Staff Payroll Tax Processor

Location: Atlanta, Georgia, or Frisco, Texas, United States

Company

hirify.global is a financial technology platform providing products including TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp.

What you will do

• Resolve complex federal and state payroll tax notices, including multi-quarter, multi-state, and penalty assessment cases from intake through confirmed closure.
• Prepare and file amended federal and state payroll tax returns across more than 10 states, including Form 941-X, W-2c preparation, liability schedules, and SSA reconciliation.
• Trace payroll tax errors across pay periods and jurisdictions, determine the impact across affected quarters, and drive corrections to resolution.
• Monitor work in progress, identify aging cases and systemic blockers, and recommend corrective actions.
• Provide real-time support and structured coaching to less experienced payroll tax processors.
• Author, review, and approve SOPs and knowledge-base articles while contributing to quality assurance, process meetings, and cross-functional issue resolution.

Requirements

• 4+ years of payroll tax experience focused on tax defect resolution, notice response, amended returns, and payroll error correction across multiple states.
• Expert knowledge of federal and state payroll tax notices, penalty abatement requests, agency response letters, FICA, FUTA, FITW, deposit schedules, penalties, and interest.
• Hands-on experience preparing and approving Form 941-X, W-2c, and state payroll tax returns, including complex local requirements.
• Multi-state tax expertise covering reciprocal agreements, resident and nonresident taxation, SUI accounts, and local tax compliance.
• Experience as a lead, senior specialist, or SME, with demonstrated coaching or training of junior staff.
• Advanced Excel skills and strong written communication for reconciliations, audit trails, SOPs, and knowledge-base content. A degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business is preferred; equivalent experience is accepted.

Nice to have

• Certified Payroll Professional (CPP), with certification expected within 18 months of TP3 placement.
• FPC certification with 5+ years of demonstrated tax defect resolution experience.
• Enrolled Agent (EA) certification.
• Experience in a payroll service bureau, PEO, or multi-client payroll tax operations environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation package with performance-based rewards.
• Eligibility for cash bonus, equity rewards, and employee benefits under applicable plans and programs.
• Regular compensation comparisons across ethnicity and gender categories to support pay equity.