Who We Are

At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.

We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.

We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.

Our Values

If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.

Who You Are

You are a highly skilled tax professional who executes and validates complex state tax amendments to drive operational excellence. You dependably execute complex and routine tasks to ensure client compliance and filing accuracy across all jurisdictions. This role involves cross-functional collaboration to resolve complicated data issues and includes direct communication with federal, state, and local tax authorities to research and resolve amended tax return issues. You serve as the team's subject matter expert on process execution and complex reconciliation, helping to ensure the integrity of the entire amendment workflow.

As the Senior Payroll Tax Amendment Specialist, you will be a subject matter expert in the daily operations and execution of tax amendments, driving operational excellence. You will dependably execute both routine and less typical tasks to ensure client compliance. This role involves cross-functional collaboration to resolve customer issues and communication with federal, state, and local jurisdictions, all while providing guidance and support to your team.

Your Success Profile

What You Will Work On:

• Data Validation and Reconciliation
  • Execute in-depth tax amendments and review adjustments to justify amendment filings and validate data sources. Focus on key variances, such as dollar value discrepancies or missing employees, between original and amended returns.
  • Perform robust reconciliation for amended quarters, ensuring new workbooks clearly tie out to original filings and include complete employee-level reconciliation tabs.
  • Reconcile original tax filings, payments, and amendment reports within the tax management software against actual state submissions, ensuring accuracy and addressing historical discrepancies.
  • Accurately complete standardized templates within workbooks for capturing all necessary amendment-related information.
  • Collaborate closely with accounting, legal, and compliance teams to ensure all amendment filings adhere to regulatory requirements and internal policies.
  • Implement and maintain robust data validation checks to identify and correct discrepancies proactively, minimizing the need for future amendments.
  • Develop and refine reconciliation processes to ensure seamless integration of data across various systems and accurate reporting.
  • Regularly audit data sources and reconciliation workbooks to guarantee data integrity and compliance with evolving tax regulations.

• Process Execution and Triage
  • Create and file amended returns as needed using the payroll tax software across all Federal, State & Local jurisdictions as needed. This includes W2C’s and amended 1099’s (NEC and MISC).
  • Execute the amendment filing lifecycle from end-to-end, including rigorous workbook review, tax management software posting, and final filing preparation and submission. This involves managing the entire process of preparing and submitting tax amendments, ensuring accuracy and compliance at each stage.
  • Develop and utilize a common error cheat sheet to efficiently triage and resolve the high volume of reconciliation issues and error logs from tax management and payroll software. Create and maintain a quick reference guide to identify and fix common errors, streamlining the troubleshooting process for discrepancies found in tax and payroll systems.
  • Manually retrieve and merge legacy multi-file exports from payroll systems to reconstruct historical files, which are vital for tie-outs and audit trails. Access, combine, and organize older payroll data from various sources to create complete historical records, essential for reconciling accounts and supporting audits.
  • Research, resolve, and follow up on amended