Senior Manager, Payroll Tax Amendment

Elevate the strategic vision for critical tax compliance processes, leveraging deep business acumen to define and finalize internal policy. Partner with Legal, Compliance, and Accounting to establish future-state standards and mitigate risk at scale. Collaborate with Product and Engineering to re-architect data extraction logic, ensuring accurate and minimal payroll data for tax amendments, driving efficiency and minimizing cost of service delivery. Ensure business continuity and mitigate knowledge transfer risk by thoroughly documenting core logic, error handling, and reconciliation processes, providing executive-level insight into operational stability. Integrate the amendment process with comprehensive workbooks to ensure data consistency, accuracy, and detailed audit trails, providing valuable insight into process integrity. Automate workflow to reflect changes/approvals in associated workbooks and provide accurate, in-depth reports and analysis, maximizing efficiency at scale. Implement advanced formulas for automatic calculation of tax implications for robust data validation, directly impacting the cost. Build, lead, and manage a new, high-performing team of Tax Amendment professionals responsible for all filings across all payroll models, ensuring coverage and compliance at scale. Mentor team leads and specialists, fostering a culture of openness, integrity, and cross-functional collaboration, cultivating internal expertise that reduces the cost of external reliance. Oversee the creation and filing of amended Federal, State, and Local tax returns (including W2Cs and amended 1099s) via Mastertax, and back-file original returns as necessary, managing a high volume of transactions at scale. Ensure adherence to compliance by proactively identifying and mitigating potential tax amendment risks, using sophisticated business acumen to quantify exposure at scale.