Lead Financial Insights Analyst

Avalara

17d • Remote

About The Position

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.
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Requirements

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• In addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.
• Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.
• 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 This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed