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Voya Financial

Payroll & Tax Lead - Compliance

Posted 12 Days Ago
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In-Office
3 Locations
85K-142K Annually
Senior level
In-Office
3 Locations
85K-142K Annually
Senior level
This role leads payroll compliance and audits, ensuring accurate service delivery, correcting errors, and advising on complex payroll and tax matters. It involves training team members and driving automation in payroll processes.
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Together we fight for everyone’s opportunity for a better financial future.

We will do this together — with customers, partners and colleagues. We will fight for others, not against: We will stand up for and champion everyone’s access to opportunities. The status quo is not good enough … we believe every individual and every community deserves access to financial opportunities. We are determined to support both individuals and communities in reaching a better financial future.  We know that reaching this future depends on our actions today.

Like our Purpose Statement, Voya believes in being bold and committed to action.  We are committed to a work environment where the differences that we are born with — and those we acquire throughout our lives — are understood, valued and intentionally pursued. We believe that our employees own our culture and have a responsibility to foster an environment where we all feel comfortable bringing our whole selves to work. Purposefully bringing our differences together to positively influence our culture, serve our clients and enrich our communities is essential to our vision.

Are you ready to join a company with a strong purpose and a winning culture? Start your Voyage – Apply Now

Profile Summary:

This role requires deep knowledge of multistate tax withholding, wage and hour, benefits and equity regulations as related to payroll compliance and auditing. Serves as a subject matter expert ensuring the HR Operations/Payroll operation is compliant based on SOX, tax jurisdiction regulations, internal policies, processes, and programs. Responsible for team members’ ongoing execution and continuous improvement of service delivery, ensuring all payroll and employment tax transactional services are provided within agreed SLAs.

Profile Description:

  • Responsible for day-to-day compliance and audit leadership of the payroll and employment tax service delivery, ensuring timely, accurate and responsive service. Work with payroll team members to correct any errors in a timely manner and compliant federal and state regulations.

  • Utilizes technical tax and payroll expertise and judgement to solve problems. Leverages technical skills and analytic thinking to solve problems.

  • Perform audit of manual payroll entries entered into Workday HRIS for accuracy and compliance with internal controls during payroll cycle.

  • Drive progress towards automation of payroll audits.

  • Perform periodic and annual reconciliations of deferred compensation, pension, workers compensation. Serve as the point of contact for internal or external audits, preparation, and timely responses. This role will work with various departments throughout the organization related to payroll compliance.

  • Coordinating with Tax Compliance/Reporting team, file New York quarterly NYS-45 returns.

  • Coach, and train payroll team members on compliance related matters, new policies and procedures. Provide continuous feedback to peers, management and internal and external partners about trends and opportunities for improvement.

  • Independently counsels Executives and employees on complex payroll and tax matters.,

  • Research and resolve complex pay and tax issues, i.e., vesting/taxation of deferred compensation and equity, multistate withholding calculations, etc.

  • Subject matter expert on payroll and employment tax advising on strategic issues, new initiatives and complex projects. Participates in testing of new system implementations, updates and annual events, i.e., year-end cycle, annual enrollment, annual compensation/equity vesting cycle.

  • Maintain currency with Workday Payroll roadmap with eye towards adopting features that ensure payroll accuracy.

  • Functional area expert utilizing knowledge of interrelated departments and processes. Analyzes trends to improve service delivery and identify improvement opportunities. Presents to department management, including implementation options and recommendations.

  • Define approach for maintaining and improving procedural documentation.

  • Maintain effective working relationships with all management levels, within and outside HR Operations.

  • Performs other duties and special projects or responsibilities as assigned.

Knowledge & Experience:

  • 8 – 10+ years of payroll and employment tax experience in a publicly traded company.

  • 5+ years of complex multistate payroll and tax experience. Equity payroll experience preferred.

  • CPP designation preferred.

  • Superior analytical skills including ability to independently formulate recommendations based on metrics.

  • Superior proficiency in Workday for complex payroll operational processes.

  • Superior judgement when dealing with highly confidential information.

  • Strong interpersonal, communication and project management skills. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

  • Superior organizational skills, flexibility, and the ability to multitask, including assisting team members with prioritization in absence of management. Ability to facilitate meetings independently.

  • Proven experience with leading training and documentation development and delivery.

  • Ability and personal confidence to influence and diplomatically lead others, including stakeholders at the executive level.

  • Advanced user of Microsoft Office, particularly PowerPoint, Word, and Excel (includes V-Lookups and complex data analysis)

Compensation Pay Disclosure:

Voya is committed to pay that’s fair and equitable, which means comparable pay for comparable roles and responsibilities.

The below annual base salary range reflects the expected hiring range(s) for this position in the location(s) listed. In addition to base salary, Voya offers incentive opportunities (i.e., annual cash incentives, sales incentives, and/or long-term incentives) based on the role to reward the achievement of annual performance objectives. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Voya Financial is willing to pay at the time of this posting.

Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted salary range based upon the candidate’s geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

$84,930 - $141,560 USD

Be Well. Stay Well.

Voya provides the resources that can make a difference in your lives. To us, this means thriving physically, financially, socially and emotionally. Voya benefits are designed to help you do just that. That’s why we offer an array of plans, programs, tools and resources with one goal in mind: To help you and your family be well and stay well.

What We Offer

  • Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
  • 401(k) Savings plan – with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
  • Voya Retirement Plan – employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
  • Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
  • Paid time off – including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
  • Paid volunteer time — 40 hours per calendar year

Learn more about Voya benefits (download PDF)

Critical Skills

At Voya, we have identified the following critical skills which are key to success in our culture:

  • Customer Focused: Passionate drive to delight our customers and offer unique solutions that deliver on their expectations.
  • Critical Thinking: Thoughtful process of analyzing data and problem solving data to reach a well-reasoned solution.
  • Team Mentality: Partnering effectively to drive our culture and execute on our common goals.
  • Business Acumen: Appreciation and understanding of the financial services industry in order to make sound business decisions.
  • Learning Agility: Openness to new ways of thinking and acquiring new skills to retain a competitive advantage.

Learn more about Critical Skills

Equal Employment Opportunity

Voya Financial is an equal-opportunity employer. Voya Financial provides equal opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other status protected by state or local law.

Reasonable Accommodations

Voya is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Voya will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please reference resources for applicants with disabilities.

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Top Skills

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Microsoft Office (Word
PowerPoint
Workday

Voya Financial Braintree, Massachusetts, USA Office

30 Braintree Hill Office Park, Braintree, MA, United States, 02184

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