Senior Payroll Compliance Analyst

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Payroll Compliance Analyst to join our Payroll team within the Compensation Operations Department. Our team processes US multi-state and Canadian multi-province payrolls and tax remittances, ensuring compliance with all regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Oversee US and Canadian multi-jurisdictional payroll tax reconciliations, ensuring compliance with federal, state, provincial, and local regulations.
• Lead optimizing payroll compliance structures and serve as the primary backup for service partner payroll expertise.
• Maintain payroll tax controls, ensuring accuracy and preventing discrepancies in payroll reporting.
• Identify and address compliance control gaps, recommend and implement process improvements, and collaborate with internal audit, risk management, and finance teams to enhance payroll oversight.
• Drive process optimization and automation initiatives to enhance payroll compliance, reconciliations, and reporting.
• Analyze payroll data trends while providing insights for process improvements and compliance risk mitigation.
• Support system enhancements to align with evolving business and regulatory requirements.
• Serve as a key representative for payroll in strategic discussions and cross-functional initiatives, ensuring that payroll compliance considerations are proactively addressed in firm-wide decisions.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders and firm leaders to assess the payroll impact of new business strategies, system implementations, and regulatory changes.
• Partner with external tax agencies and internal stakeholders to mitigate risks, resolve payroll issues, and strengthen governance frameworks.
• Provide mentorship and technical and strategic guidance to associates, manage service escalations, ensure timely resolution of compliance-related issues, and support payroll process changes related to system updates, policy shifts, and evolving business needs.

Requirements

• Minimum of 6 years of payroll experience, with exposure to payroll tax, compliance, data analysis, and process improvement.
• Strong knowledge of data analytics, reporting tools, and compliance and governance frameworks.
• Experience with automation tools, HCM/ERP system implementations, and financial reconciliations.
• Ability to analyze payroll trends and develop data-driven strategies for process improvements.

Skills & Technology

• Strong knowledge of data analytics, reporting tools, and compliance and governance frameworks.
• Experience with automation tools, HCM/ERP system implementations, and financial reconciliations.
• Ability to analyze payroll trends and develop data-driven strategies for process improvements.

Qualifications

• Fundamental Payroll Certification (FPC) or Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) – Preferred, but not required.
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) – Preferred, but not required.

Benefits

• Medical and prescription drug, dental, vision, voluntary benefits (such as accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness).
• Short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan, and tax-advantaged accounts: health savings account, and flexible spending account.
• Ten paid holidays and 15 days of vacation for new associates beginning on January 1 of each year, as well as sick time, personal days, and a paid day for volunteerism.
• Bonuses and profit sharing.
• Employee Assistance Program.

Pay

Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.

Schedule

Candidates that live within a commutable distance from our Tempe, AZ and St. Louis, MO home office locations are expected to work in the office four days per week.