Senior Payroll Tax Accountant
TEKsystems
Description
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 • Assist in performing daily payroll activities to ensure timely, accurate, and compliant payroll processing including quarterly and year-end tax activities • Analyze existing policies, procedures, and practices to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local tax regulations. Recommends and implements modifications of existing payroll processes to ensure compliance with requirements. • 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 • Represent and lead payroll in meetings with internal teams and external vendors (e.g., responsible for direct interaction with committees, management, and internal/external auditors). • Acquire knowledge of team members’ payroll activities to provide back up support • Manage payroll projects/process improvement initiatives • Conduct secondary quality reviews of payroll transactions and cross train team members
Skills
Payroll, tax general ledger, Tax, Reporting
Top Skills Details
Payroll,tax general ledger
Additional Skills & Qualifications
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. The role will also research and monitor regulatory and legislative changes to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations. The role will assist the payroll team in performing daily payroll activities to ensure timely, accurate, and compliant payroll processing including quarterly and year-end tax activities.
Experience Level
Expert Level
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $57.00 - $57.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical, dental & vision• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)• Short and long-term disability• Health Spending Account (HSA)• Transportation benefits• Employee Assistance Program• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a hybrid position in Chicago,IL.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Feb 10, 2025.
About TEKsystems:
We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
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