PEO Payroll Tax Analyst I

Uses technical skills, communication skills, payroll tax knowledge, and PEO knowledge to support the PEO Payroll Tax department. Responsibilities include Tax Project representation, internal process creation and enhancements, internal and external training, report generation, and data analysis.

• Represents PEO on project teams. Works with supervisor and other PEO resources to determine potential impacts to PEO Tax and other business units, and provides project guidance based upon those impacts.
• Uses research skills, applying tax foundational knowledge to understand potential tax issues and tax information necessary for tax filings. Recognizes and communicates potential risks to minimize the risk for Paychex. Educates team on tax concepts, regulatory changes, and tax laws, including proactively monitoring and driving issues to quick resolution.
• Identifies and assists in root cause analysis of system issues or processing breakdowns to provide data necessary to prevent the issues or breakdowns from reoccurring. Also provides business unit support for complicated or escalated operational requests.
• Works with Supervisor as representative in PEO Tax initiatives involving corporate departments, sales, and business unit stakeholders in order to provide improvements to existing business processes, policies, procedures, and technologies.
• Generates and maintains reports on key PEO Tax operating indicators so that PEO Leadership is accurately informed when making decisions.
• Assists in the creation and execution of test cases/plans and participates in user acceptance testing so that the content and quality of projects can be assured.
• Provides regular and concise status on deliverables to Supervisor in order to ensure that business unit(s) needs are considered and that the considerations are being met.
• Acts as subject matter expert regarding taxation/processing questions.

• Bachelor's Degree - Preferred
• 3 years of experience in Payroll or accounting.
• Payroll Tax and PEO experience - required.

Salary : $48,300 - $61,200