Sr. Payroll Tax Analyst

Sr. Payroll Tax Analyst

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or related field
• 5 – 7 Years Payroll Tax Experience
• Recent W2/W2C year end experience including 3rd party vendors
• Client facing interaction experience
• Knowledge of payroll
• Tax analyst experience including multistate, localities and reciprocity
• Strong attention to detail and execution
• Strong verbal & written communication skills
• Strong business acumen, e.g. ability to interpret and apply financial data/information to business decisions
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal)
• Strong business partnering skills
• Detail-oriented, organized, and capable of prioritizing workload to complete multiple tasks and meet aggressive deadlines
• Ability to work collaboratively and cooperatively as a member of a team
• Ability to work independently and apply sound judgment
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, Windows, and Excel

Responsibilities

• Review and resolve payroll tax error reports
• Ability to analyze and calculate retroactive tax, gross to net calculations including tax withholding
• Process Improvement recommendations and implementations
• Process W-2 Corrections and Reissues in accordance with IRS Regs
• Review of payroll tax updates for compliance changes
• Provide client support for escalated tax issues
• Resolve employee tax data issues including tax data integrity assurance activities
• Coordinate load of tax data by mechanical input feeds – for implementation mapping
• Process mass tax transactions (EIB)
• Provide problem (SR) resolution support for tax related issues
• Provide support for mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures
• Validation and balancing of tax data
• Resolve any rejects related to tax fallout
• Maintain employee tax records
• All W2 & W2C processing of US and all territories
• Employee tax data integrity
• Accountable for partnering with the internal and external teams to deliver client service with quality
• Record, classify, summarize domestic tax code/law
• Support meeting/exceeding RSL’s and KPI’s and other performance quality objectives
• Oversee tax set up shared services
• Accountable for adherence to the various internal and external audits requirements
• Assist within the team in a multi-client, multi-shore environment
• Handles service escalations from internal and external clients
• Proactively looks for resolution of potential service delivery issues
• Provides reports to clients and account team as required
• Manages special projects required or need to support client ongoing delivery
• Leads adherence to standard practices and client contractual commitments

Preferred Qualifications

• Workday preferred but not required
• Case management tool (HRX, Siebel, SNOW) experience preferred