Payroll Tax Analyst (Hybrid)

At Prudential, we believe talent is key to achieving our vision. When you join Prudential, you’ll unlock a motivating and impactful career—all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world’s leading financial services institutions. This role is located in Newark, NJ, supporting compliance and regulatory tax withholding reporting requirements in partnership with our business areas. The team is part of the Tax department within the Finance and Actuarial organization.

About the role

A unique opportunity exists within the Tax Operations team for a Payroll Tax Analyst to support newly established work related to payroll tax filing and reporting processes managed by an external payroll vendor. Reporting to the Vice President, Process Management, the Tax Analyst will oversee the ADP vendor relationship, including the maintenance, monitoring, and continuous optimization of payroll tax lifecycle business processes. This role works closely with the Tax Operations function to ensure payroll tax processes are executed accurately, timely, and efficiently, in compliance with all applicable tax withholding, remittance, and reporting requirements. The position requires a highly organized and detail-oriented professional who demonstrates strong collaboration skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment. Work assignments may vary in scope and include project-based initiatives driven by evolving business needs.

The current work arrangement for this position is hybrid, requiring on-site presence on a reoccurring basis as determined by your business manager.

Responsibilities

• Handle the daily funding process with ADP Employment Tax and various processes required to ensure the vendor meets all required service levels.
• Review daily, quarterly, and annual payroll tax-related integration files from Workday to ensure operational processes are compliant.
• Run various reports from Workday to support data collection, research, and reporting.
• Support the reconciliation and Year-End W2 balancing process, including the production of tax forms.
• Support the review of all daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual tasks associated with tax reporting processes to ensure timely completion.
• Respond to tax notice inquiries, complete research, and correspondence with taxing authorities.
• Manage and serve as a backup for daily payment processes, including completion of quality reviews and oversight of production job streams/rejects.
• Support employment tax audits, tax law changes, new tax account setups, and account registrations with tax jurisdictions.
• Participate in or lead special projects, such as process redesign or process improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• BA/BS college degree or 3-5 years of professional work experience required.
• Minimum of 2-3 years of payroll tax reporting experience.
• Proficient in MS Office Tools (e.g., Word, Excel).

Skills

• Ability to prioritize and simultaneously execute multiple deliverables with varied deadlines.
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail.
• An inquisitive and agile learner who is not afraid to challenge the status quo.
• Comfortable working with and across global teams in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication as well as receptive listening skills.
• Strong partnering, problem-solving, and issue-resolution skills, with the ability to identify business processes that can be streamlined and optimized for the end user.
• Critical and creative thinking, with the ability to think broadly and make connections across multiple applications and processes.
• Proactive and results-oriented; operates well with ambiguity and with a high degree of independence, collaboration, resilience, curiosity, and adaptability.

Nice to have

• Knowledge or experience in Workday is a plus.

Pay

Prudential is required by state-specific laws to include the salary range for this role when hiring a resident in applicable locations. The salary range for this role is from $70,300.00 to $116,100.00. Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills. Market-competitive base salaries, with yearly bonus potential at every level.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability insurance.
• Paid Time Off (PTO) and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave.
• 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%).
• Company-funded pension plan.
• Wellness Programs including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs.
• Work/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development.
• Education Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (beginning or end of the purchase period).
• Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

Some of the above benefits may not apply to part-time employees scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week.