Sr. Manager, Business Analytics & Finance
Pune
Overview:
Avalara is seeking a business-savvy, action-oriented, results-driven strategic manager to join the Global Analytics and Insights team as Manager – Data management. In this role, you will be responsible for leading a team of business and finance analysts who will support Global Analytics & Insights (GAI) and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) goals at Avalara.Your primary functional responsibilities will encompass overseeing the team in providing exceptional analytical insights that support modeling, forecasting and business decisioning for the GAI and FP&A teams. By combining a deep understanding of Avalara’s business, and SaaS business concepts with knowledge of statistics and exploratory data analysis, your team will uncover actionable insights and catalyze change for Avalara’s customers.
Your additional functional responsibilities may include budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting processes, providing insightful financial analysis to senior leadership, and collaborating cross-functionally to optimize financial performance.
With a focus on accuracy, efficiency, and strategic alignment, you'll leverage your expertise to enhance financial visibility, identify growth opportunities, and mitigate risks.
This rare opportunity involves creative freedom, stakeholder management across multiple global teams, and direct influence on Avalara’s roadmap. This highly visible role will make a significant contribution to the growth of our business and will make a lasting continuous impact.
In this role, you will- Provide analytical deep dives, read-outs, executive presentations, and business analysis artifacts
- Create meaningful and insightful data visualizations, reports, and dashboards using tools like Power BI, or data visualization libraries in Python or R
- Ensure consistent and high quality deliverables, with coding and project documentation up to date.
- Understand the stakeholder business requirements and do end to end scoping for the project deliverables
- Work cross-functionally for various programs and initiatives; make clear, coherent and holistic recommendations
- Responsible for supporting finance team including gathering, modeling, analyzing, and summarizing financial and headcount information for use in budgeting, financial modeling, forecasting, reporting and KPIs for recurring deliverables and/or ad-hoc analytics
- Provide supervision and development opportunities for analysts by hiring and training; performance management, mentoring; assigning duties; and providing recognition
Qualifications:
Requirements:
- Minimum 6+ years of relevant work experience in analyzing large, multi-dimensional datasets and synthesizing data insights into actionable recommendations.
- Minimum 3+ Years of relevant work experience in managing analytics teams. Experience managing Finance analysts is a plus.
- Data-driven mindset with a degree in a quantitative discipline such as Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, or Mathematics
- Fluent in SQL, Adaptive Insights, Microsoft Office Suite; experience with visualization tools such as PowerBI and building statistical models preferred.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills to influence cross-functional teams, and executive leadership
- Above all comfort with data – the ability to manipulate it, question its validity, interpret it, and develop recommendations based on it
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.
Last year, we became a billion- dollar business, and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people
- there’s nearly 5,000 of us now.
- not until we’ve achieved our mission
- to be part of every transaction in the world.
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.
EEO Statement
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.
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