Senior Payroll Tax Analyst

Senior Payroll Tax Analyst

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED with 4+ years of payroll tax experience or Workday payroll experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years’ experience

Responsibilities

• Drive ongoing payroll and payroll tax operational activities, identify best practices, and develop recommendations to enhance efficiency.
• Perform internal audits and analyze employee level tax data, determine if adjustments are needed, enter adjustments when necessary, and review work to ensure results are accurate.
• Review escalated employee tax cases to determine action needed and provide excellent customer service to resolve employee questions and meet service level agreements.
• Work with third party payroll tax processor to maintain accurate account information.
• Reconcile tax information between Workday Payroll and ADP, the third-party payroll tax processor, to ensure all employee and company data is accurate.
• Enter and review employee tax data in Workday and performs various payroll tax audits to ensure employee tax set-up and withholdings are correct.
• Research compliance issues, IRS, state and local laws to provide recommendations to ensure compliance and recommend changes to internal payroll and payroll tax processes.
• Collaborate with other teams in all aspects of Payroll Tax matters including new tax initiatives, changes in tax initiatives and with an emphasis of establishing best practices.
• Lead Payroll Tax Operations through Month-End, Quarter-End and Year-End Payroll tasks and projects.
• Respond to external and internal audit requests and address audit findings.
• Onboard acquired companies and employees.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 2+ years payroll tax or payroll experience; or, an advanced degree
• ADP SmartCompliance experience
• Strong preference for Workday payroll tax experience