[Hiring] Payroll Tax Lead @Curana Health

Role Description

The Payroll Tax Lead serves as a senior payroll tax subject matter expert within the payroll team, responsible for payroll tax compliance and operations across a complex, multi-state workforce. This role ensures accurate and timely employee and employer payroll tax withholding, deposits, filings, reconciliations, registrations, amendments, and year-end reporting.

Working closely with Payroll, People Systems, Finance, and external payroll tax vendors, the Payroll Tax Lead will:

• Resolve complex payroll tax matters.
• Strengthen controls.
• Ensure payroll tax processes and systems remain compliant and scalable.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of payroll tax experience in a complex, multi-state environment, with strong knowledge of federal, state, and local payroll tax laws and regulations.
• Experience across payroll tax filings, reconciliations, registrations, amendments, agency notices, and year-end reporting.
• Experience working with enterprise payroll platform and payroll tax providers.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Requirements

• Workday Payroll experience.
• ADP payroll and payroll tax experience.
• Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, or large-scale organizational changes.
• Healthcare or other highly regulated industry experience.
• CPP (Certified Payroll Professional) certification or similar credential.