Senior Payroll Tax Amendment Specialist
Justworks
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Florida • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
About the role
- Execute in-depth tax amendments and review adjustments to justify amendment filings and validate data sources
- Perform robust reconciliation for amended quarters
- Reconcile original tax filings, payments, and amendment reports within the tax management software against actual state submissions
- Accurately complete standardized templates within workbooks for capturing all necessary amendment-related information
- Collaborate closely with accounting, legal, and compliance teams
- Implement and maintain robust data validation checks
- Develop and refine reconciliation processes
- Regularly audit data sources and reconciliation workbooks
- Create and file amended returns as needed
- Execute the amendment filing lifecycle from end-to-end
- Develop and utilize a common error cheat sheet to efficiently triage and resolve reconciliation issues
- Manually retrieve and merge legacy multi-file exports
- Research, resolve, and follow up on amended tax return issues
- Apply embedded formulas to automatically calculate tax implications
Requirements
- Minimum of 2+ years in a payroll tax environment
- Demonstrated advanced proficiency in Excel and/or Google Sheets, utilizing VLOOKUP and other data manipulation functions for effective data management
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex processes clearly
- Process-driven and highly organized, with the ability to adapt in a fast-paced environment
- Technologically savvy; experience with utilizing multiple systems and software programs to manage work and drive execution
- Experience executing on multi-state tax accounts and tax amendments across multiple employers or for a single large employer
- Demonstrating expertise with quarterly and year-end filing cycles is a plus
- Tax compliance, licensing, auditing experience and familiarity with multi-state tax portals, a plus
Benefits
- Great benefits
- Wellness program offerings
- Company retreats
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
tax amendmentsdata validationreconciliation processesExcelGoogle SheetsVLOOKUPdata manipulationtax complianceauditingmulti-state tax accounts
Soft skills
written communicationverbal communicationprocess-drivenhighly organizedadaptabilitycollaborationproblem-solvingattention to detailtime managementcritical thinking