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Job Overview
We are looking for a Senior Payroll Compliance Analyst to join our Payroll team within the Compensation Operations Department. Our team is responsible for processing US multi-state and Canadian multi-province payrolls and tax remittances, ensuring compliance with all regulatory requirements while maintaining accuracy and timeliness. We partner with HR, Legal, Finance, and others to ensure our payroll processes align with evolving business needs and regulations while delivering a high-class user experience. Additionally, we collaborate with our Product Teams to move from strategy to execution, designing and enhancing business processes with simplicity and transparency while creating capacity for our business areas to move the business forward.
In collaboration with our Finance & Human Capital Transformation Office, our firm is implementing a new payroll system over the next two years. This Senior Payroll Compliance Analyst role will play a critical part in ensuring smooth transition, supporting the teams onboarding to the new system, updating documentation and processes, and ensuring the platform is performing as expected during implementation.
The Senior Payroll Compliance Analyst plays a critical role in ensuring payroll compliance, optimizing processes, and driving automation to enhance efficiency and accuracy. This role serves as a liaison between payroll and HCM, overseeing compliance controls, payroll process enhancements, and mobility tax arrangements. Additionally, the senior analyst will lead payroll tax reconciliations, manage compliance controls, and assess payroll implications for strategic business initiatives, ensuring compliance while mitigating risk. They will also provide coverage for essential payroll compliance functions, support service escalations, and act as an informal leader within the payroll team, fostering collaboration and continuous improvement.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Payroll Compliance & Tax Operations –Overseeing US and Canadian multi-jurisdictional payroll tax reconciliations, ensuring compliance with federal, state, provincial, and local regulations. This role will lead optimizing payroll compliance structures and serve as the primary backup for service partner payroll expertise. Monitoring payroll system controls and collaborating with Finance, HR, and Risk Management to strengthen payroll compliance and governance.
- Automation, Optimization & Payroll Data Strategy – Driving process optimization and automation initiatives to enhance payroll compliance, reconciliations, and reporting. Utilizing technology and automation tools to streamline processes, reduce manual intervention, and approve accuracy. Analyzing payroll data trends while providing insights for process improvements and compliance risk mitigation. Also, supporting system enhancements to align with evolving business and regulatory requirements.
- Governance & Strategic Influence – Serves as a key representative for payroll in strategic discussions and cross-functional initiatives, ensuring that payroll compliance considerations are proactively addressed in firm-wide decisions. Collaborates with key stakeholders and firm leaders to assess the payroll impact of new business strategies, system implementations, and regulatory changes. Partnering with external tax agencies and internal stakeholders to mitigate risks, resolve payroll issues, and strengthen governance frameworks.
- Controls & Compliance Risk Management – Establish and maintain payroll tax controls, ensuring accuracy, and preventing discrepancies in payroll reporting. Identify and address compliance control gaps, recommend and implement process improvements, and collaborate with internal audit, risk management, and finance teams to enhance payroll oversight.
- Informal Leadership & Partnership – In collaboration with the department leader, act as an informal leader within payroll, providing mentorship and technical and strategic guidance to associates. Manage service escalations, ensuring timely resolution of compliance-related issues, and support payroll process changes related to system updates, policy shifts, and evolving business needs. Providing coverage by maintaining a broad knowledge across payroll compliance functions to ensure business continuity and operational efficiency.
This position requires a consistent need to work closely with the Payroll team, with other departments within Finance, and with various levels of associates in other divisions of the firm including senior leaders. While there are no direct people responsibilities, this role will coordinate independently with other associates, leaders, and teams outside of Payroll to accomplish tasks and meet deadlines. This includes the ability to identify and help resolve pain points that may not be within our direct responsibility. In addition, this role will require mentoring and training of other associates on the team as it relates to core processes, with leader support.
Hiring Minimum: $84100
Hiring Maximum: $143100
Skills/Requirements
This position requires a consistent need to work closely with the Payroll team, with other departments within Finance, and with various levels of associates in other divisions of the firm including senior leaders. While there are no direct people responsibilities, this role will coordinate independently with other associates, leaders, and teams outside of Payroll to accomplish tasks and meet deadlines. This includes the ability to identify and help resolve pain points that may not be within our direct responsibility. In addition, this role will require mentoring and training of other associates on the team as it relates to core processes, with leader support.
Position Requirements:
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree
- Experience: Minimum of 6 years of related experience, with exposure to payroll tax, compliance, data analysis, and process improvement.
- Skills & Technology:
- Strong knowledge of data analytics, reporting tools, and compliance and governance frameworks.
- Experience with automation tools, HCM/ERP system implementations, and financial reconciliations.
- Ability to analyze payroll trends and develop data-driven strategies for process improvements.
- Certifications:
- Fundamental Payroll Certification (FPC) or Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) — Preferred, but not required
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) – Preferred, but not required
Please note: Candidates that live within a commutable distance from our Tempe, AZ and St. Louis, MO home office locations are expected to work in the office three days per week, with preference for Tuesday through Thursday.
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