risks and opportunities in a dynamic international environment. *This is an Individual Contributor position with no direct reports. The Tax Senior Manager role can be remote within the United States.

What Your Responsibilities Will Be

• Strategic Tax Planning: Drive the identification, modeling, execution, and ongoing management of domestic and international tax planning strategies to optimize effective tax rate and cash tax outcomes.
• Support M&A Lifecycle: Lead the tax workstream for M&A transactions, including due diligence, structuring, modeling, and post-transaction integration. Partner with corporate development, legal, and finance teams throughout the transaction lifecycle.
• Advance Global Tax Strategy: Support global expansion initiatives, including intellectual property structuring, permanent establishment planning, and transfer pricing optimization in alignment with global mobility and business development plans.
• Regulatory & Legislative Monitoring: Stay current on evolving tax laws and regulatory changes (U.S. and international) and assess their potential business and financial statement impacts.
• Transfer Pricing & Credits: Manage global transfer pricing strategy,  documentation, and compliance. Partner on R&D credit initiatives and other available tax incentives, including modeling and technical analysis.
• Forecasting & Modeling: Develop and maintain long-range tax forecasts and scenario analyses to inform strategic decision-making and reporting.
• Other Tax Functions: Lead tax-related activities for other corporate transactions including divestitures, formations, dissolutions, and reorganizations. Contribute to other tax-related areas including tax provision, tax return, and tax audits, as needed.

What You'll Need to be Successful

Pay Range Details

The base pay range(s) below are provided in compliance with state specific laws. Pay ranges may be
different in other locations.

Colorado $132,400-$208,400 (annually) 
Washington $132,400-$241,400 (annually) 
California $132,400-$259,300(annually) 
NYC $160,300-$264,500annually) 

The pay range above is the general base pay range for a successful candidate in the state listed. The successful candidate’s actual salary/wage may be based on various factors, such as geographic location, candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

This role is eligible for an annual bonus based on individual and company performance, depending on the terms of the applicable plan and the employee’s role.

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.