Quality Assurance Payroll Tax Compliance Specialist

Location: Hybrid role based in the Tampa, Florida office

Salary: $74,000–$93,000 per year

Company

hirify.global provides HR, payroll, and related business administration technology that helps companies manage their operations.

What you will do

• Perform recurring payroll tax compliance validations and reconciliations for federal, state, and local requirements.
• Investigate discrepancies, identify root causes, coordinate corrections, and verify accurate updates in systems and reports.
• Maintain complete, consistent, and audit-ready documentation of investigations, controls, findings, and resolutions.
• Support SOX and SOC controls, audits, compliance validations, and remediation of identified deficiencies.
• Partner with internal teams, third-party vendors, tax agencies, and audit stakeholders on system changes, implementations, data conversions, and user acceptance testing.
• Monitor quality metrics and improve reconciliation, reporting, documentation, and compliance processes using data, SQL, automation, and AI.

Requirements

• 5+ years of federal, state, and local payroll and payroll tax experience, including filing and reporting.
• Hands-on experience with payroll tax reconciliations, discrepancy investigation, root-cause analysis, and issue resolution.
• Experience with payroll tax software and systems, tax scheduling and filing tools, and tax authority research.
• Working knowledge of SQL and experience using queries for data analysis and validation.
• Experience supporting software enhancements, implementations, process improvements, data conversions, or user acceptance testing.
• Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, communication, and independent judgment skills in a regulated environment.

Nice to have

• MasterTax experience.
• PEO, payroll, or HR technology experience.
• Payroll accounting, audit, SOX, or SOC experience.
• FPC or CPP certification from PayrollOrg.
• Experience using automation or AI tools for payroll tax compliance and documentation.

Culture & Benefits

• Welcoming, casual, and supportive working environment.
• Benefits and wellness program offerings.
• Company retreats and opportunities to interact with leaders in the startup community.
• Values centered on camaraderie, openness, grit, integrity, and simplicity.
• Commitment to diversity, inclusion, and reasonable accommodations.