Tax Accountant 1
About The Position
Public Partnerships LLC supports individuals with disabilities or chronic illnesses and aging adults, to remain in their homes and communities and “self” direct their own long-term home care. Our role as the nation’s largest and most experienced Financial Management Service provider is to assist those eligible Medicaid recipients to choose and pay for their own support workers and services within their state-approved personalized budget. We are appointed by states and managed healthcare organizations to better serve more of their residents and members requiring long-term care and ensure the efficient use of taxpayer funded services. Our culture attracts and rewards people who are results-oriented and strive to exceed customer expectations. We desire motivated candidates who are excited to join our fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment, and who want to make a difference in helping transform the lives of the consumers we serve. The Tax Accountant I is responsible for administering multi-state payroll tax compliance, ensuring accurate tax withholdings, filings, deposits, and reporting in accordance with federal, state, and local regulations. This role performs detailed tax reconciliations, manages tax notices and employee tax inquiries, prepares year-end reporting, and collaborates with internal teams and tax agencies to resolve discrepancies and maintain compliance. The position requires strong analytical, organizational, and project management skills to support process improvements, participate in audits and testing activities, and ensure timely resolution of tax-related issues. Additionally, the Tax Accountant I identifies opportunities to enhance operational efficiency, improve accuracy, and reduce tax notices through proactive research, problem-solving, and continuous process improvement.
Requirements
- Excellent organizational, interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Effective ability to prioritize and manage multiple activity streams.
- Excellent accuracy and attention to detail.
- Resourceful.
- Ability to change priorities as needed.
- Ability to research tax regulations and adapt PPL processes to changing regulations.
- Ability to work in a team situation and autonomously with minimal supervision.
- Detailed and process improvement oriented.
- Experience in project management skills.
- Working knowledge of accounting principles.
- Excellent PC spreadsheet and database skills.
- Ability to reconcile tax filings.
- Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent work experience required.
- 1+ years of progressive experience with automated financial operations center projects.
- 1+ years prior tax, and financial administration experience.
Responsibilities
- Remains current on all applicable tax withholding laws, regulations, and requirements for Local, State, and Federal.
- Coordinates and administers multi-state payroll tax compliance.
- Reviews regular payroll tax filings to IRS and state agencies, monthly, quarterly, and annually.
- Understands W-2 requirements, including box 12 reporting and FICA Exemptions.
- Calculates, documents, and validates tax files, remittances, and ensures accurate settlement of daily tax deposits.
- Maintains and executes work plans to produce accurate, timely year-end information through data scrubbing.
- Manages the tax notice response process.
- Prepares correspondence to address tax notices and other communications received from clients and tax agencies to resolve outstanding issues.
- Works with finance staff on bank reconciliations to solve discrepancies and execute a solution.
- Responsible for account balancing for SUI, FUTA, FICA, and SIT.
- Applies demonstrated project management skills to ensure project deliverables and expectations are met daily.
- Performs special projects that are designed to explore ways to improve accuracy, efficiency, and the timeliness of timesheet data submission.
- Improves processes that will either eliminate or reduce tax notices.
- Performs User Acceptance Testing when a need is identified.
- Performs support ticket transaction resolution tasks.
- Responds to incoming departmental support tickets to solve outstanding issues within contract requirements.
- Handles employee tax-related inquiries.
- Establishes and maintains excellent communication with tax agency staff at local, state, and federal levels.
- Participates in audits as needed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
