Sr. Payroll Tax Analyst - Americas

Overview

Responsible for ensuring payroll tax compliance across North America and LATAM regions, serving as escalation point and Subject Matter Expert for complex payroll tax issues.

What you'll do

• Serve as an escalation point and Subject Matter Expert (SME) for complex payroll tax issues.
• Execute quarter and year-end audits by validating QTD/YTD gross to net totals and engaging corporate tax, finance, benefits and equity teams for confirmations.
• Prepare year end reconciliations and resolve discrepancies, which may entail amending tax returns.
• Participate in monthly, quarterly, and annual worker's comp audits to ensure proper filings and payments.
• Manage tax incentives and reimbursement requests.
• Ensure vested RSUs are properly posted to employee earnings per country legislations and GL guidelines.
• Manage timely and accurate posting of all payroll-related journal entries and reconciliations for month end close in accordance with NCRV's close schedule, policies, and procedures.
• Prepare journal entries, reclasses and flux analysis for approval.
• Keep up to date with tax changes and identify necessary system and process changes.
• Perform system and paycheck audits to ensure payroll tax rates reflect current legislations.
• Support internal and external audits related to payroll tax compliance.
• Maintain highest level confidentiality when handling and/or reviewing private information such as social security numbers, banking account information, and earnings statements.
• Stay informed about changes to payroll laws and regulations and assist in implementing necessary changes to payroll processes.
• Participate in HR/payroll projects as the Payroll Tax SME.
• Act as project lead for payroll tax related initiatives, including setting up meetings, discussing solutions and implementing process improvements.
• Assist in researching laws and regulations and how they affect the payroll system and processes.
• May create and maintain complex reports from Workday and other payroll systems.
• Make recommendations on operational task items, system enhancements and optimized employee experience.
• Mentor and coach other payroll team members to aid in their professional development.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or relevant field; an appropriate combination of education and work experience will be considered.
• 5+ years related experience processing high volume, multi-country/multi-state payroll for a mid to large size company.
• 5+ years related experience in payroll tax and accounting.
• Expertise in various HRIS and Payroll systems such as ADP Globalview, ADP Streamline, OSV, CloudPay and Workday.
• Strong knowledge of federal and state regulations related to salaries, wages, taxes, benefits, and other payroll related matters.
• Strong knowledge of General Ledger processes, including journal entries, reconciliations, and flux analysis.
• Consistently achieves goals by prioritizing work and resources appropriately.
• Superior organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks.
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Excel, Word).
• Able to work independently under tight deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and able to work collaboratively.
• Offers of employment are conditional upon passage of screening criteria applicable to the job.

Nice to have

• CPP or Payroll Tax certification.

Details

• Location: Chennai, India.