Payroll Tax Engineer

Puzzle 🧩🚀

Payroll Tax Engineer at PuzzleHR conducting compliance audits and managing tax configurations and registrations. Focused on accuracy across systems, filings, and year-end documents.

Posted 6/5/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Conduct detailed reviews of employee-level tax data, ensuring proper jurisdiction setup.
Manage tax registrations and proactively identify tax configuration issues.
Perform audits of employee tax configurations, including address-based jurisdiction assignments and tax rate validations.
Review new hire records and address changes to ensure correct tax codes are applied.
Track registration statuses and prevent disruptions to vendor filings.
Partner with Payroll Engineers to ensure client payrolls are processed using accurate tax data.
Support year-end W-2 balancing and reconciliation.

Requirements

What you’ll need

3 or more years of experience in payroll tax, compliance, or payroll system configuration preferred.
Deep understanding of U.S. payroll tax structures at federal, state, and local levels.
Familiarity with tax registration processes and agency communications.
Strong Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, conditional formatting, etc.).
Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy.
Clear written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to manage multiple clients and competing deadlines.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equal opportunity employer with no discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or any other protected status under applicable law.
Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this role.

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Hard Skills & Tools

payroll taxcompliancepayroll system configurationU.S. payroll tax structurestax registration processesExcelpivot tableslookupsconditional formatting

Soft Skills

attention to detailaccuracywritten communicationverbal communicationtime management