Senior Multi-State Payroll Lead

Addison Group; Tampa (FL); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Addison Group in Tampa, FL is seeking a payroll professional to manage high-volume payroll across multiple states, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and regulatory compliance. The role requires navigating multi-state tax rules, researching payroll laws, and leveraging advanced Excel for reporting, reconciliations, and audits as a senior resource within the payroll team.

This is a hybrid position with three in-office days per week, offering collaboration with payroll leadership on escalations and

Qualifications

• 3+ years of corporate payroll experience.
• Hands-on multi-state payroll taxes and laws.
• Experience processing payroll for 1,000+ employees.
• Strong understanding of federal and state payroll tax compliance.
• Advanced Excel skills for reporting, pivots, lookups, and reconciliations.
• Ability to research and interpret state payroll laws and regulations.
• Comfortable handling complex payroll issues independently.

Responsibilities

• Process and support high-volume payroll for a large, multi-state employee population.
• Ensure payroll is accurate, timely, and compliant with federal, state, and local requirements.
• Research and resolve multi-state payroll tax and compliance issues.
• Stay current on changes to state payroll laws, tax regulations, and withholding requirements.
• Troubleshoot complex payroll discrepancies and work with internal teams to resolve issues.
• Manage and review payroll tax information across multiple jurisdictions and tax IDs.
• Use advanced Excel for payroll reporting, reconciliations, audits, and analysis.
• Serve as a senior resource to the payroll team on complex payroll matters.
• Identify opportunities to improve payroll processes, accuracy, and compliance.
• Work closely with payroll leadership on escalations and special projects.

Skills

Payroll compliance

Payroll taxes

Multi-state payroll

Advanced Excel

Independent worker

Job description

Addison Group in Tampa, FL is seeking a payroll professional to manage high-volume payroll across multiple states, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and regulatory compliance. The role requires navigating multi-state tax rules, researching payroll laws, and leveraging advanced Excel for reporting, reconciliations, and audits as a senior resource within the payroll team.

This is a hybrid position with three in-office days per week, offering collaboration with payroll leadership on escalations and