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Tax & Payroll Operations Lead
Skills
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What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- 4-6+ years in payroll or tax operations
- Demonstrated expertise in payroll tax compliance and operations
- Experience with filings and remittances
- Experience resolving tax notices
- Experience with corrections, amendments, and reconciliations
- Strong judgment and escalation instincts
- Track record of process improvement
- Startup or high-growth company background
- Strong communication skills
- AI-forward mindset
- Genuine learner
Nice to have
- Startup instincts
- Scalable mindset
- Ambiguity tolerance
- Cross-functional
- Detail-oriented
Day to day
- Own filing payment operations end-to-end for assigned jurisdictions, including setup, verification, troubleshooting, and remediation.
- Diagnose complex tax notices by tracing root causes across filings, payments, agency systems, and internal workflows.
- Drive reconciliations and corrections for misapplied payments, reversals, reissues, underpayments, and overpayments while escalating risks thoughtfully.
- Partner with Product, R&D, and cross-functional ops teams to improve tooling, validations, automation, documentation, and workflow reliability.
- Identify recurring payment and notice patterns, then turn them into scalable process improvements that reduce risk and improve partner experience.