US Payroll Tax Specialist - HROP - San Jose
Listed on 2026-03-04
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Finance & Banking
Tax Accountant -
Accounting
Tax Accountant
Responsibilities
Team Introduction
The HROP Payroll Ops team strives to be the trusted partner to the employees as we respect and value their opinions and honoring our promise in handling sensitive data with integrity. We are committed to innovation in continuous systematization and process optimization to achieve our full potential and we endeavor to provide a positive end-to-end employee experience in salary and benefit processing.
We aspire to be the leading payroll ops team by providing excellent support to the employees in our industry in order for them to excel in their career. The ideal candidate is someone who is passionate, highly independent, self-driven with a growth mindset and is keen on accepting challenges yet remain humble with the aim of learning and growing with the team.
Responsibilities- Ensure the accurate and timely withholding, reporting, and filing of payroll taxes for U.S. operations, ensuring compliance with all applicable tax regulations, legislative changes, and agency requirements
Reconcile wages and withholding for monthly, quarterly, and annual withholding and unemployment tax returns. - Prepare, review and ensure timely delivery of W-2 / W-2
Cs. - Enter any tax adjustments in ADP Global View as required throughout the year.
- Reconcile quarter and annual tax returns including 941s, 940s, state and local returns.
- Manage and resolve any payroll tax notices received from various tax authorities.
- Respond to employee payroll tax queries and provide a high level of customer service meeting SLAs.
- Research and provide practical guidance on complex payroll tax issues.
- Collaborate with payroll team on tax legislative changes and updates that impact daily operations and implementation projects.
- Collaborate with finance, legal and HR operations and respond to ad hoc tax information requests as required.
- Assist with preparation of data required for all Federal and State audits.
- Assist with preparation of data for various insurance renewals.
- Assist with testing tax-related system upgrades and enhancements prior to production implementation.
- Develop and maintain documentation of payroll tax standard operating procedure (SOPs).
- Continually identify process improvements to increase efficiency and effectiveness of payroll tax touching processes.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of payroll tax experience.
- Experience using ADP Global View.
- Proven expertise in payroll compliance and administration, with a strong background in tax consulting.
- Experience in leading payroll tax audits and resolving complex tax issues.
- In-depth understanding of U.S. payroll regulations, federal and state tax law as well as payroll compliance requirements in North America.
- Exceptional communication and proven leadership and team management experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, Human resources, or related field.
- Experience in global accounting consulting firms is highly desirable.
- Familiarity with international payroll processes and regulations is a plus.
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