Payroll Tax Corrections Specialist

Job Description

Job Description

Restaurant365 is transforming how restaurants run their businesses. Today, we help more than 50,000 restaurant locations manage their finances, operations, and people. As AI changes what's possible, we’re reimagining how restaurant back offices operate—automating routine work, helping teams make better decisions, and giving restaurant leaders more time to focus on growing their businesses.​ 

We're transforming how we work, too. AI is changing how we build products, solve problems, and deliver results for our customers. We're embracing new ways of working, moving faster, and creating opportunities for our people to make a greater impact.​ 

At Restaurant365, our culture is built on ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement. We believe in challenging ourselves, learning every day, and working together to achieve great results. We’re looking for people who are curious, take initiative, and want to grow while helping shape the future of an industry​ 

 

 

The Payroll Tax Corrections Specialist is responsible for researching, resolving, and correcting prior-period payroll tax discrepancies to ensure accurate tax filings, payments, and compliance with federal, state, and local regulations. This role requires a strong understanding of payroll tax processes, including identifying root causes, preparing necessary adjustments and amended returns, and resolving outstanding tax issues. Working closely with internal teams, external agencies, and other stakeholders, this individual plays a key role in maintaining tax accuracy, minimizing compliance risks, and ensuring timely resolution of payroll tax matters. 

How you'll add value:

• Research, reconcile, and prepare amended tax returns and payments for federal, state, local jurisdictions. 

• Create and reconcile journal entries for state and local tax payments. 

• Research payroll tax issues raised by internal stakeholders and customers and provide timely resolutions. 

• Complete tax rate protests, abatements, and account reconciliations and audits. 

• Identify and resolve root cause discrepancies and recommend process improvements to reduce tax issues and improve filing efficiencies. 

• Assist with special projects as needed including quarter-end and year-end processing. 

• Find opportunities to automate and improve how work gets done across your role with approved AI and other tools, choosing the right tool for each task, refining your prompts, and reviewing outputs for quality and time saved. 

What you'll need to be successful in this role:

• 2+ years of payroll tax filing experience. 

• Demonstrated working knowledge of U.S. local, state, and federal payroll tax laws, regulations, and compliance requirements to ensure product and services are compliant. 

• Working knowledge of approved AI tools and the ability to use them responsibly for payroll tax research, reconciliation, documentation, and process improvement while validating results for accuracy and protecting confidential information. 

• Experience using QuickBooks or a similar accounting platform. 

• Attention to detail and strong organizational and work prioritization skills. 

• Knowledge and experience in the SaaS / Software industry preferred, but not required. 

• Advanced demonstrated knowledge of Microsoft Excel and tax and payroll systems and how they operate. 

• Curiosity and eagerness to use AI in your daily work, backed by hands-on experience, a good sense of what generative AI can and can't do, and the judgment to verify its outputs. 

• Ability to work with company executives to understand the company’s business needs and strategy. 

• Excellent written/verbal communication skills. 

• Must be able to maintain confidentiality and use upmost discretion when accessing sensitive information. 

• Able to meet and exceed strict deadlines while handling high volume of clients. 

R365 Team Member Benefits & Compensation

• This position has a salary range of $33.65 to $39.33per hour. The above range represents the expected salary range for this position. The actual salary may vary based upon several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant skills/experience, time in the role, business line, and geographic location. Restaurant365 focuses on equitable pay for our team and aims for transparency with our pay practices.
• Comprehensive medical benefits, 100% paid for employee
• 401k + matching
• Equity Option Grant
• Unlimited PTO + Company holidays
• Wellness initiatives

This role is hybrid, balancing flexibility with the value of in-person collaboration. To support connection, partnership, and team effectiveness, employees are expected to work onsite each Tuesday and Wednesday.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.