Tax Analyst

Mission

The Tax Specialist is responsible for supporting Obsidian HR in its pursuit of continued compliance with Federal, State and local tax regulations. The Tax Specialist will support our clients with timely and accurate filings and will support our internal teams with analysis and research. This person will be recognized as a go-to resource for tax and compliance.

Outcomes

• 100% Timely, accurate client responses (measured as zero overdue cases and clean queues)
• Clean audits of tax compliance issues
• On time, accurate completion of daily updates, monthly journal entries, and recons

Responsibilities

• Tax Compliance
  • Resolves payroll tax related notices & client inquiries by contacting government agencies for clarification and tax issue resolution
  • Ensures all PEO & HRO tax ids are up to date and SUI rates are up to date
  • Assist implementation team in collecting tax related information
  • Assist in resolving payroll tax related cases
  • Assist in any payroll tax related questions, updates, and tasks
  • Assist with research for new tax issues
  • Audits tax and system setup to ensure tax accuracy and compliance
  • Manage all state reporting (weekly, monthly, annual updates)
• Tax Filings and Payments

• • • Assist in all tax filing and payment tasks related to payroll taxes
    • Assist in GL entries related to payroll taxes, daily journal entries, and support with accounting recons
• Tax Process

• • Create and document new/updated processes as needed
  • Ensure updated and accurate tracking for data and project status for internal projects and ongoing projects with third party partners

Competencies

Adaptability: - Able to be flexible with new pressures (competition, loss of talent, new priorities). Adjusts quickly to change. Copes effectively with complex situations.

Intelligence: Demonstrates ability to acquire understanding and absorb new information rapidly. A

"Quick Study".

Analysis Skills: Identifies significant problems and opportunities. Analyzes problems in depth. Relates

and compares data from different sources. Able to determine root causes and subtle

relationships among data from various sources. Exhibits a probing mind. Achieves

penetrating insights.

Judgment / Decision Making: Demonstrates consistent logic, rationality, and objectivity in decision-making. Achieves balance between quick decisiveness and slower more thorough approaches, i.e., is neither indecisive nor a quick judge. Shows common sense. Anticipates consequences

of decisions.

Conceptual Ability: Deals effectively not just with concrete, tangible issues, but also with abstract, conceptual matters.

Pragmatism: Generates sensible, realistic, practical solutions to problems.

Resourcefulness: Seeks out and seizes opportunities, goes beyond the "call of duty", passionately finds ways to surmount barriers. Action-oriented "doer", achieving results despite lack of resources. Able to re-stimulate projects that have languished. Shows preference for action ("make it happen").

Oral Communication: Communicates effectively one to one, in small groups, and in public speaking contexts. Demonstrates fluency and "quickness on one's feet", clarity of organization of thought

processes, and command of the language. Easily articulates vision and standards. Keeps

people informed.

Written Communication: Writes clear, precise, well-organized emails, memos, letters, and proposals while using appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and word usage, and creating the appropriate "tone".

Experience:

• 2+ years of experience in payroll and/or payroll tax (Required)
• Multi-state payroll and/or tax compliance (Required)
• Prior experience in PEO, PRISM HR or iSolved (Preferred)