Principal Functional Consultant

What You'll Do

• Partner with ELR mandate SMEs to understand evolving global e-invoicing requirements.
• Translate regulatory mandates into standardized business and technical design artifacts.
• Create reusable implementation patterns, integration requirements, process flows, and solution blueprints.
• Develop living requirements documentation that evolves alongside regulatory changes.
• Analyze customer Order-to-Cash (O2C) and Procure-to-Pay (P2P) processes and identify impacts from e-invoicing mandates.
• Map business processes to ELR platform capabilities and ERP integrations.
• Advise customers, partners, and other teams on best practices for e-invoicing adoption and compliance.
• Support solution design workshops and discovery sessions.

Responsibilities

• Guide implementation teams (both internal and external), and integration teams through mandate-specific requirements and design decisions.
• Support onboarding and deployment activities for new ELR customers and partners.
• Provide consultation during project execution to ensure successful implementation outcomes.
• Identify risks, gaps, and dependencies early and guide resolution across partners.
• Facilitate requirement clarification and ongoing partner understanding.
• Support internal and external partner enablement activities.
• Contribute to training materials, implementation guides, and partner readiness programs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in ERP consulting, solution architecture, business analysis, product ownership, or enterprise software implementation.
• Experience with Procure-to-Pay (P2P) and Order-to-Cash (O2C) business processes.
• Experience with invoice lifecycle management, accounts payable, accounts receivable, procurement, and financial operations.
• Experience translating requirements into technical designs and implementation guidance.
• Experience working with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics 365, NetSuite, Workday, Infor, or similar platforms.
• Strong stakeholder management and experience communicating complex technical concepts to a variety of audiences.
• Experience working across all teams.
• Experience with global e-invoicing, indirect tax compliance, CTC frameworks, PEPPOL, or digital reporting mandates.
• Product ownership or product management experience.
• Experience designing integrations, APIs, or enterprise application architectures.
• Familiarity with SaaS implementation methodologies and partner ecosystems.
• Experience working with system integrators, ISVs, or technology partners.
• Knowledge of B2B transaction processing and electronic document exchange.
• Experience using AI and AI-related technologies.

Benefits

• Total Rewards: Great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave.
• Health & Wellness Benefits: Vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.
• Inclusive Culture and Diversity: Supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into business practices and organizational culture.

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.
• 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.
• We support diversity, equity, and inclusion, and are committed to integrating them into our business practices and organizational culture.