Payroll and Expense Specialist
Cellebrite
ERP
Senior Payroll Tax Specialist – Contract
Broadridge
contract
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Newark • New Jersey, New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $43 - $53 per hour
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Manage audits and inquiries from federal, state, and local tax authorities
- Act as a liaison with government agencies regarding payroll tax matters
- Register for new state and local tax jurisdictions and close out inactive jurisdictions when required
- Reconcile payroll tax accounts and promptly resolve discrepancies and inquiries
- Review, analyze, and respond to agency tax notices in a timely and accurate manner
- Conduct internal payroll tax audits, including validation of account numbers, SUI rates, and exposure by jurisdiction
- Support special projects, including state and local audits, system initiatives, and compliance reviews
- Monitor changes in payroll tax regulations across jurisdictions to ensure ongoing compliance
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years of experience in payroll tax and compliance, preferably within financial services or a similarly regulated industry
- Strong knowledge of federal, state, and local payroll tax regulations, multi-state payroll, and jurisdictional compliance
- Proven experience with tax account reconciliations and issue resolution
- Demonstrated ability to manage outside state and local audits
- Proficiency with ADP SmartCompliance payroll/compliance tools preferred
- Intermediate Excel skills (pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, and reconciliations)
- Excellent analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills with keen attention to detail
- Strong interpersonal and written/verbal communication skills; ability to interact effectively with internal teams, external vendors, and government agencies
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, meet strict deadlines, and work independently with minimal supervision
- Client-facing experience preferred
Benefits
- All Colorado employees receive paid sick leave in compliance with the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act and other legally required benefits, as applicable.
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Hard skills
payroll taxcompliancetax account reconciliationissue resolutionmulti-state payrolljurisdictional complianceanalytical skillsorganizational skillsproblem-solving skillsExcel
Soft skills
interpersonal skillswritten communicationverbal communicationattention to detailability to manage multiple prioritiesability to meet deadlinesindependent work