Senior Lead Payroll Tax Analyst

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🔥 14 hours ago

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $153.6k - $261.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧾 Payroll

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Western Digital

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

10,000+ employees

Founded 1970

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

💰 $900M Post-IPO Equity on 2023-01

Manufacturing • Logistics • Consulting

Western Digital is a leading manufacturer of data storage solutions, including solid state drives (SSDs), hard drives (HDDs), USB flash drives, and memory cards. The company provides a broad range of products for various uses, such as gaming, video surveillance, and data backup. They also offer solutions for data centers, network-attached storage (NAS), and digital photography. Western Digital is renowned for their innovation in developing storage technologies that meet the needs of both consumers and businesses.

📋 Description

• Own end-to-end U.S. federal, state, and local payroll tax compliance • Serve as payroll tax functional lead for Workday Payroll • Oversee ADP Smart Compliance Employment Tax activities • Lead quarter-end and year-end payroll tax activities and review federal, state, and local filings • Reconcile taxable wages and payroll tax liabilities across payroll systems, general ledger, funding, and filed returns • Manage tax notices and agency inquiries through resolution • Manage payroll tax registrations, tax identification numbers, powers of attorney, deposit frequencies, tax rates, and account maintenance • Own payroll taxation and reporting for RSUs, PSUs, ESPP, stock options, and sell-to-cover transactions • Provide guidance on multi-state and local taxation, remote and mobile employees, supplemental wages, FICA, FUTA, SUI, paid leave and disability programs, reciprocity, and jurisdictional issues • Monitor legislative and regulatory changes and coordinate required system, vendor, control, and communication updates • Maintain SOX-ready controls, process documentation, calendars, issue trackers, reconciliations, audit support, and review evidence • Lead complex payroll tax issue resolution with internal partners, tax authorities, vendors, auditors, and external specialists • Support payroll tax audits, merger and acquisition activity, legal entity changes, successor employer requirements, and special projects • Develop and maintain the Americas payroll tax governance framework • Serve as the highest-level payroll tax authority for covered countries • Identify, assess, prioritize, and mitigate payroll tax risk and provide leadership reporting • Lead investigations, corrections, voluntary disclosures, examinations, penalty abatements, and remediation programs • Lead payroll tax workstreams for Workday implementation and optimization, acquisitions, divestitures, reorganizations, and transformation programs • Establish scalable payroll tax design principles and control requirements • Provide technical direction, coaching, and functional leadership to regional payroll teams and future payroll tax resources • Own payroll tax governance and compliance oversight for Canada, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil while maintaining primary U.S. ownership • Provide backup support for U.S. payroll processing and compliance activities when necessary

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Taxation, Human Resources, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience • At least 10 years of progressive payroll tax experience • Deep, hands-on responsibility for U.S. federal, state, and local payroll taxes in a complex, multi-state environment • Experience supporting payroll tax matters across multiple countries • Ability to own the full payroll tax lifecycle, including configuration, calculations, funding, filings, reconciliations, notices, amendments, quarter-end, year-end, and controls • Hands-on Workday Payroll experience, including U.S. payroll tax configuration, calculation review, testing, reconciliation, reporting, and issue resolution • Experience with ADP Smart Compliance Employment Tax or a comparable enterprise payroll tax filing platform • Strong technical knowledge of federal, multi-state, and local payroll taxation, including FICA, FUTA, SUI, supplemental wages, paid leave and disability programs, reciprocity, and amended returns • Experience with payroll taxation and reporting for RSUs, ESPP, and other equity compensation • Experience managing tax notices, registrations, agency inquiries, vendor escalations, tax reconciliations, and payroll tax controls • Ability to research complex payroll tax matters, interpret requirements, assess enterprise risk, document conclusions, influence decisions, and drive issues through resolution with limited direction • Strong analytical, executive communication, program leadership, documentation, and cross-functional influence skills • Experience designing payroll tax governance frameworks, compliance programs, controls, and audit-readiness strategies • Experience leading payroll tax workstreams for enterprise payroll, finance, HR, equity, or system transformation initiatives • Ability to influence senior leadership and drive decisions across multiple functions without direct authority • Experience translating regulatory requirements and risk assessments into scalable processes, system requirements, controls, and remediation plans • Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) designation preferred • Workday Payroll certification or extensive Workday Payroll implementation and production-support experience preferred • Direct Workday Payroll and ADP Smart Compliance integration experience preferred • Experience in a large, publicly traded organization with significant multi-state payroll and equity compensation activity preferred • Experience with SOX controls, internal and external audits, acquisitions, divestitures, legal entity changes, or successor employer payroll tax requirements preferred • Direct experience supporting payroll tax requirements in Canada, Mexico, Argentina, or Brazil preferred • Experience building or maturing a payroll tax function, center of excellence, or governance program preferred • Experience providing functional leadership to payroll tax specialists, regional payroll teams, or external service providers preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan with incentive awards based on Company and individual performance • Potential eligibility for annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program consisting of RSUs or cash equivalents • Eligible new-hire RSU awards • Paid vacation time • Paid sick leave • Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Life, accident, and disability insurance • Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts • Employee assistance program • Supplemental life and AD&D insurance • Legal plan • Pet insurance • Critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity benefits • Tuition reimbursement • Transit benefits • Applause Program • Employee stock purchase plan • Sandisk Savings 401(k) Plan