Payroll Tax Analyst

TrueBlue•Tacoma, WA

6h•Remote

About The Position

TrueBlue, the people company, has an open Payroll Tax Analyst role. The Payroll Tax Analyst is responsible for analyzing and supporting all payroll tax activities, including compliance with local, state, and federal regulations, audits, data validation, interpretation of specifications, and filing of payroll tax returns. This position partners with the Payroll Tax Supervisor and Manager to plan staff activities and to provide training and development of team members. This role is also responsible for reconciliation and filing of quarterly/annual returns including W2, W2c, 941/940 transmission to the appropriate agencies for a multiple-unit organization. Provides support for, and helps resolve new registrations, notices, ensuring payroll tax accuracy in multiple payroll systems and tax software applications.

Requirements

Associate’s degree in finance and/or related field; or 2-4 years high-volume payroll tax experience dealing with large volumes of data; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Intermediate Microsoft Excel and strong math skills.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Related experience in a multi-unit, multi-state, multi-system organization.
Ability to participate in multiple complex projects independently and meet strict deadlines under pressure.
Innovation/Renovation-willingness to change and the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities and assignments.
Ability to work with minimal supervision. Ability to validate and audit your own work, as well as others.
Positive energy, optimistic, growth mindset, enjoys responsibility, goes above and beyond in helping others learn, and believes abilities can be developed. Fosters team unity.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of international taxes, including Canada and Puerto Rico a plus.
Proven analytical, planning, problem solving and influencing skills.
Strong process enhancement, training, reconciling, and documentation experience.
Prefer experience with MasterTax.
Prefer SQL Query knowledge and experience with report creation tools.

Responsibilities

Responds to questions and special requests from employees and regulatory agencies.
Research, document and test new payroll tax laws and regulations and provide management with compliance recommendations.
Regularly analyze large datasets to reconcile accounts, identify variances, and resolve underlying issues through root-cause research.
Research, prepare and assign tax payments, tax estimates, and journal entries for the team to process.
Ensure accurate and timely filing of federal tax payments, including estimated payments to the IRS and other state jurisdictions.
Supports all state’s tax payments and returns, quarterly completion of 941 forms and annual 940 reconciliation and filings, and monitors federal payments weekly.
Partner with the Payroll Tax Supervisor and/or Manager and staff to improve, streamline, and document payroll tax processes.
Maintenance of rates, frequencies and other settings in systems, which include testing of taxes, W2’s, and other third-party software.
Support timely transmission of W2, W2c, Wage Uploads, and Amendments to appropriate agencies.
Prepare and file weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual local, state withholding, paid family leave, combined returns, including unemployment filings.
Weekly/Quarterly audits to ensure accuracy of multiple payroll systems.
Utilize analytical skills to document and resolve outstanding issues, prepare reports, reconciliations and forms necessary for management and external agencies, and maintain payroll tax team’s compliance with SOX audits and controls.
Shares in-depth knowledge of U.S. government regulations and payroll tax requirements to test, train, and support legislative changes.
Investigate and resolve tax notices in a timely manner to minimize the risk of potential interest and penalties.