US Tax Partner - San Jose

Responsibilities

Team Introduction
The HROP Payroll Ops team strives to be the trusted partner to the employees as we respect and value their opinions and honoring our promise in handling sensitive data with integrity. We are committed to innovation in continuous systematization and process optimization to achieve our full potential and we endeavor to provide a positive end-to-end employee experience in salary and benefit processing.

We aspire to be the leading payroll ops team by providing excellent support to the employees in our industry in order for them to excel in their career. The ideal candidate is someone who is passionate, highly independent, self-driven with a growth mindset and is keen on accepting challenges yet remain humble with the aim of learning and growing with the team.

• Ensure the accurate and timely withholding, reporting, and filing of payroll taxes for U.S. operations, ensuring compliance with all applicable tax regulations, legislative changes, and agency requirements;
• Ensure all employment taxes (including social security) are correctly withheld, reported and paid across for all fringe benefits and compensation items;
• Oversee preparation, review and ensure timely delivery of W-2 / W-2
  
  Cs;
• Manage employment tax audits and manage responses to inquiries from taxing authorities;
• Manage and resolve any payroll tax notices received from various tax authorities;
• Support operation of US domestic business travel programme;
• Establish and maintain policies and controls to manage employment tax risks;
• Reconcile quarter and annual tax returns including 941s, 940s, state and local returns;
• Respond to employee payroll tax queries and provide a high level of customer service meeting SLAs;
• Monitor legislative changes in US employment tax laws and provide timely updates to the relevant business departments;
• Collaborate with payroll team on tax legislative changes and updates that impact daily operations and implementation projects;
• Collaborate with finance, legal, benefits and HR operations and respond to ad hoc tax information requests as required;
• Assist with testing tax-related system upgrades and automations;
• Develop and maintain documentation of payroll tax standard operating procedure (SOPs);
• Continually identify process improvements to increase efficiency and effectiveness of payroll tax touching processes.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or related field;
• 5+ years of payroll tax experience is advantageous;
• Working knowledge of ADP Global View and Smart Compliance;
• Proven expertise in payroll compliance and administration, with a strong background in tax consulting, preferably in-house;
• Proven experience with multi-state payroll compliance, in particular CA and NY;
• Experience in managing payroll tax audits and resolving complex tax issues;
• In-depth understanding of U.S. payroll regulations, federal and state tax law as well as payroll compliance requirements in North America.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building US employment tax calculator able to calculate gross to net.

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