Senior Payroll Tax Analyst - State & Federal Compliance

cw; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 72,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Cushman & Wakefield is seeking a Senior Payroll Tax Analyst to join our payroll team in the United States. The role reports to the Payroll Tax Manager and will manage federal, state, and local payroll tax issues across multiple jurisdictions.

The ideal candidate has 5–8 years of experience, strong ADP SmartCompliance knowledge, and proficiency with multi-state tax compliance, Excel, and ERP systems such as JD Edwards and Workday.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 5–8 years of professional experience.
• Experience with ADP SmartCompliance and payroll tax administration.
• Oracle JD Edwards (JDE) Payroll system preferred.
• Workday experience preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of payroll tax requirements across all states.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.

Responsibilities

• Act as tax liaison with the third-party vendor and all government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels to resolve M&A tax issues.
• Resolve state and local taxation cases resulting from incorrect tax profile setup/withholding.
• Assist the reconciliation and generation of W2s. Work with third party vendor to review and correct any issues.
• Ensure all amended tax returns are filed timely and accurately.
• Manage the tracking of all tax notices.
• Research, analyze and determine the root cause of tax notices from federal, state, and local tax agencies for prior years and/or legacy systems.
• Determine the need and prepare in-house tax amendments not supported by our current payroll tax filer.
• Support the filing of W-2C’s from legacy systems that were not previously submitted to SSA or tax agencies.
• Handle legal entity name changes with agencies, payroll systems and 3rd party payroll tax filer.
• Assist with creating online access to our state and unemployment withholding accounts.

Skills

Payroll tax knowledge

Advanced Excel

State tax compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

ADP SmartCompliance

Oracle JD Edwards (JDE) Payroll

Workday

Job description

Cushman & Wakefield is seeking a Senior Payroll Tax Analyst to join our payroll team in the United States. The role reports to the Payroll Tax Manager and will manage federal, state, and local payroll tax issues across multiple jurisdictions.

The ideal candidate has 5–8 years of experience, strong ADP SmartCompliance knowledge, and proficiency with multi-state tax compliance, Excel, and ERP systems such as JD Edwards and Workday.