Senior Specialist, Payroll Tax & M&A Integration
About The Position
The Tax Implementation Specialist, Payroll M&A Integration, is responsible for leading payroll tax-related activities associated with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and business integrations. This role serves as the payroll tax subject matter expert throughout the M&A lifecycle, ensuring tax compliance, regulatory readiness, employee tax setup accuracy, and successful integration into payroll operations. This role requires deep knowledge of U.S. and global payroll tax regulations, strong project management skills, and the ability to navigate complex tax environments during organizational change.
Requirements
- 5+ years of payroll tax experience.
- Strong expertise in U.S. Federal tax regulations, state withholding requirements, state unemployment insurance, local taxation, wage reporting requirements.
- Experience with payroll systems such as ADP, Workday Payroll.
- Strong analytical and reconciliation skills.
- Ability to manage multiple implementation projects simultaneously.
- Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, or divestitures.
- Experience with multi-national payroll tax compliance.
- Experience working with payroll tax vendors and outsourced payroll providers.
- Knowledge of tax filing and wage reporting processes across multiple jurisdictions.
Responsibilities
- Assess payroll tax profiles, registrations, and compliance status of acquired entities.
- Review existing payroll tax processes, controls, filing practices, and vendor relationships.
- Identify tax risks, liabilities, compliance exposures, and remediation requirements.
- Support integration planning by providing payroll tax impact assessments.
- Coordinate establishment of federal, state, provincial, and local tax registrations.
- Ensure tax IDs, withholding accounts, unemployment accounts, and local registrations are established accurately.
- Partner with Corporate Tax and Legal teams to address jurisdictional requirements.
- Manage tax account transitions during mergers, consolidations, and divestitures.
- Validate employee tax setup and election data conversions.
- Support payroll vendor implementations and integrations.
- Coordinate testing of tax calculations, filings, deposits, and reporting.
- Maintain audit-ready documentation for all implementation activities.
- Partner with Payroll Operations, Corporate Tax, Payroll vendors, & M&A COE team on implementation related activities.
- Serve as the payroll tax workstream lead within integration governance meetings.
- Provide status updates, risk assessments, and recommendations to leadership.
- Monitor payroll tax operations following implementation.
- Transition ongoing tax activities to payroll operations teams.
- Capture lessons learned and update implementation playbooks.
Benefits
- insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
- flexible spending account and health savings account
- paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave)
- 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time
- 25 days of vacation time
- 5 personal days
- 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays
- 401k with a best-in-class company match
- deferred compensation for eligible roles
- fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities
- eligibility for tuition reimbursement
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
