Tax Accountant

Tax Accountant II

A tax accountant II delivers business value by ensuring timely, accurate and compliant tax remittances and filings. Professional expertise includes making recommendations based on payroll tax expertise and industry trends, identifying, troubleshooting, and implementing viable solutions to issues within the payroll tax processes, recommending and applying policy adjustments on key payroll tax processes, recognizing key versus non-key controls and how tasks ladder to those controls, driving accountability of controls, prioritizing and planning, driving implementation of broader payroll tax process improvements, assessing work collaboratively to align on most important tax work, proactively tracking and identifying trends through data and metrics, providing consultation, developing and proposing updates to existing or new processes as a result of business or legislative changes, influencing stakeholders to ensure compliance, with support, advising on payroll tax matters, recommending best practices on payroll tax processes, with support, executing tax learning opportunities for non-payroll tax partners.

Daily responsibilities include balancing daily payments, processing and reconciling stock, responding to inquiries and cases as needed, inbox management, audit work, analyzing large amounts of data, updating tax authorities for record.

Technology requirements include knowledge in tax compliance software and supporting database tools (SAP, SuccessFactors, ADP), proficiency in Microsoft Office (e.g., Excel, Word, etc), and Excel proficiency, intermediate (mostly reading data).

Degree or certifications required: None required, relevant certificates are nice to have. Years experience: 1 year of experience minimum. Required background/skills include the ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing, strong analytical and technical skills with strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines, knowledge in tax compliance software and supporting database tools, proficiency in Microsoft Office (e.g., Excel, Word, etc), ability to identify and collaborate on process efficiencies, payroll tax experience, including payment, reconciling, and filing, proven analytical and problem-solving skills, customer service, multi-state and provincial tax reporting and filing, experience in federal, state, local and provincial labor law, willingness to learn.