Coordinator, Payroll Tax Jobs

Job Purpose

Payroll Tax Coordinator is to be primarily responsible for ensuring the timely and accurate processing of weekly and bi-weekly payrolls as well as identifying tax related issues to ensure tax compliance for our associates. The coordinator also plays a key role in the continuous improvement of payroll processes while keeping pace with expected company growth.

Duties & Responsibilities

· Supporting processing high volume bi-weekly payrolls and adjustment runs. This includes execution of payrolls in accordance with established policies, procedures, and Federal, state, and local regulations in addition to Canada regulations.

· Primary responsibility for Support Center payroll

· Responsible for all payroll tax activities, including compliance with local, state and federal regulations and researching laws and regulations regarding taxes and payroll withholding procedures.

· Provides excellent customer service to associates across all functions of the company as well as partners with internal departments and external parties to fulfill payroll responsibilities.

· Complies with internal, external, and SOX-regulated controls.

· Provides support to management as needed on additional projects.

· Guides and trains team members.

· Identifies, participates, and implements continuous process improvement projects.

· Ensures all documentation associated with payroll processing is maintained, remains confidential and is properly shared.

· Payroll Tax processing /working with external payroll tax vendor (Ceridian).

· Multi State Tax Processing (Local Tax Processing preferred).

· W2/ T4 and Year End Processing.

Qualifications (Education & Experience)

• Good organization skills, as well as ability to multi-task, meet strict deadlines and deliver high quality work.
• Proven ability to handle confidential information with a high degree of professionalism.
• 5 years of Payroll tax processing experience
• Strong ability to analytically review, identify root causes and develop plan of resolution.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Accounting degree preferred and CPP preferred.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office required, specifically Excel and Word.
• Ability to lead team towards a goal, share knowledge and coordinate workflow.
• Report writing skills.
• Solid customer service skills and team player perspective are essential.
• Strong knowledge of payroll principles with experience in a high volume, complex payroll environment. Large associate base (+60,000) and a multi-state payroll base (45+ states) preferred.

Working Conditions

• Required travel – 0%

Physical Requirements

• While performing this job, the incumbent is regularly required to stand, sit, talk, hear & use hands, and fingers to operate keyboards.

Direct Reports

• This position will have approximately 0 direct report.