Senior Tax Analyst

Payroll Tax Analyst

The primary function of the Payroll Tax Analyst is to manage and support GPC North America across multiple divisions and approximately 30,000 employees as the Tax SME. The role involves overseeing various tax TPA vendors, compliance, GL reconciliation, planning, and reporting while providing strategic tax insights to optimize financial performance. The role will provide tax guidance, analysis, and research to support the Financial Services and Payroll Teams.

Primary Duties / Responsibilities :

• Collaborates with Payroll Compliance Management on tax legislative changes and updates that impact daily operations and implementation projects.
• Vendor management of various Tax TPAs and vendors to ensure tax payments, compliance and reporting deadlines are met.
• Manages periodic, quarterly and annual tax returns with applicable TPAs to ensure business is compliant, and returns are processed timely.
• Acts as SME of federal, state, and local tax regulations to include all 50 States.
• Responsible for reviewing and ensuring that employer tax set up in Workday is compliant with IRS, DOL, and pertinent legislation, following accurate interpretation of federal guidelines and company policies.
• Conducts in-depth tax research and analysis to identify opportunities and risks.
• Maintains all tax rates, tax jurisdictions by work location, and verification of employee work-in / resident state taxes when they differ.
• Ensure accurate reciprocal tax agreements are in place with applicable states and local jurisdictions.
• Manage the closure of inactive SUI, SIT and Local accounts and registration of new accounts when required.
• Responsible for GL, periodic, quarterly, and annual tax reconciliations.
• Adhere to GPC record keeping and retention polices to ensure compliance with internal / external audits.
• Responsible for internal and external research of escalated tax, payroll, and accounting issues.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining process documentation for tasks for the role.
• Responds timely to case management based on agreed SLAs.
• Works with internal financial teams and management to identify cost saving strategies that provide favorable outcomes to the company.
• Create and manage various internal payroll tax audits to include but not limited to taxation based on work locale, jurisdictions, reciprocity, etc. to mitigate impact to employee's taxes.
• Provides support to outside tax firms for expatriate employee taxation.
• Additional duties as assigned.

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Exciting Benefits and Perks Await You :

AutoNation is committed to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment in our workplace and the services we provide. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who are passionate about making a positive impact. Even if you do not meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. Join our team and help us foster a culture of belonging while contributing to our revolutionary work in the automotive industry. We value innovation, teamwork, and a commitment to making a positive impact in the world.