Consultant

What You'll Do

Role Summary (Why This Role Exists Now)

Global VAT reporting requirements are becoming increasingly complex and audit driven. This role ensures customers successfully implement Avalara’s SVR solutions to achieve accurate, compliant, and timely statutory reporting. The Implementation Consultant (SVR) owns end-to-end delivery of VAT reporting implementations, translating tax and regulatory requirements into scalable system configurations and ensuring customers achieve compliance with minimal manual effort.

How This Role Elevates Avalara

• Customer: Ensures audit-ready, highly accurate VAT reporting across complex business environments.
• Business: Drives successful delivery of high-value implementations, improving retention and expansion.
• Team: Establishes best practices, reusable frameworks, and raises capability in tax reporting implementations.
• Strategy: Strengthens Avalara’s leadership in global compliance reporting solutions.

What Your Responsibilities Will Be

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex SVR implementations across multi-entity and multi-country environments.
• Translate complex VAT regulations into scalable reporting configurations, rules, and data models.
• Design and validate end-to-end tax data flows, reconciliation logic, and reporting outputs.
• Integrate SVR solutions with ERP and financial systems (SAP, Oracle, Dynamics) ensuring data integrity.
• Drive advanced data validation, reconciliation, and audit-readiness processes.
• Act as a subject matter expert for VAT reporting, guiding customers and internal teams.
• Identify and resolve complex data, reporting, and compliance issues with minimal escalation.
• Lead customer workshops and influence decision-making on reporting design and compliance strategy.
• Build reusable reporting frameworks, templates, and accelerators to improve scalability.
• Mentor junior consultants and elevate team capability in VAT reporting and data validation practices.
• Partner with Product and Tax teams to influence product improvements based on implementation insights.

12-Month Success Signals

• Successfully delivers complex SVR implementations with high accuracy and minimal post-go-live issues.
• Reduces reporting discrepancies and audit-related escalations.
• Improves implementation scalability through reusable frameworks adopted across the team.
• Recognized as a subject matter expert in VAT reporting and compliance.
• Contributes to measurable improvements in delivery cycle time and quality.
• Mentors and improves performance of junior consultants.

AI Expectations

• Apply AI to automate tax data validation, anomaly detection, and reconciliation processes.
• Use AI to accelerate regulatory mapping and reporting configuration.
• Leverage AI to identify patterns in reporting errors and improve accuracy.
• Embed AI into reporting workflows to reduce manual effort and improve scalability.
• Quantify impact (accuracy improvement, time saved, reduction in errors).
• Drive adoption of AI practices across the SVR implementation team.

What You'll Need to be Successful

Required

Education: Bachelor's degree (BCA, MCA, B.Tech) from an accredited college or university, or equivalent career experience.

Experience: 5-8+ years in software implementation, tax technology, or ERP consulting.

Core Skills

• Deep understanding of VAT/GST reporting, compliance, and reconciliation processes.
• Strong experience with ERP financial data structures (SAP, Oracle, Dynamics).
• Expertise in tax data flows, reporting logic, and audit requirements.
• Strong analytical skills for complex financial/tax data scenarios.
• Proven ability to lead complex implementations and influence stakeholders.
• Ability to mentor and guide junior team members.

Bar Raiser Expectations

• Sets high standards for reporting accuracy, compliance, and delivery quality.
• Simplifies complex regulatory requirements into scalable solutions.
• Raises team capability through mentorship and knowledge sharing.
• Drives measurable business impact beyond individual projects.

AI Bar Raiser Expectations

• Demonstrates advanced AI application in reporting accuracy and validation.
• Scales AI adoption across SVR implementations to improve outcomes.
• 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

Inclusive culture and diversity

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.