Quality Assurance Payroll Tax Compliance Specialist

Key Responsibilities

• Perform and lead recurring payroll tax compliance validations and reconciliations to ensure required reports, exception data, and supporting records are complete and accurate.
• Investigate discrepancies, determine root causes, coordinate resolution, and confirm that corrections are accurately reflected in applicable systems and reports.
• Maintain clear, consistent, and auditable documentation of investigations, reconciliation evidence, findings, actions taken, and resolution.
• Ensure tax updates are validated and successfully uploaded to applicable systems in a timely manner.
• Systems Thinking - Understand how payroll tax requirements, data, systems, controls, vendors, and operational processes connect and use that context when investigating issues.

Key Requirements

• 5+ years of federal, state, and local payroll and payroll tax experience, including filing and reporting.
• Hands-on experience with payroll tax reconciliations, discrepancy investigation, root-cause analysis, and issue resolution.
• Experience with payroll tax software and systems, including tax scheduling and filing tools; MasterTax experience is preferred.
• Experience researching payroll tax requirements using tax authority sources and research tools.
• Experience supporting software enhancements or implementations, process improvements, data conversions, or user acceptance testing.