HR Tax and Payroll Analyst

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The Senior Payroll and Tax Specialist is a payroll Subject matter expert and has primary responsibility for producing the semimonthly, monthly and equity payrolls, for ensuring compliance with Voya policy, state, and federal regulations, and for serving as the point of contact for audits. Responsible for working with the Outsourcing Service Provider on the implementation of tax updates, complex employee and executive payroll tax issues, compensation calculations as it relates to multistate tax allocations, imputed income, relocations, and yearend adjustments and deferred compensation calculations.

Responsible for projects associated with the maintenance of payroll tax records and the preparation of all or specifically assigned payroll tax returns and related reports.

• Process all semimonthly, monthly and equity payrolls accurately and timely in Workday. Develop and run reports to ensure accuracy of payroll data before and after payroll is completed. Upload, audit and correct payroll data from a variety of sources, including departments, vendors, and Compensation. Investigate and correct data as needed. Run the payroll complete process and other processes that require an advanced knowledge of Workday.
• Review and maintain employee tax withholding and jurisdiction records. Review new hire tax set up for accuracy. Review deduction and tax variance reports, highly compensated variance reports. Assists with semi-monthly and monthly payroll processing, processing requests for off-cycle paychecks, and processing HR and payroll transactions. Maintain SUI rates in Workday.
• Responsible for quarter end processing working with third party service provider to ensure accurate tax filing every quarter such as 941, 941C, W2, W2C, and including reconciliation, W2 transmittals, code application and policy development. Research and resolve any out of balance tax situations, work with third party provider to establish accounts with federal, state, and local jurisdictions as required, and update Workday for new registrations.
  
  Work with Payroll Accounting to initiate any new registrations. Ability to analyze agency notices and determine solution.
• Responsible for managing the payroll/tax year-end reporting of W2. Processes W-2 information and verifies year-to-date totals for salaries, income tax withheld, FICA and FICA Medicare wages and deductions, and tax-sheltered annuities.
• Interpret pay and data related to policies and ensure compliance with Voya policies, HR OPS policies, and federal and state regulatory requirements.
• Serve as subject matter expert and offer guidance and assistance to other staff, for example FLSA, wage and hour regulations, and federal/state regulations.
• Collaborate with multiple business teams within the organization like Compensation. Talent acquisition. And People systems.
• Set up and test payrolls in Workday. Work closely with People Systems team,…