Payroll Tax Lead: Multi-State Compliance & Filing

Payroll Dynamics, Inc.; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Payroll Dynamics, Inc. in New York is seeking an experienced Tax Manager to own the payroll service bureau tax function. You will lead day-to-day activities, oversee filings, payments, and reconciliations while guiding the tax team.

This leadership role requires hands-on expertise across federal, state, and local payroll taxes, strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to liaison with government agencies and clients to ensure timely, compliant tax operations.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of payroll tax, payroll accounting, or related experience.
• Strong knowledge of federal, state, and local payroll tax requirements.
• Hands-on experience with multi-state payroll taxation.
• Experience preparing and reconciling payroll tax filings and payments.
• Experience researching tax notices and working directly with government agencies.
• Strong analytical, reconciliation, investigative, and troubleshooting skills.
• High technical aptitude and comfort working across multiple software platforms and government agency websites.
• Strong attention to detail, organization, and follow-through.
• Ability to provide leadership and direction while remaining an active member of the day-to-day team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day payroll tax function while remaining actively involved in tax processing, research, reconciliation, and issue resolution.
• Prepare, review, and ensure timely completion of federal, state, and local payroll tax payments and filings across multiple jurisdictions.
• Reconcile company- and employee-level tax banking transactions and payroll tax liabilities and research and resolve variances.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for complex payroll tax issues and discrepancies.
• Research and respond to federal, state, and local agency notices and correspondence.
• Communicate directly with tax agencies to research and resolve account and filing issues.
• Provide direction, support, and knowledge-sharing within the tax team.
• Review tax related segments of new client implementations, including payroll history, tax setup, balancing, and transfer of tax liabilities.
• State and local tax registrations, TPA access and related account maintenance.
• Monitor changes in payroll tax laws, regulations, and agency requirements and ensure our processes remain compliant.
• Process and research client payroll bank returns.

Skills

Payroll tax

Payroll accounting

Tax research

Agency comms

Leadership

Analytical

Multi-state tax

Tax filings

Problem solving

Detail oriented

Job description

Payroll Dynamics, Inc. in New York is seeking an experienced Tax Manager to own the payroll service bureau tax function. You will lead day-to-day activities, oversee filings, payments, and reconciliations while guiding the tax team.

This leadership role requires hands-on expertise across federal, state, and local payroll taxes, strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to liaison with government agencies and clients to ensure timely, compliant tax operations.