US Payroll Tax Senior Specialist

US Payroll Tax Senior Specialist

Reporting to the US HR Shared Services Manager, the US Payroll Tax Senior Specialist is responsible for ensuring compliance for federal, state, and local payroll taxes and supporting various payroll functions.

Key responsibilities include :

• Leading US payroll tax registrations with federal, state, and local agencies by coordinating with payroll provider, agencies, and internal departments to ensure compliance.
• Managing compliance issues / changes related to state tax amounts, paid leave requirements from each state / jurisdiction.
• Integration management including the review of existing payroll interfaces to other platforms and vendors, assessing for areas of improvement and issue escalation.
• Ensuring reporting and filing is completed correctly by payroll vendor with each agency.
• Providing payroll reports internally as needed for finance, accounting, risk, and HR including workers compensation reporting and any other required reports.
• Conducting internal audits to ensure full compliance with all regulations and payments for all jurisdictions.
• Maintaining system accuracy for payroll system with HRIS system ensuring full reconciliation and data accuracy.
• Supporting vendor analysis for payroll systems and collecting required data from internal sources to provide potential vendors to finalize quotes and proposals.
• Supporting payroll system implementation activities, leading data collection, analysis, and testing.
• Payroll processing support for weekly and semi-monthly payrolls.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications include :

We provide compensation and benefits programs intended to attract, motivate, reward, and retain an incredibly talented, globally diverse workforce at all levels within our organization. Our compensation programs are informed by market data and business needs, and we are committed to providing equitable and competitive compensation. We are committed to providing our team with quality and competitive benefit programs, including health and well-being resources, family-centric policies, and an agile workplace program, where not precluded by collective bargaining agreements or national statutory plans. Plans are benchmarked for competitiveness and value.

We provide formal development opportunities at all levels and stages of employee careers. These opportunities are delivered in a variety of formats to make our portfolio of solutions agile, sustainable, and scalable to support our employees in developing the skills needed to succeed.

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We also believe employee health and safety is everyones responsibility. We encourage safety learning and collaboration to help employees understand and follow applicable safety policies, standards, and procedures and identify opportunities to minimize or eliminate risk. Work is expected to be conducted in a manner that stresses the importance of preventing incidents and illnesses, including attending all required safety meetings and trainings. It is expected that all incidents, near misses, and unsafe conditions are immediately reported to the direct manager, Human Resources, or Safety Representative.

PHINIA is an equal employment opportunity employer such that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

PHINIA does provide sponsorship for employment visa status based on business need. However, for this role, applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis, in the country where the position is currently based.

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