Senior Manager, Payroll Tax

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Integrated Services Center
Advertised Compensation:$90,800.00to $

The Senior Manager, Payroll Tax & Garnishments oversees payroll tax operations for both U.S. and Canadian entities, ensuring accurate system maintenance and timely responses to tax‑related inquiries. This role also ensures garnishment processing is consistently compliant with federal and state regulations, mitigating the risk of penalties or default judgments.

• Manages the outsourced ADP payroll tax function and garnishments to ensure compliance; supports with investigating tax issues
• Assists ADP tax team to complete year-end processes within ADP system; complete YE processes and adjustments in People Soft
• Manages quarter-end processes and quarterly tax updates from People Soft; runs test payroll runs in People Soft to ensure quarterly tax updates are completed successfully, coordinating with IT to move updates to production
• Participates in systems upgrades and testing for tax and garnishment updates, serving as the liaison between the company and the third-party garnishment processor, and resolving and payroll issues; participates in system upgrade design and process testing and troubleshoots various HRMS & Payroll issues within People Soft HRMS
• Supports weekly tax transmissions to a third-party tax processing service and ensures timely and accurate tax funding on a weekly basis
• Performs third-party sick pay adjustments and TEFRA adjustments
• Assists with HR Help Desk inquiries such as job verifications and unemployment claims; works with ADP and Equifax service team as necessary
• Gathers data for internal and external audits related to payroll tax; responds to tax related inquiries from agencies and team members
• Evaluates garnishment processes to identify and correct inefficiencies; manage implementation of processes improvements.
• Coordinates the reconciliation of garnishment disbursement files and manages funding requests in collaboration with Treasury.
• Works with the Legal department to resolve garnishment legal issues including default judgments; works with Payroll HRMS to ensure that reinstatements are processed timely and correctly for union and non-union associates
• Maintains all files and correspondence with third-party vendor and respective law offices, tax jurisdictions, IRS, bankruptcy courts, etc.

The Senior Manager, Payroll Tax & Garnishments reports to the Director of Payroll

• Education and Experience:
  
  The combination of education and professional experience must exceed 6 years:
  • In a leadership role:
    Requires 2 years of experience supervising a team of payroll professionals engaged in executing payroll tax and garnishment programs
  • In a technical role:
    Requires 6-8 years of payroll experience engaged in delivering payroll tax and garnishment programs
    • A bachelor’s degree in a program related to the functional area can count for 3 of the 6-year requirement
    • An MBA or a master’s level degree in a program related to the functional area can count for an additional 2 years of 6-year requirement
  • In the industry: 3-5 years of Hospitality, F&B and/or Retail experience
  • Must have at least 4 years of experience processing payroll in a high-volume environment
• Specialized Training:
  • Training that leads to very strong knowledge of state, federal, and provincial payroll tax and garnishment laws, as well as wage and hour regulations
• Requires People Soft HRMS experience including Query, implementation or upgrade experience a plus
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Requires the ability to maintain confidential data and ensure that correspondence with sensitive data is done in a manner that adheres to compliant methodology
• Exceptional…