Job reference #6170_8598066

Senior Statutory Research Compliance Specialist

Join us as we undertake one of ADP’s most ambitious transformation initiatives ever. We’re building a team from of the most elite, game-changing technologists and asking them to reinvent payroll for tens of millions of employees worldwide. We are looking for a senior-level Statutory Research Compliance Specialist with experience and expertise supporting payroll software compliance through research and interaction with statutory agencies.

This key role will serve as a hands-on subject-matter-expert on statutory compliance in the payroll and tax withholding domain for multiple product development teams developing ADP’s new global payroll engine.

• Provides mission critical statutory guidance and support for highly complex requirements for payroll, payroll tax and payroll tax reporting.
• Monitors, assesses, interprets, analyzes and communicates statutory requirements for US Federal, States, Territories (PR, Guam, VI, etc.), Locals and/or Canada Federal, Provinces, Territories. Research may include international payroll, human resources, benefits or other related assignments in support of ADP’s global businesses.
• Recognizes and communicates industry trends and forecasts future impacts.
• Keeps Product Owners and Developer informed and ahead of statutory/legislative items that affect payroll, payroll tax and payroll tax reporting.
• Assesses statutory impact and makes recommendations for implementation.
• He/she is a statutory subject matter expert.
• Reviews high level impact analysis documents and assesses work effort and provides resourcing estimates.
• Audits highly complex statutory change forms.
• Performs research to resolve or clarify highly complex statutory issues.

Responsibilities

* Uses resources to seek out statutory information to ensure that Next Gen Payroll team has what they need to maintain compliance. May include interpreting and tracking of pending legislation, jurisdictional website searches, tax publication and newspaper reviews, etc. to keep abreast of payroll, payroll tax and payroll tax reporting trends and issues that may potentially have statutory impact to ADP’s products.

* Ensures that statutory items/requirements are communicated quickly and efficiently throughout the Next Gen Payroll team. Attends partner statutory peer reviews on implementation of statutory changes. Uses experience to consult on the systems analysis and design approach.

* Product Support – Supports statutory related inquiries and reviews and resolves highly complex payroll, payroll tax and payroll tax reporting related inquiries.

* Special Assignments / Projects – May handle/lead special projects/programs. Some examples: Year-End Planning, Taxability studies, evaluation of processes and procedures, support of internal system or process needs. May be required to conduct statutory research, submit and present a white paper (presentation) on findings.

Requirements

* >12 years related experience in statutory compliance research.

* Strong problem solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job

* Skilled at working effectively with cross functional teams in a matrix organization

* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

* Excellent organization and facilitation skills.

* MS/BS degree in Business, Tax, Accounting or equivalent required.

* Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) certification preferred.

 

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