Payroll Tax Analyst

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Payroll Tax Analyst
The candidate will partner with a cross-functional team of Payroll, HR, Finance and Corporate Tax to maintain compliance and improve the process with all federal, state and local tax laws from a payroll tax perspective. Manage (CTS) external service provider to ensure accurate preparation, review and filing of payroll and related tax returns including bi-weekly, semi-monthly, monthly, quarterly and annual tax payments, estimates, extensions and amended return filings. Provide operational support to both the payroll team and CTS (Ceridian Tax Service) resolving and researching tax issues, while overseeing and implementing new tax locations and agencies. Oversee US federal, state, and local tax process on a bi-weekly, semi-monthly, monthly, quarterly, annual, or other required basis including 941s, 940s, state and local income tax, unemployment and W-2s. Review and maintain compliance with federal, state, and local tax regulations. Perform internal payroll tax audits to ensure correct work and live tax setups. Perform periodic audits on system configuration, system reporting and CTS output. Provide the research, analysis and necessary reconciliation to respond to and resolve agency related payroll tax amendments and inquiries. Manage payroll tax setup (UKG), ensuring the payroll system (UKG) is up to date with current technical and legislative requirements. Register new states and local tax (State & Local) jurisdictions. Generate General Ledger entries transmitted to accounting for tax related entries. Ensures that all GL payroll tax accounts are balanced. Point of contact for Finance and Corporate Tax. Partner with Ceridian Tax Service on tax and wage submissions, reporting, balancing and implementation of new tax authorities. Interact with tax agencies, coordinates access to state agency websites. Access unemployment percentage rates for payroll processing. Partner with CTS for year-end reporting to tax agencies. W-2 balancing and submission. W2c's and tax adjustments. Collaborate with Corporate Tax on Partner K-1 reporting. Work closely to ensure Partner transition from K-1 status to W-2 status. Assist with the completion and understanding of tax forms required. Must have a Degree in Accounting, Finance or similar field preferred (years of experience will be considered in lieu of degree). Should have 2+ years payroll tax experience in a large multi-state employer required. Should preferably have 1-3 years working with Ceridian Tax Service. Strong general knowledge of U.S. payroll processing and U.S. tax compliance rules and regulations is required.

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