What You’ll Do:
Global e-invoicing and Continuous Transaction Control (CTC) regulations are evolving rapidly, requiring organizations to adapt business processes and technology at an unprecedented pace. As Avalara expands its E-Invoicing and Live Reporting (ELR) capabilities, we need experienced functional consultants who can translate complex regulatory requirements into scalable implementation designs that accelerate customer adoption and ensure compliance.
The Senior Functional Consultant serves as the critical bridge between regulatory mandates, business processes, and technical implementation teams. Working across Product, Engineering, Professional Services, ERP Connector teams, and strategic partners, this role transforms evolving global requirements into repeatable implementation patterns that improve delivery consistency, reduce deployment friction, and help customers achieve faster time-to-value.
How This Role Elevates Avalara
Strengthen collaboration across Product, Engineering, Professional Services, and strategic partners to improve customer outcomes.
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What Your Responsibilities Will Be:
Translate complex regulatory mandates into structured business requirements, functional designs, implementation guidance, and reusable solution patterns.
Serve as the primary functional liaison between regulatory experts, Product Management, Engineering, ERP Connector teams, Professional Services, and external partners.
Continuously improve methodologies, frameworks, reusable assets, and implementation standards across the ELR ecosystem.
Within the first 12 months, this consultant will:
Strengthen cross-functional collaboration across Product, Engineering, Professional Services, and partner organizations.
What You'll Need to be Successful:
AI Bar Raiser Expectations
At Avalara, all consultants are expected to apply AI in ways that improve customer outcomes, delivery quality, and operational effectiveness. As an AI Bar Raiser, this role will help advance how functional consulting leverages AI to accelerate analysis, improve implementation quality, and scale knowledge across the organization.
The successful candidate will:
Use approved AI tools to accelerate requirements analysis, documentation development, solution design, and knowledge management.
At Avalara, we hire Bar Raisers, professionals who elevate how teams solve problems, collaborate, and deliver customer value. As a Senior Functional Consultant, this role is expected to strengthen implementation quality, improve cross-functional execution, and leave customers, partners, and internal teams better equipped for future success.
The successful candidate will:
Build trusted relationships across Product, Engineering, Professional Services, partners, and customers.
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline and 7+ years of experience in ERP consulting, solution architecture, business analysis, product ownership, or enterprise software implementation.
Experience with invoice lifecycle management, accounts payable, accounts receivable, procurement, and financial operations.
Experience with ERP platforms including SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics 365, NetSuite, Workday, Infor, or similar enterprise systems.
Experience supporting global e-invoicing, indirect tax compliance, CTC frameworks, PEPPOL, or digital reporting mandates.
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
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.
