Payroll Tax Specialist – Temporary

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🐊 Florida, New York – Remote

🐊 Florida – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $24 - $32 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧾 Payroll

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Fanatics

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10,000+ employees

⚽ Sports

🛍️ eCommerce

🛒 Retail

💰 $700M Private Equity Round - Fanatics on 2022-12

Sports • eCommerce • Retail

Fanatics is a global sports merchandise and apparel company focused on delivering officially licensed fan products and enhancing the fan experience. The company’s public site emphasizes a broad footprint, partnerships with sports organizations, brand protection, and multiple business lines (including Fanatics ONE), along with corporate responsibility, sourcing transparency, and investor relations. Fanatics operates e-commerce and retail channels and supports both consumer-facing sales and business partnerships tied to sports licensing and merchandising.

📋 Description

• Analyze prior-period payroll tax discrepancies across federal, state, and local jurisdictions and prepare corrected filings, including federal 941-X amendments, state amended returns, and local corrections • Calculate correct tax liability, over/under-withholding variances, penalties, and interest • Coordinate with ADP SmartCompliance to submit amended returns and confirm agency receipt • Triage and resolve open agency tax notices • Prepare written responses within statutory response windows and escalate items approaching penalty or lien risk • Coordinate W-2C preparation with HR, Oracle, ADP, and the Social Security Administration • Confirm amended returns match corrected W-2C amounts • Document root cause and resolution for each item to build institutional knowledge for the permanent team

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of hands-on payroll tax experience, including at least 3 years focused specifically on amendment processing and tax notice resolution in a multi-state, multi-FEIN environment • Direct, hands-on experience preparing federal 941-X filings and multi-state amended returns in ADP SmartCompliance, with the ability to independently calculate liability, variance, penalty, and interest • Working knowledge of state income tax withholding, SUI, SDI, and PFML across multiple jurisdictions • Local jurisdiction experience (e.g., Pennsylvania PSD codes, Kentucky local occupational taxes, Ohio local tax structures) strongly preferred • Oracle HCM/USOPTE experience strongly preferred; at minimum, ability to review Oracle tax records and trace discrepancies to source • CPP or FPC credential preferred • Prior experience in a large-employer (10,000+), high-volume payroll tax environment • Ability to work independently from day one and resolve items within the 60-day contract window