Tax Analyst
This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The Vacancy
The Payroll Tax Analyst is responsible for ensuring accurate calculation, reporting, and compliance of payroll taxes at the federal, state, and local levels. This position will play a critical role in processing payroll tax filings, ensuring timely payments, resolving tax discrepancies and tax notices for multiple clients, and maintaining compliance with current payroll tax regulations.
Key Responsibilities:
Payroll Tax Compliance: Ensure the accurate calculation, reporting, and payment of all federal, state, and local payroll taxes.
Tax Filing: Prepare and file payroll tax returns (941, 940, state unemployment, etc.) in a timely manner, ensuring compliance with deadlines.
Tax Payments: Process and reconcile payroll tax payments and ensure payments are made accurately and on time to the appropriate tax authorities.
Wage and Tax Reconciliations: Perform monthly, quarterly, and annual reconciliations of payroll tax accounts, ensuring all discrepancies are identified and corrected.
Tax Audits: Assist with internal and external audits by preparing tax schedules and providing supporting documentation as needed.
Stay Current on Legislation: Monitor changes in payroll tax laws and regulations and ensure compliance with new requirements. Advise management of upcoming changes and their potential impact.
System Maintenance: Work with payroll software and systems to ensure payroll tax tables are updated and reflect current regulations.
Year-End Reporting: Assist with the preparation and filing of W-2s, 1099s, and other year-end payroll tax forms, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
Employee Assistance: Address and resolve payroll tax issues for employees, including answering questions about tax withholdings and filings.
Process Improvements: Identify and implement improvements to payroll tax processes and systems to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
Technical Skills:
- Strong knowledge of payroll tax regulations (federal, state, and local).
- Proficiency in payroll systems and tax software
- Advanced Excel skills
Key Competencies:
Detail-Oriented: Strong attention to detail to ensure accuracy in payroll tax calculations and reporting.
Analytical: Ability to analyze tax-related data and resolve discrepancies.
Communication: Clear communication skills to address tax issues with employees and management.
Time Management: Ability to meet strict deadlines, particularly during tax filing periods. Ability to work independently and as a team. Ability to manage multiple deadlines.
Problem Solving: Ability to proactively identify and resolve tax issues.
About IRIS
As one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies, IRIS Software Group exists to simplify the lives of businesses, schools and organisations.
IRIS provides software solutions and services that substantially enhance operational compliance, efficiency and accuracy, empowering the users of our technology to look forward with certainty and confidence.
Over 4 million parents use our software to connect with their child’s school, 18% of UK employees are paid via an IRIS payroll solution, 50,000 SMEs use IRIS cloud bookkeeping and 21,000 firms rely on us for legislative compliance.
Our operational software is the invisible but essential beating heart of our customers’ businesses, supporting them in a range of objectives, from maintaining legislative compliance to boosting engagement with stakeholders and enhancing productivity.
It’s vital these mission-critical functions work first time, every time.
That’s why IRIS helps businesses run the tough stuff, stay compliant and get operational tasks done right first time, every time – so they can focus on productivity and growth.
IRIS is a company built on hiring the best people; our people are our greatest assets.
They enable us to be the innovative, market-leading, and high-performing company that we are today.
We’re delighted to be certified as a Great Place to Work and one of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women.
These accolades confirm that our employees have a consistently positive experience at IRIS, with the certifications considering employee wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, trust in management, effective communication and recognition/reward.
IRIS is committed to engaging, rewarding and empowering our employees, and this is central to what we do.
This is why we work to create an environment where employees feel like they are part of a team.
Why work for IRIS?
The Benefits
Developing your career
We believe in creating a culture of engagement and reward to develop your potential and offer long-term career success. We do this by:
Supporting our managers to be great leaders, providing inspirational management resources and offering dedicated management development training.
Rewarding individual excellence through dedicated initiatives and Employee Awards for demonstrating our values.
Offering regular training and development programmes tailored to each employee’s development needs and providing a commitment to a ‘learning culture’ which shares knowledge, best practice and our long-standing expertise between employees.
We’re committed to a culture of continuous improvement and listen to our employees via regular feedback sessions and employee engagement surveys.
Our employees love the colleagues they work with. We promote a positive environment where our people feel comfortable, make friends and support each other.
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