Sr. Payroll Tax Specialist
Remote
Sony Interactive Entertainment is looking for a Payroll Tax Specialist to support the payroll tax and reporting functions. You will join a team of professionals and contribute to making our payroll function efficient, accurate, and dedicated to employee experience.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Ensure compliance with payroll tax reporting and withholding in the US and Canada.
- Develop audits to find payroll tax irregularities.
- Test and validate payroll system updates for tax compliance.
- Prepare and reconcile estimated tax deposits.
- Perform timely state and local tax registrations as needed.
- Prepare year-end tax audits and reconciliations prior to W-2 processing.
- Process, prepare, and validate W2c forms and ensure timely reporting.
- Analyze, prepare, and enter wage adjustments when required, i.e., incorrect state or federal taxation, repayment of advances, etc.
- Respond to employee tax inquiries from Nexus case management system.
- Support financial and SOX audit requests.
- Provide reporting for corporate tax and accounting filing requirements.
- Support acquisition process and work with UI tax vendor to prepare UI reserve transfers and ensure filings are accurate.
- Prepare payroll funding and reconciliation.
- Create and maintain quarter end and year end checklists and documentation.
A successful candidate will demonstrate:
- Knowledge of payroll tax concepts with an understanding of payroll regulations and government reporting requirements in the US and Canada.
- Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills with a strong attention to detail.
- Comfortable dealing with ambiguous and complex work situations.
- Ability to work in an organized manner with the ability to manage time effectively to meet deadlines handling multiple tasks while maintaining proper prioritization.
- Knowledge of payroll tax implications of Section 125, 401k, RRSP, and other tax impacting benefit plans.
- Ability to proactively work with clients in the business to diagnose, understand and propose solutions for complex issues.
- Capability to work independently and manage workload with autonomy.
- Knowledge of Workday, SAP, ADP and Dayforce advantageous
- Ability to work as part of a hybrid working team in multiple work locations.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years combined payroll tax and reporting experience.
- Expert knowledge of reconciliation preparation.
- Knowledge of large HCM/Payroll SaaS systems.
- Prior experience with 3rd party tax preparer.
- CPP preferred.
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