Product Payroll & Tax Compliance Specialist

UKG; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 66,000 - 94,000; Full time

Job summary

UKG seeks a Product Pay & Tax Compliance Analyst to serve as the liaison to federal, state, provincial, and local tax agencies, ensuring changes and mandates are incorporated into UKG’s payroll products.

With 3+ years in tax compliance and strong research skills, you’ll research requirements, document changes, and communicate complex rules to internal teams, while maintaining relationships with tax authorities.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in tax compliance, payroll tax, tax research, or a related field.
• Experience researching, interpreting, and/or applying federal, state, provincial, or local tax regulations and requirements.
• Experience monitoring tax regulatory or legislative changes and assessing their impact on business processes, systems, or products.
• Experience documenting and communicating tax requirements to internal or external stakeholders.
• Professional experience working with tax-related processes, systems, or software.

Responsibilities

• Use general payroll tax knowledge for payroll tax updates and regulations within your assigned jurisdictions/zones
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with decision makers at tax agencies
• Actively participate in industry-related meetings and subcommittees on behalf of the organization
• Conduct comprehensive research with a minimal level of guidance and maintain knowledge of payroll tax agency compliance requirements
• Stay on top of the latest changes: Track daily updates on compliance mandates and identify any adjustments needed for withholding forms (W-4, TD1) year-end slips (W-2, T4, etc) reporting, tax calculations, requirements, and/or garnishment/wage attachment regulations
• Effectively communicate moderately complex compliance requirements to both internal and external stakeholders, answering questions and providing timely and accurate information
• Document payroll tax agency requirements clearly and concisely to be used as a reference across UKG
• Analyze and summarize identified changes, creating comprehensive documentation for our product and development teams to incorporate into UKG's payroll and tax products
• Collaborate with internal teams within UKG to provide direction based on expertise in UKG processes that ensure business practices compliant with agency requirements
• Negotiate outcomes with tax agencies that align with UKG's ideal state
• Respond promptly to JIRA, escalations, and research requests/tickets from internal teams regarding payroll tax requirements.

Skills

Tax compliance

Payroll tax

Tax research

Stakeholder communication

Regulatory changes tracking

Education

Bachelor's in accounting/finance

MasterTax experience

CPP/PCP certification

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Research databases

Job description

UKG seeks a Product Pay & Tax Compliance Analyst to serve as the liaison to federal, state, provincial, and local tax agencies, ensuring changes and mandates are incorporated into UKG’s payroll products.

With 3+ years in tax compliance and strong research skills, you’ll research requirements, document changes, and communicate complex rules to internal teams, while maintaining relationships with tax authorities.