senior specialist – payroll & payroll tax

The shopping destination for diverse, working American families. With inclusivity at its core, the Company’s product assortment meets customers’ everyday needs and helps them commemorate every special occasion with style, quality, and value. Company offers a broad portfolio of fashion, apparel, home, beauty, and jewelry from national and private brands and provides personal services including salon, portrait, and optical. The Company and its 50,000 associates worldwide serve customers where, when, and how they want to shop, to more than 650 stores in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. 

Responsibilities:

• Performs assigned payroll activities to ensure accurate and timely payment of domestic associates
• Ensure that payroll activity is properly recorded in the General ledger and assists in research and analysis on reconciling items
• Work with third party providers to ensure payroll tax compliance for both the company and associates
• Utilize resources to identify issues, solve problems, and implement solutions with little to no supervision
• Solves and escalates issues to management in a simple and actionable format.
• Performs complex data mining, analytics, and query creation
• Perform root cause analysis and streamline processes to improve efficiency and reduce costs
• Work cross-functionally to resolve issues including across other areas of the company
• Identifies and solves issues with limited/ambiguous parameters

Experience/Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance is preferred.
• 4- 6 years’ experience in roles with increasing responsibility AND analytical decision making

experience

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