At Avalara, ensuring financial stability isn’t just about managing cash—it’s about enabling
innovation, growth, and confidence across a fast-scaling SaaS and AI-driven business. As
our Senior Director, Treasury, you’ll architect a global treasury and risk management
strategy that safeguards the company’s financial strength while empowering us to scale
with speed and resilience.

This is a highly visible leadership role where you'll partner closely with the Chief Accounting
Officer, CFO, Finance, Tax, Legal, and Technology teams. You will oversee global cash,
investments, capital markets, and enterprise risk programs, ensuring Avalara has the
liquidity, structure, and protection it needs to grow worldwide.

Lead global cash & liquidity strategy
• Develop and maintain enterprise-level cash, liquidity, and funding strategies across
all geographies and currencies.
• Build dynamic forecasting models tailored to SaaS recurring revenue and AI
infrastructure investments.
• Optimize working capital, intercompany funding, and global banking structures.

Shape capital structure & financing
• Lead capital markets activities, debt facilities, and credit relationships.
• Maintain an efficient capital structure balancing liquidity, leverage, and shareholder
value.
• Support M&A financing and large-scale investment initiatives.
Guide investment strategy & financial risk management
• Own the Global Investment Policy and ensure disciplined, risk-adjusted returns on
corporate funds.
• Manage investments for liquidity, yield, and capital preservation.
• Oversee enterprise exposure to interest rate, FX, counterparty, and credit risks.
• Design and execute hedging strategies aligned with policy and regulatory
requirements.
• Leverage AI and analytics platforms for predictive risk modeling and scenario
analysis.

Lead global insurance & risk transfer programs
• Oversee comprehensive global insurance coverage including property, casualty,
cyber, D&O, E&O, and business interruption.
• Direct broker relationships, negotiations, policy renewals, and claims management.
• Partner with Legal, HR, Security, and Operations to identify emerging risks such as
AI liability, data privacy, and intellectual property.
• Maintain Avalara’s enterprise risk register and report exposures to the Audit
Committee and senior leadership.

Strengthen treasury operations, systems & controls
• Implement and optimize treasury management systems integrated with ERP and
analytics tools.
• Automate global cash positioning, investment reporting, and risk analytics.
• Ensure strong internal controls, fraud prevention, and treasury governance.
Act as a strategic business partner
• Advise executive leadership on capital allocation, liquidity planning, and enterprise
risk.
• Partner with cross-functional teams globally to support expansion, M&A
integrations, and large-scale technology initiatives.
• Provide thought leadership on how treasury enables Avalara’s long-term growth
strategy.

Education & Credentials
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field required.
• MBA, CPA, CFA, CTP strongly preferred.
• ARM or CPCU a plus.

Experience
• 10+ years of treasury and corporate finance experience, including 5+ years in global
leadership roles within SaaS, technology, or AI-driven companies.
• Proven success managing enterprise insurance programs and global risk transfer.
• Deep expertise in international treasury operations, capital markets, financial risk
management, and investment governance.

Technical Skills
• Experience with treasury systems (e.g., Kyriba, SAP, Workday, Oracle) and ERP
integrations.
• Knowledge of derivative instruments, investment vehicles, and multi-currency
structures.
• Familiarity with ASC 815 (hedging), ASC 820 (fair value), and global accounting
standards.

Core Competencies
• Strategic, data-driven thinker with strong financial modeling and risk analytics
capability.
• Exceptional communication, negotiation, and executive influencing skills.
• Ability to translate complex financial concepts into actionable insights.
• High integrity, sound judgment, and adaptability in a fast-paced environment.

How Success Will Be Measured
• Accuracy and predictability of cash flow and liquidity forecasting.
• Adherence to investment policy, risk limits, and compliance standards.
• Efficiency and adequacy of global insurance programs.
• Reduction of financial and operational risk exposures.
• Successful adoption of automation and AI across treasury operations.
• Strong feedback from leadership, auditors, rating agencies, and cross-functional
partners.

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.