Avalara is looking for an accomplished Director of FP&A and Strategy, reporting into the SVP, Finance and Strategy to guide financial planning, long-range modeling, and strategic insights that guide our growth trajectory. You will partner with General Managers (GMs), the CFO, and the SVP Finance to connect strategy to financial outcomes, ensuring Avalara delivers predictable, scalable performance. You will manage Avalara's long-range planning model, the "beat and raise" analyst three-statement model, and will lead our efforts to adopt AI and automation across FP&A to improve forecasting accuracy, speed, and insight generation. You combine deep financial modeling expertise with an innovation mindset. This is a fully remote, individual contributor role.

Strategic Planning & Business Partnership

• Partner with GMs, CFO, and senior functional leaders to align strategic and financial goals across Avalara's teams.
• Lead development of the Long-Range Planning (LRP) model, connecting strategic plans to revenue growth, profitability, and cash flow outcomes.
• Provide data-driven insights and financial perspectives to support executive decision-making, capital allocation, and strategic prioritization.
• Improve financial planning processes through automation, AI integration, and predictive analytics.

Financial Modeling & Forecasting

• Manage and refine the "beat and raise" three-statement model, ensuring dynamic forecasting and sensitivity analysis across the P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow.
• Implement AI-enabled modeling capabilities to automate data ingestion, enhance scenario modeling, and identify performance trends.
• Integrate segment forecasts and models into the consolidated enterprise view for CFO and Board-level reporting.
• Promote best practices in modeling design, version control, and model governance across the finance organization.

Operational Excellence & Decision Support

• Establish goals that tie operational execution to financial outcomes.
• Deliver executive-level insights and reporting for quarterly forecasts, earnings preparation, and long-term planning.
• Support projects such as pricing strategy, investment prioritization, and M&A analysis.
• Develop FP&A analysts in advanced modeling, automation tools, and AI adoption.

• 10+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate strategy, or strategic finance; SaaS or high-growth technology experience.
• Expertise in three-statement financial modeling, driver-based forecasting, and long-range planning.
• Experience adopting or applying AI and automation tools for forecasting, trend detection, or data analytics.
• Technical proficiency in financial systems (Adaptive, Anaplan, Planful) and analytics platforms (Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent); experience with SQL or Python.
• Experience communicating analytical findings for a range of different audiences.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field

#LI-Remote

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.

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.

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.