Senior Lead Payroll Tax Analyst
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Senior payroll tax analyst overseeing U.S. and Americas compliance for Sandisk, a global flash memory and advanced memory technology company. Leading Workday, ADP, equity taxation, governance, audits, and risk management.
Responsibilities:
- Own end-to-end U.S. federal, state, and local payroll tax compliance
- Serve as payroll tax functional lead for Workday Payroll
- Oversee ADP Smart Compliance Employment Tax activities
- Lead quarter-end and year-end payroll tax activities and review federal, state, and local filings
- Reconcile taxable wages and payroll tax liabilities across payroll systems, general ledger, funding, and filed returns
- Manage tax notices and agency inquiries through resolution
- Manage payroll tax registrations, tax identification numbers, powers of attorney, deposit frequencies, tax rates, and account maintenance
- Own payroll taxation and reporting for RSUs, PSUs, ESPP, stock options, and sell-to-cover transactions
- Provide guidance on multi-state and local taxation, remote and mobile employees, supplemental wages, FICA, FUTA, SUI, paid leave and disability programs, reciprocity, and jurisdictional issues
- Monitor legislative and regulatory changes and coordinate required system, vendor, control, and communication updates
- Maintain SOX-ready controls, process documentation, calendars, issue trackers, reconciliations, audit support, and review evidence
- Lead complex payroll tax issue resolution with internal partners, tax authorities, vendors, auditors, and external specialists
- Support payroll tax audits, merger and acquisition activity, legal entity changes, successor employer requirements, and special projects
- Develop and maintain the Americas payroll tax governance framework
- Serve as the highest-level payroll tax authority for covered countries
- Identify, assess, prioritize, and mitigate payroll tax risk and provide leadership reporting
- Lead investigations, corrections, voluntary disclosures, examinations, penalty abatements, and remediation programs
- Lead payroll tax workstreams for Workday implementation and optimization, acquisitions, divestitures, reorganizations, and transformation programs
- Establish scalable payroll tax design principles and control requirements
- Provide technical direction, coaching, and functional leadership to regional payroll teams and future payroll tax resources
- Own payroll tax governance and compliance oversight for Canada, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil while maintaining primary U.S. ownership
- Provide backup support for U.S. payroll processing and compliance activities when necessary
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Taxation, Human Resources, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience
- At least 10 years of progressive payroll tax experience
- Deep, hands-on responsibility for U.S. federal, state, and local payroll taxes in a complex, multi-state environment
- Experience supporting payroll tax matters across multiple countries
- Ability to own the full payroll tax lifecycle, including configuration, calculations, funding, filings, reconciliations, notices, amendments, quarter-end, year-end, and controls
- Hands-on Workday Payroll experience, including U.S. payroll tax configuration, calculation review, testing, reconciliation, reporting, and issue resolution
- Experience with ADP Smart Compliance Employment Tax or a comparable enterprise payroll tax filing platform
- Strong technical knowledge of federal, multi-state, and local payroll taxation, including FICA, FUTA, SUI, supplemental wages, paid leave and disability programs, reciprocity, and amended returns
- Experience with payroll taxation and reporting for RSUs, ESPP, and other equity compensation
- Experience managing tax notices, registrations, agency inquiries, vendor escalations, tax reconciliations, and payroll tax controls
- Ability to research complex payroll tax matters, interpret requirements, assess enterprise risk, document conclusions, influence decisions, and drive issues through resolution with limited direction
- Strong analytical, executive communication, program leadership, documentation, and cross-functional influence skills
- Experience designing payroll tax governance frameworks, compliance programs, controls, and audit-readiness strategies
- Experience leading payroll tax workstreams for enterprise payroll, finance, HR, equity, or system transformation initiatives
- Ability to influence senior leadership and drive decisions across multiple functions without direct authority
- Experience translating regulatory requirements and risk assessments into scalable processes, system requirements, controls, and remediation plans
- Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) designation preferred
- Workday Payroll certification or extensive Workday Payroll implementation and production-support experience preferred
- Direct Workday Payroll and ADP Smart Compliance integration experience preferred
- Experience in a large, publicly traded organization with significant multi-state payroll and equity compensation activity preferred
- Experience with SOX controls, internal and external audits, acquisitions, divestitures, legal entity changes, or successor employer payroll tax requirements preferred
- Direct experience supporting payroll tax requirements in Canada, Mexico, Argentina, or Brazil preferred
- Experience building or maturing a payroll tax function, center of excellence, or governance program preferred
- Experience providing functional leadership to payroll tax specialists, regional payroll teams, or external service providers preferred
Benefits:
- Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan with incentive awards based on Company and individual performance
- Potential eligibility for annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program consisting of RSUs or cash equivalents
- Eligible new-hire RSU awards
- Paid vacation time
- Paid sick leave
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Life, accident, and disability insurance
- Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
- Employee assistance program
- Supplemental life and AD&D insurance
- Legal plan
- Pet insurance
- Critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Transit benefits
- Applause Program
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Sandisk Savings 401(k) Plan
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