Payroll Tax Analyst

Job Title: Payroll Tax Analyst

Location: Glendale, AZ 85301

Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Onsite

Payrate:$ 33.00 - 43.00/hr.

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a trusted engineering, construction and project management partner to industry and government. Differentiated by the quality of their people and their relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, they align their capabilities to their customers’ objectives to create a lasting positive impact. Since 1898, they helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• The Payroll Tax Analyst is responsible for all the state and federal tax deposits, filings and reporting for all client manual, non-manual, and expatriate employees.
• Will also perform similar functions for Canadian national employees and for expatriates working in Canada.
• Assignment calls for strong judgement and resourcefulness to resolve problems when solutions may not be obvious.
• The position will work closely with other payroll tax members, state tax offices, payroll, corporate tax, and human resources.

Responsibilities

• Uploading and daily processing of tax files from the various payrolls into tax software.
• Collection of payroll tax downloads, balancing of payroll tax data and processing deposits timely from multiple sources.
• Perform detailed analysis and quarterly/yearly reconciliation of payroll tax unit balances and payments made/due.
• Preparation of federal, state, and local income tax returns, state unemployment tax returns, and prior quarter/yearend adjustments.
• Prepare any amended federal, state, or local returns as necessary.
• Preparation and filing of all annual tax returns for both the US and Canada, including W2s, Form 940, federal and state electronic media, T4 slips and RL1 slips.
• Maintain all state unemployment rate information and communication of rate updates to our tax vendor and all payrolls as applicable.
• Understand and analyze state and federal tax withholding, deposit methods/due dates, and reporting requirements.
• Maintain company information and rates in Tax Gathering System (TGS) and MasterTax records.
• Prepare and submit daily journal entries to book tax payments utilizing Oracle Financials.
• Review and respond to general ledger balance inquiries for payroll tax accounts.
• Work with HR personnel to determine when a new unemployment tax account is needed.

Qualifications and Skills

Basic Qualifications

• BA/BS Degree in a related field or in lieu of a degree 3 years of related experience.
• Demonstrated ability to perform research, analysis, reconciliations, and critical thinking skills for offering solutions to unique tax scenarios.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SAP HCM and expatriate payrolls.
• Familiar with journal entry process in Oracle Financials.
• Knowledge of client’s general ledger and chart of accounts.

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.