What You'll Do
Avalara’s Business Transformation team is looking for a highly motivated individual to join as a Senior Business Transformation Manager. This position will focus on evaluating and building key strategic initiatives across Avalara’s product lines and functions. We are looking for a self-starter who can own meaningful projects from concept to approval. This role is focused on building out analysis and modeling that supports project proposals.
The company relies on our Business Transformation team to provide proposals and insights that can drive EBITDA and further optimize all pricing and related GTM models. We align the organization, end-to-end, around the highest-level objectives by backing our recommendations with sound business cases. Given the high level of visibility and influence this position has, we expect candidates to have sharp attention to detail and experience in using data to drive recommendations.
This role will report to our Director, Business Transformation
We are open to fully remote or in-office
Responsibilities:
• Define project scope and objectives in order to kickoff strategic projects
• Drive business cases that provide clear and direct recommendations on opportunistic projects
• Build financial models and forecasts that support proposals
• Suggest scenario analysis that provides stakeholders with options to assess
• Quantify project size in relation to overall business and enterprise goals
• Organize data requirements, request/pull data from key systems and cleanse attributes for processing
Job Duties
Responsibilities:
• This role requires analytical horsepower that can:
• Join disparate datasets
• Produce meaningful statistics and findings
• Surface relevant KPIs and metrics
• Unlock insights for business leaders
• * As an Individual contributor, you will lead multi-faceted projects from concept to approval, including:
• Driving ideation and creative thinking around project solutions
• Recommending innovative analytical approaches and untapped perspectives on approach
• Creating cost/benefit analysis, customer migration paths and projected financials
• Building data models that reflect future outcomes and fence complexity for executive presentation
• Standing up reports and dashboard that help us understand our business and our competitor's positioning
• Delivering execution plans and milestones that include specific and actionable steps for implementation
What You'll Need to be Successful
Required Experience:
• Excellent quantitative and qualitative abilities that drive structured, logical thinking/sequencing; Ability to convert reasoning and analysis into executive level summaries
• Strong track record of organized and methodical approaches for meeting timelines, tracking statuses, reporting progress, raising issues/risks and managing tasks
• Experience in applying “out of the box” thinking to business problems and challenges
• Ability to leverage newly acquired knowledge and understanding to new and existing growth objectives
• Develop ideas that can simplify, optimize, or automate in an environment where small changes can impact multiple projects
• Quality of work needs to meet very high standards; there is an expectation for high attention to detail on all work deliverables
Qualifications:
• BS/BA from an accredited college or university
• MBA preferred
• 5+ years of demonstrated role progression in management consulting, investment banking, corporate strategy, operational transformation, or similar roles
Technical Skills:
Must-Have:
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.)
• Strong ability to build clean and clear slide decks
• Strong ability to process, visualize and analyze data (SQL, Snowflake, Excel, PowerBI)
Good-to-Have:
• Knowledge of sales & use tax
• Experience with CRM software like Salesforce (CPQ)
• Experience with tracking software like Atlassian Jira/Confluence
• Experience with Product based company
• Experience with SaaS based solutions
About the Team
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. Headquar
Location: United States
Posted: Oct. 13, 2024, 3:31 a.m.
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