Payroll Tax Specialist – Contractor
DOOR
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Set up, review, and maintain payroll tax accounts, tax codes, and filings across federal, state, and local jurisdictions
- Support payroll tax implications related to a company name change, including registrations, updates, and compliance coordination
- Lead and support workers’ compensation setup, including class codes, jurisdiction mapping, and carrier coordination
- Assist with workers’ comp audits, premium reconciliations, and adjustments
- Ensure payroll tax compliance and accuracy, including filings, notices, and issue resolution
- Partner closely during the Rippling payroll and HRIS implementation, including system configuration, validation, and testing
- Provide guidance on payroll-related processes tied to employee compensation accuracy (as needed)
- Collaborate cross-functionally with People Ops, Finance, and external vendors to ensure clean, compliant payroll operations
- Troubleshoot and resolve payroll tax or workers’ comp discrepancies as they arise
Requirements
- Proven experience specifically with Payroll Tax
- Strong, hands-on experience with: Federal, state, and local payroll tax compliance
- Workers’ compensation setup, audits, and premium reconciliations
- Experience working with multiple payroll providers
- Prior experience supporting HRIS systems
- Experience supporting company changes from a tax and payroll perspective (e.g., name changes, entity updates)
- Highly detail-oriented with strong reconciliation and audit skills
- Comfortable working in a contractor/consultant capacity with fluctuating weekly hours
- Proactive, responsive, and able to work independently in a remote environment
Benefits
- Collaborating in a fast-paced environment where you can apply what you have learned in new challenges
- Having teammates all over the world in the US, Argentina, Spain and Romania
- Being encouraged to invent and innovate within your role and working in a company where calculated risk-taking is highly encouraged and thinking outside the box is a must
- DOOR understands that job requirements sometimes exclude people who identify with historically marginalized groups from applying to jobs for which they are qualified
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
payroll tax complianceworkers' compensation setuppremium reconciliationsauditsHRIS systemstax codesfilingsissue resolutionsystem configurationvalidation
Soft skills
detail-orientedreconciliation skillsaudit skillsproactiveresponsiveindependent workcollaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationadaptability