Sr Manager, Payroll Tax and Accounting

About the role

The Senior Workday Payroll Tax and Accounting Manager will report to the Director of Payroll Operations. This position manages activity and direction of payroll tax and accounting staff, compliance and reporting for both the McKesson and US Oncology employees and legal entities.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates the activities of the McKesson and USON Tax and Accounting teams. Develop work schedules and monitor workflow to ensure established deadlines for accounting, tax filing and reporting are achieved. Interacts daily with direct reports to monitor progress of assigned tasks. Responsible for establishing goals and objectives for the tax and accounting teams.
• Ensures compliance with company policies, procedures and internal controls. Develop, monitor and enforce policies, procedures, customer service and productivity standards. Ensures that updated Standard Operating Procedures and SLAs for each task of the teams are updated and communicated to employees. Ensures compliance with company policies, procedures and internal controls.
• Handles special projects and provide assistance across the functional payroll group.
• Develop employees through coaching and feedback, rewards and recognition. Identify personal growth plans/opportunities for direct reports.
• Provide tax and accounting planning and compliance expertise to management to ensure that McKesson and USON remains compliant with federal, state and local regulations. Participate in PI planning with McKesson and USON teams to recommend and monitor new projects needed to achieve greater efficiency in the payroll tax and accounting areas. Assist in testing and roll out of these projects.
• Manage/Coordinate with the USON Payroll Manager, the payroll tax processes for USON mergers and acquisitions. Assure proper tax treatment of acquired employees as well as setup of any new tax accounts required. Monitor first payrolls to verify accurate, timely payment of new employees.
• Responsible for managing SOX and internal accounting audits, negotiate/recommend settlement of any outstanding issues upon completion of audit.

Requirements

• 9+ years of professional experience and 3+ years of supervisory and/or management experience
• Experienced, fully competent in all payroll, payroll tax (i.e. federal, state, local withholding, federal and state unemployment, etc.), and accounting, accruals and journal entries, variance and reconciliation
• Detail oriented and highly analytical; ability to utilize data to make recommendations and drive action.
• Able to successfully manage competing priorities simultaneously
• Excellent professional communication skills in listening, verbalization and writing
• Ability to communicate with all organizational levels in a positive, motivated and constructive manner
• Strong accounting and general ledger knowledge required
• Payroll tax processing experience required
• Multi-state payroll environment required

Qualifications

• Advanced Knowledge of Workday Payroll system
• Advanced Knowledge of ADP Tax Reporting system
• Advanced Knowledge of SAP General Ledger system
• Knowledge of Blackline