Payroll Tax Director
The Payroll Tax Director is responsible for ensuring accurate and timely payroll tax compliance across multiple jurisdictions. This role requires a highly analytical, detail-oriented professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and demonstrates exceptional problem-solving skills.
The ideal candidate will manage tax filings, reconcile payroll data, and provide expert guidance to clients and internal teams while maintaining strong relationships with tax agencies.
This is a full-time, hybrid position based at one of our regional offices in Phoenix, AZ; Rockwall, TX; or St. Petersburg, FL.
Key responsibilities include supporting junior staff and offshore tax team members with payroll tax processes, preparing, balancing, and filing quarterly Federal, State, and Local payroll tax returns across all jurisdictions, submitting amended reports and filings as required, communicating frequently with clients and tax agencies to resolve tax notices and inquiries, reconciling payroll tax data between Payroll System and Tax Software to ensure accuracy, verifying client billing for payroll taxes and resolving discrepancies, coordinating year-end activities, including W-2 distribution and annual reconciliations, filing annual reconciliations and W-2s with appropriate tax agencies, providing outstanding tax service support by researching and responding to client inquiries, offering payroll tax guidance to clients and internal stakeholders, reviewing and maintaining tax rate changes in Payroll and Tax Systems, validating tax setup information in Payroll and Tax Systems for accuracy, ensuring all necessary Power of Attorney documents are signed and filed for clients, applying for new tax accounts as needed, and performing other duties aligned with the objectives of the role and organizational goals.
Required qualifications include a Bachelor's Degree in a related field, or equivalent years of experience, 5+ years of payroll experience, strong knowledge of payroll tax processing rules and regulations, ability to manage multiple priorities and meet strict deadlines, excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, strong customer service orientation and problem-solving skills, and comfortable interacting with tax agencies and clients.
Preferred qualifications include Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) designation, experience with MasterTax software, familiarity with Prism, MasterTax, and iSolved products, advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables.
Skills and competencies include being highly analytical with exceptional attention to detail, strong organizational and time management skills, ability to adapt quickly to changing business needs, and being a collaborative team player with a proactive approach.