Overview:
To support our continued goals of growth and efficiency, we are looking for an exceptional treasury professional to join our Global Client Payments team.
As a Senior Analyst on this team, you will be supporting new launches and existing payment methods for our worldwide business customers.
This role will be responsible for banking partner relationship management, daily and month-end bank account reconciliation outgoing tax payment processing, working with bank partners and tax jurisdictions, supporting monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting, and responding to customer inquiries.
Reporting to the Manager of Global Client Payments, you will also work to improve operational processes by participating in automation projects and initiatives.
*We’re opening this role to candidates located in commuting distance from our Durham, NC office as this will be a hybrid role.
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Responsibilities:
Prepare and/or review complex high-volume payment transactions using the Avalara treasury management system, Data360 Analyze, and Excel.
Support daily and month-end bank account reconciliation and monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting.
Identify and resolve unique issues with substantial significance during payment processing, recognizing exceptions, and conducting in-depth analysis.
Recommend and develop automation solutions that may require policy changes or the development of new processes.
Play a role in the planning, testing, and implementation of ACH Credit payment migration initiatives for multiple business units.
Interact with different parties including tax jurisdictions, banking partners, internal compliance teams, and product/engineering.
Engage in continuous critical analysis of existing systems and processes; make recommendations to achieve greater efficiencies and improve internal controls.
Review, design, and implement appropriate internal control programs, research new regulations, and implement approved changes.
Manage compliance program for area of responsibility, interpret internal policy and external regulations, and provide audit support.
Provides input to business requirements for the design of solutions.
Build and strengthen partnerships across the CCO organization
Special projects as assigned (i.
e.
assisting with the integrations of newly acquired organizations and the setup of new operations)
Qualifications:
5+ years of experience in Treasury/Finance/Accounting
Extensive experience manipulating data with excel preferred.
SQL or InfoGix experience a plus.
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and/or Finance, business management or a related field.
Experience working within a fast-paced financial institution.
Strong research and analytical skills with the ability to summarize complex findings.
Advanced professional communication skills, including the ability to prepare materials for and clearly and effectively communicate information to internal and external audiences, client groups, and management.
Strong project management skills and ability to contribute to or lead part of a multi-functional team.
A builder's mindset with a willingness to question assumptions and conventional wisdom
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.