Payroll Tax Analyst, PEO
Job Description:
- Assist with the setup and launch of Remote’s expanded US Tax Operations services
- Manage payroll-related state tax registrations and account maintenance, including employment tax and workers’ compensation accounts, with federal and state tax agencies
- Perform daily tax-related operations, including tax filing, account setup, and issue resolution with government tax authorities
- Provide feedback to internal teams and government agencies to ensure accurate and timely tax registrations and account maintenance
- Review and resolve inbound escalations related to registration errors, registration challenges, and agency communications
- Develop and execute tax operations strategies that streamline registration processes and tax filings
- Identify process improvements in tax registration workflows
- Collaborate with R&D to automate tax registration and reporting processes
- Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local tax regulations
- Establish and maintain quality assurance standards for tax operations, tax data, and reporting
- Serve as the primary point of contact for federal and state tax agencies
- Communicate agency tax updates and insights with internal stakeholders
- Generate reports on tax filings, registration status, and compliance metrics
- Analyze customer tax data using internal software tools and provide insights to sales teams for customer proposals and engagements
Requirements:
- Must have U.S. payroll experience to understand compliance requirements in a PEO environment
- Proven experience in supervising operations, ideally in a payroll or similar environment
- Strong project management skills with a track record of leading cross-functional initiatives
- Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills
- Strong leadership and team-building abilities
- High level of comfort with technology and ability to work in a fast-paced, remote environment
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work autonomously and make decisions with minimal supervision
- Passion for building new business lines and driving growth
- Fluent in English; additional languages are a plus
- Experience working remotely is preferred but not required
- Ability to work U.S. hours, with flexibility for Pacific time zone (PST) and Eastern Standard Time (EST)
- Strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency
- Prior employment verification check
Benefits:
- work from anywhere
- flexible paid time off
- flexible working hours (we are async)
- 16 weeks paid parental leave
- budget towards co-working spaces, learning and wellness (including gym memberships)
- mental health support services
- stock options
- home office budget & IT equipment
- life-work balance and flexibility to plan your schedule around your life