Senior Manager, Payroll Tax
Avolta
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Bethesda • Maryland • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $90,800 - $110,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Oversees payroll tax operations for both U.S. and Canadian entities, ensuring accurate system maintenance and timely responses to tax-related inquiries
- Ensures garnishment processing is consistently compliant with federal and state regulations, mitigating the risk of penalties or default judgments
- Manages the outsourced ADP payroll tax function and garnishments to ensure compliance; supports with investigating tax issues
- Assists ADP tax team to complete year-end processes within ADP system; complete YE processes and adjustments in PeopleSoft
- Manages quarter-end processes and quarterly tax updates from PeopleSoft; runs test payroll runs in PeopleSoft to ensure quarterly tax updates are completed successfully, coordinating with IT to move updates to production
- Participates in systems upgrades and testing for tax and garnishment updates, serving as the liaison between the company and the third-party garnishment processor, and resolving and payroll issues; participates in system upgrade design and process testing and troubleshoots various HRMS & Payroll issues within PeopleSoft HRMS
- Supports weekly tax transmissions to a third-party tax processing service and ensures timely and accurate tax funding on a weekly basis
- Performs third-party sick pay adjustments and TEFRA adjustments
- Assists with HR Help Desk inquiries such as job verifications and unemployment claims; works with ADP and Equifax service team as necessary
- Gathers data for internal and external audits related to payroll tax; responds to tax related inquiries from agencies and team members
- Evaluates garnishment processes to identify and correct inefficiencies; manage implementation of processes improvements.
- Coordinates the reconciliation of garnishment disbursement files and manages funding requests in collaboration with Treasury.
- Works with the Legal department to resolve garnishment legal issues including default judgments; works with Payroll HRMS to ensure that reinstatements are processed timely and correctly for union and non-union associates
- Maintains all files and correspondence with third-party vendor and respective law offices, tax jurisdictions, IRS, bankruptcy courts, etc.
Requirements
- The combination of education and professional experience must exceed 6 years
- Requires 2 years of experience supervising a team of payroll professionals engaged in executing payroll tax and garnishment programs
- Requires 6-8 years of payroll experience engaged in delivering payroll tax and garnishment programs
- A bachelor’s degree in a program related to the functional area can count for 3 of the 6-year requirement
- An MBA or a master’s level degree in a program related to the functional area can count for an additional 2 years of 6-year requirement
- 3-5 years of Hospitality, F&B and/or Retail experience
- Must have at least 4 years of experience processing payroll in a high-volume environment
- Requires PeopleSoft HRMS experience including Query, implementation or upgrade experience a plus
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office
- Requires the ability to maintain confidential data and ensure that correspondence with sensitive data is done in a manner that adheres to compliant methodology
- Exceptional customer service skills and a keen eye for detail
- Possesses strong business acumen and a forward-thinking approach to payroll management, with the ability to evaluate long-term impacts and drive alignment with organizational goals.
- Demonstrated history of understanding the needs of the business, stakeholders, the employee population and individual circumstances
- Demonstrated history of maintaining positive work environments through coaching, developing, and leading teams to achieve common goals.
Benefits
- Health, dental and vision insurance
- Generous paid time off (vacation, flex or sick)
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match
- Company paid life insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee assistance program
- Training and exciting career growth opportunities
- Referral program – refer a friend and earn a bonus
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
payroll tax operationsgarnishment processingyear-end processesquarter-end processestax transmissionssick pay adjustmentsTEFRA adjustmentsdata gathering for auditsprocess improvementsreconciliation of disbursement files
Soft skills
customer service skillsattention to detailbusiness acumenforward-thinkingstakeholder understandingteam coachingteam developmentleadershipproblem-solvingcommunication