Senior Payroll Compliance Analyst

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As an industry leader Balfour Beatty offers employees a comprehensive benefits package with competitive salaries and more including:

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
• Health Savings Account
• 401(k) with company match
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Dependent & Medical Reimbursement)
• Vacation Time
• Sick Time
• Holidays
• Paid Volunteer time
• Tuition Assistance
• Employee Referral Bonus

Balfour Beatty is seeking a Senior Payroll Compliance Analyst to join our team in Dallas, TX. The Senior Payroll Compliance Analyst will provide support for all payroll and payroll tax compliance related activities, accurately process payroll tax deposits and returns utilizing a third party provider and maintain agency registration and system configuration for payroll taxes. This individual will also complete payroll accounting processes, complete assigned regulatory reporting and ad hoc reporting requests and use analytical and technical applications to enhance processes, while ensuring compliance with Federal, State, and Local regulations as well as Company policies, procedures, and internal controls.

• Review, balance, and transmit all federal, state, and local tax deposits to Dayforce each Tuesday and Thursday. Complete associated journal entries for these deposits ensuring that all tax related general ledger accounts are balanced and reconciled. The entire process is to be completed by 3:00 PM CST.
• Provide research and guidance to ensure proper taxation of employees. Review and resolve any employee tax set up issues. Complete tax corrections, tax refunds, and corrected W2s as necessary.
• Review and code tax-related invoices.
• Complete all federal, state, and local tax payments and returns not supported by Dayforce.
• Reconcile and process all federal, state, and local quarterly and year-end tax filings including W2 preparation and distribution.
• Complete all amended returns required on a quarterly basis.
• Research and resolve all tax notices/refunds maintaining organized electronic files and detailed log. Review unresolved tax notices/refunds with Director monthly
• Apply for and maintain all federal, state, and local payroll tax accounts with both the applicable tax authority and Dayforce. Complete all processes for company vehicle and fuel imputed income true up.
• Complete all processes for equity shares taxation and payment.
• Maintain workers compensation accrual rates in JD Edwards.
• Maintain JD Edwards and Dayforce tax account number and tax rates.
• Reconcile all payroll related balance sheet accounts quarterly.
• Complete all journal entries as required ensuring that transactions are properly recorded.
• Complete and distribute assigned reports timely. Ensure information contained within reports is accurate.
• Maintain high level of user knowledge for all payroll software applications to be designated as a "super user". Provide subject matter expertise to support payroll tax setup within payroll software application
• Write and/or obtain documentation for all payroll processes and payroll tax processes and maintain necessary updates.
• Identify key payroll related compliance violations, communicate those issues, and suggest/implement plans for redefining necessary processes.
• Identify non-efficiency issues within the department and/or company-wide payroll network and suggest/implement plans for improvement.
• Respond to all requests for information within four (4) business days of receipt. If a request cannot be completed within four (4) business days, work with the customer to determine a mutually acceptable date for report completion.
• Effectively manage initiatives, projects, and subordinates. Ensure that processes, procedures, service delivery and records management are uniform, consistent, and efficient.

Promote Customer Relations

• Builds effective relationships with project teams, functional departments, customers, vendors, and user groups that reflect and support company core values and meets or exceeds the customer's expectations.
• Actively participates in industry, client, and community relations to enhance company image.

• Promotes our Creed. Communicates our vision and purpose through Service, Talent & Choices.
• Serves as a role model and promotes professional behavior.
• Participates in personal career development through training, participates in software training and seminars as applicable for this position.

Embrace key BB-wide initiatives, like Zero Harm, Sustainability, and core Values, and does one's part to demonstrate relentless behaviors and embeds them into our culture.

Performs other related duties as assigned

Majority of work is completed in an office setting with intermittent sitting, standing and walking. Periodic travel required.

• High school diploma or equivalent; bachelor's degree in accounting or related field preferred
• A minimum of five (5) years of multi-state payroll tax processing experience with a mid-size company of 1,000 to 5,000 employees
• A minimum of two (2) years of general accounting experience preferred
• Strong knowledge Federal and multi-state taxation
• Strong knowledge payroll tax work processes and best practices
• Advanced Excel skills preferred
• Dayforce experience preferred
• JD Edwards experience a plus
• Strong computer skills in word processing and spreadsheet software. Demonstrates proficiency using a personal computer (PC), company communication tools (e.g. email, internet), and Microsoft products (e.g., Word, Excel, Outlook)
• Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) preferred
• Ability to meet strict daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly deadlines
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent multi-tasking capabilities while maintaining organization and meticulous attention to detail
• Ability to maintain confidentiality at all times
• Excellent customer service skills

Balfour Beatty US is an industry-leading provider of general contracting, at-risk construction management and design-build services for public and private sector clients across the nation. Performing heavy civil and vertical construction, our teams build the unique structures and infrastructure that play an important role in how people live, work, learn and play in our communities. Our teammates have an instinctive passion for innovating that is fueled by a relentless curiosity, a drive to employ lean practices and processes and the determination to find a better way. Through Zero Harm, we are challenging the construction industry's assumptions about safety. We believe that no level of harm should come to anyone as a result of our business.

Consistently ranked among the nation's largest building contractors by Engineering News-Record, our US business is a subsidiary of London-based Balfour Beatty plc (LSE: BBY).

Balfour Beatty is an equal opportunity employer that recognizes the value of a diverse workforce. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other criteria protected by federal, state or local law.