Lead Financial Insights Analyst

What You'll Do: As our Lead Financial Insights Analyst, you will be an individual-contributor within Avalara's Global Analytics and Insights organization. You will play a critical part in advancing Avalara's financial transformation efforts by generating high-quality insights, building analytical frameworks, and ensuring more data-driven strategic and operational decisions. You will illuminate the financial impact of business activities, uncover value-creation opportunities, and guide the evolution of forecasting, reporting, and performance measurement practices. You will partner with Finance, FP&A, Accounting, and department leaders to shape how Avalara understands revenue, margin, profitability, and financial drivers across the enterprise. You will report to the Senior Director, Value Creation Insights. This is a remote position in the United States. #LI-Remote What Your Responsibilities Will Be: • Develop transparent financial models that support forecasting, strategic planning, and financial transformation programs. • Analyze performance and identify the costs of operational and strategic decisions. • Conduct scenario analysis, sensitivity modeling, and risk assessment to support better decision-making. • Partner with leaders including General Managers (GM's), Accounting, Financial Planning and Analysis, Sales, Marketing, Product, and Operations to assess costs of business strategies. • Produce clear, data-backed insights that inform investment decisions, resource allocation, and cost optimization. • Support strategic planning plans by developing financial analyses that clarify tradeoffs and highlight value-creation levers. • Develop standardized dashboards, and KPI frameworks that improve financial and operational performance visibility. • Deliver recurring performance reviews and variance analyses, highlighting the drivers of performance and possible effects for future periods What You'll Need to be Successful: • 6+ years experience in financial analysis, FP&A, business insights, strategic finance, or a similar analytical role (or 4–6+ years with a Master's). • Expertise in financial modeling, forecasting, and performance measurement. • Proficiency with BI and analytical tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar platforms. • You have advanced SQL experience with financial data modeling, validation, and transformation. • You have experience connecting analytical work to operational and financial outcomes. • Experience in a SaaS, B2B, or technology. • You have familiarity with revenue forecasting, cost modeling, unit economics, and financial business cases. • You have experience working with DBT. Pay Range Details The base pay range(s) below are provided in compliance with state specific laws. Pay ranges may be different in other locations. Colorado $126,000-$201,600 (annually) Washington $139,200-$222,800 (annually) California $139,200-$244,000(annually) NYC $152,600-$244,000 (annually) The pay range above is the general base pay range for a successful candidate in the state listed. The successful candidate’s actual salary/wage may be based on various factors, such as geographic location, candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations. This role is eligible for an annual bonus based on individual and company performance, depending on the terms of the applicable plan and the employee’s role. 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. Apply tot his job