Senior Payroll Tax Consultant

Our client, a well-established, nationally recognized organization is seeking a highly experienced Senior Payroll Tax Consultant with the ability to drive issues to resolution quickly for an urgent, short-term contract engagement. This role will focus on resolving complex, multi-jurisdictional payroll tax challenges resulting from a recent corporate separation. The consultant will be responsible for establishing compliant statutory tax accounts under a newly formed EIN, addressing legacy unemployment and withholding tax issues, and working directly with state and local tax authorities to bring all jurisdictions into full compliance.
Job Title: Senior Payroll Tax Consultant
Location: Remote
Pay Rate: $65+/hour (W2, based on experience)
Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the expedited setup and correction of statutory payroll tax accounts, including SIT, SUI, city, and local taxes, across all jurisdictions where the organization has nexus or mandatory withholding requirements.
• Resolve complex SUI account ownership and transfer issues related to an EIN transition following a corporate split, including direct communication with state agencies.
• Serve as the primary escalation point with state and local tax authorities to address rejected filings, conflicting account numbers, penalties, notices, and erroneous fines.
• Investigate and remediate legacy tax exposure associated with a repurposed EIN, ensuring accurate registrations, filings, and reconciliations moving forward.
• Pursue recovery or proper reallocation of payroll tax funds held in legacy accounts where feasible, while documenting outcomes and stabilizing compliance processes.

• Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
• Minimum of 7 years of related experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience resolving complex payroll tax, unemployment insurance, and statutory withholding issues across multiple U.S. jurisdictions.
• Demonstrated success working directly with state and local tax agencies to resolve disputed accounts, filings rejections, penalties, and compliance roadblocks.
• Ability to engage immediately and work independently in a fast-paced environment.

• Optional Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k.
• Weekly pay with direct deposit.
• Consultant Care Support.
• Free Training to upgrade your skills.
• Dedicated Career Partner to help you achieve your career goals.

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Jefferson Wells ( www.jeffersonwells.com ) is a professional services firm delivering solutions in Finance & Accounting, Internal Audit, Risk & Compliance and Tax. We provide project consulting, integrated resourcing, and executive search. Our people leverage their extensive industry & technical experience to deliver practical and actionable solutions. Our tailored solutions and flexible delivery model, ranging from standalone projects and integrated teams through to full outsource, results in business acceleration for our clients. Our experience & independent solutions combined with practical and proven methodologies drives a lower relative cost of delivery. We serve clients, including Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies, from offices worldwide leveraging the workforce capabilities of the ManpowerGroup. Jefferson Wells is an Equal Opportunity Employer.