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Sr. Payroll Tax Consultant - Workday
This role will be responsible for the overall tax management of the U.S. Payroll and the quarterly/year end processes. This part of the role will perform quarterly tax reconciliations between Workday and ADP to ensure filings are complete and accurate and monitor all tax notices with ADP to ensure they are resolved in a timely manner.
Experience Level: Senior
Responsibilities:
• Coordinate with the U.S. Payroll team and ADP to perform quarterly reconciliations, filings, amendments, and tax notices
• Review payroll adjustment requests to ensure proper authorization and compliance with payroll policies, federal, state, and local regulations. Advises team and management of appropriate corrective action when an error occurs.
• Prepare and/or monitor payroll tax activities and coordinate with Finance to reconcile identified discrepancies including processing/advising on appropriate accounting transactions to balance accounts
• Research and monitor regulatory and legislative changes to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations
• Respond to payroll inquiries to explain pay calculations, adjustments, and impact of policies, tax regulations, and related changes
• Coordinate with vendors and/or review payroll systems/applications to ensure changes submitted are correctly reflected on the payroll. May be responsible for system/application testing (e.g. WD new releases), as necessary
• Manage payroll projects/process improvement initiatives
Skills/Qualifications:
• 7-10 years of payroll experience required, with a sound payroll tax background
• Extensive knowledge of federal, state, and local tax regulations
• Must be familiar with all aspects of payroll processing including payroll production, quarterly reconciliations, garnishments, year-end processing, tax filings, etc.
• Solid understanding of employment taxes and GL helpful
• Workday payroll Experience - MANDATORY
This role will be responsible for the overall tax management of the U.S. Payroll and the quarterly/year end processes. This part of the role will perform quarterly tax reconciliations between Workday and ADP to ensure filings are complete and accurate and monitor all tax notices with ADP to ensure they are resolved in a timely manner.
Experience Level: Senior
Responsibilities:
• Coordinate with the U.S. Payroll team and ADP to perform quarterly reconciliations, filings, amendments, and tax notices
• Review payroll adjustment requests to ensure proper authorization and compliance with payroll policies, federal, state, and local regulations. Advises team and management of appropriate corrective action when an error occurs.
• Prepare and/or monitor payroll tax activities and coordinate with Finance to reconcile identified discrepancies including processing/advising on appropriate accounting transactions to balance accounts
• Research and monitor regulatory and legislative changes to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations
• Respond to payroll inquiries to explain pay calculations, adjustments, and impact of policies, tax regulations, and related changes
• Coordinate with vendors and/or review payroll systems/applications to ensure changes submitted are correctly reflected on the payroll. May be responsible for system/application testing (e.g. WD new releases), as necessary
• Manage payroll projects/process improvement initiatives
Skills/Qualifications:
• 7-10 years of payroll experience required, with a sound payroll tax background
• Extensive knowledge of federal, state, and local tax regulations
• Must be familiar with all aspects of payroll processing including payroll production, quarterly reconciliations, garnishments, year-end processing, tax filings, etc.
• Solid understanding of employment taxes and GL helpful
• Workday payroll Experience - MANDATORY
