Payroll Tax Manager (North America)

TD Bank • Tampa, ME

8h • $91,000 - $136,240

About The Position

The North America Payroll Tax Manager will oversee all aspects of payroll tax compliance for the U.S. This leader is responsible for ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of federal, state/provincial, and local tax filings while managing a team of 5 or more employees. This role acts as a primary liaison with external vendors (specifically ADP) and internal departments like HR, IT, Finance, and Legal to optimize tax processes and system integrations. The Group Manager II, HR Operations leads a group of operational functions and activities via Team Managers/Analysts within a unit and provides guidance, leadership, coaching and development to ensure operational results and professional/personal development objectives are achieved for the overall group.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree required
• 7+ years relevant experience required
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent ability to negotiate and influence, with the ability to exercise sound judgment in problem resolution and influencing decisions
• Proven experience in effective relationship management
• Must work well in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment with the ability to manage various tasks simultaneously and work with changing priorities
• People management experience required
• A broad knowledge of Human Resources policies and procedures
• Knowledge and experience with MS PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, MS Word, etc.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated planning and management skills
• Demonstrated project and process management skills
• Demonstrated ability to balance work load and align work to resources
• Ability to measure and analyze metrics required

Nice To Haves

• 5 year's Workday experience a must and ADP SmartCompliance experience highly preferred
• 5+ year's managing teams including remote workers
• Experience working for a large corporation with 5K+ employees
• Multi-corporation/multi-state payroll tax experience
• CPP or FPC certification required

Responsibilities

• Provides people management leadership by hiring the best talent, setting goals, developing staff, managing employee performance and compensation decisions, promoting teamwork and handling any/all disciplinary actions, as required
• Oversees a large team with functional diversity and complexity where activities involve multiple step transactions, multiple systems and jurisdictions, higher volumes and/or medium to high complexity
• Expert knowledge of the business and operational functions supported
• Leads teams with multiple points of internal and external contact (may include direct contact with Customers)
• May manage over a diverse geographic jurisdiction
• May provide National support to business partners
• Work focus time horizon is generally medium to long term with moderate to high focus on strategic planning
• Requires expert process management knowledge and the risk profile for team processes supported; advanced knowledge in identifying, tracking and resolving gaps
• Oversees management of team requiring workforce to decision on acceptable level of risk - Moderate to High risk potential (loss/reputational) for functional area
• May act as highest point of team escalation for resolution and provides direction to resolve issues or escalate
• Involves regular contact with cross-functional teams across TDBG or external contacts and/or customers
• Acts as key liaison with partners and external groups and provides subject matter expertise at the department level
• Acts as key escalation point for significant risk/exceptions
• Monitors service and control standards against overall business/department objectives
• Develops and maintains effective working relationships with internal and external partners for the purposes of delivering optimal customer service
• Coaches to ensure operational problems are handled appropriately, and participates in the negotiation and resolution of complex and/or escalated issues where necessary
• Contributes to the development of the business plan and operationalizes the plan and delivers on assigned service or functionality
• Ensures programs, policies and practices continue to meet business needs, comply with internal and external requirements, and align with business priorities
• Proactively identifies key business opportunities, researches and recommends enhancements/modifications, develops strategies to achieve recommendations and works closely with system support to execute and implement system upgrades/enhancements
• Provides expertise and coordinates implementation and testing of new processes, technologies or operating models in own area
• Meets department standards for productivity and efficiency and implements process improvement initiatives, executes on change, supporting adherence, tracking and realizing benefits
• Coordinates activities with partners in HR, Technology, Finance, Risk Management, etc.
• Ensures appropriate reporting and escalation of issues occurs based on risk profile
• Follows and ensures employees are knowledgeable of and comply with Bank and industry codes of conduct
• Coaches employees to deliver on the business service and operating model
• Maintains knowledge of end-to-end processes and internal/external partners and regulatory requirements
• Responsible for management of the overall team, providing both leadership and guidance
• Sets targets and objectives for the team, and delivers results
• Grows team expertise to align with business/enterprise demand and direction; assesses team skills and capabilities and continually looks for ways to provide and enhance the value delivered
• Leads a high-performing team; provides on-going feedback and performance reviews, coaches and develops employees and ensures performance management activities are undertaken and completed for all employees
• Leads the process of setting performance objectives for the team; tracks, monitors and effectively addresses and/or rewards performance in a timely manner
• Manages employees in compliance with all human resources policies, procedures and guidelines of conduct
• Shares knowledge, information, skills, and subject matter expertise among the team and ensures the timely communication of issues and encourages good working relationships with other functions and teams
• Supports an environment where the team freely escalates business challenges; facilitates change through positive reinforcement of milestones and successes
• Recruits for all hires to ensure a highly diverse, qualified workforce to achieve business objectives
• Establishes and fosters a cohesive team; promotes a fair and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce and encourages the team to achieve common goals and objectives
• Acts as a brand ambassador for the business area/function and the Bank, both internally and/or externally

Benefits

• Our Total Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial, physical and mental well-being goals.
• Total Rewards at TD includes base salary and variable compensation/incentive awards (e.g., eligibility for cash and/or equity incentive awards, generally through participation in an incentive plan) and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off (including Vacation PTO, Flex PTO, and Holiday PTO), banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level