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Payroll Tax Accountant (Mid/Senior)
Finance & Accounting | livermore, CA | 11/26/2024
Job Code: C02.3 Accountant 3
Organization: Chief Financial Officer
Position Type: Career Indefinite
Security Clearance: Anticipated DOE Q clearance (requires U.S. citizenship and a federal background investigation)
Drug Test: Required for external applicant(s) selected for this position (includes testing for use of marijuana)
Medical Exam: Not applicable
Company Description
Join us and make YOUR mark on the World!
Are you interested in joining some of the brightest talent in the world to strengthen the United States’ security? Come join Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) where our employees apply their expertise to create solutions for BIG ideas that make our world a better place.
We are committed to a diverse and equitable workforce with an inclusive culture that values and celebrates the diversity of our people, talents, ideas, experiences, and perspectives. This is essential to innovation and creativity for continued success of the Laboratory’s mission.
This position may offer a hybrid schedule, which includes the flexibility to work from home one or more days per week, after a probationary period. The specifics of the hybrid schedule, including the exact number of days required in the office and virtual work options may vary based on the needs of the team and the organization.
Pay Range
$107,550 - $133,524 Annual (C02.3)
This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.
Job Description
We have an opening for a Tax Accountant to work in a dynamic and fast paced environment. You will be responsible for the preparation, analysis, maintenance, and review of complex institutional accounting, financial, and tax reporting information. This position is in the General Accounting & Tax Compliance division of the Finance Department in the Office of the CFO.
You Will
- Reconcile, adjust, and verify the preparation and the filing of Laboratory payroll tax returns with a third-party provider, including federal and multi-state withholding taxes for employees in many states and multiple tax jurisdictions.
- Provide lead oversight and maintain the engagement relationship with the payroll tax third party filing provider and the Laboratory’s Payroll group.
- Ensure compliance with payroll tax regulations and laws.
- Serve as a Tax liaison for taxing authorities as it pertains to payroll tax and to participate and lead as appropriate on long-term projects requiring analysis and complex solutions to payroll tax-related problems and recommendations and implementation for appropriate courses of action.
- Independently initiate, research and respond to questions concerning federal and state withholding issues. Prepare position papers and recommendations.
- Maintain the Laboratory's Employee Foreign National Tax Program which includes reviewing, applying, monitoring, and advising foreign national employees on applicable tax treaties and other tax withholding issues. Review foreign national employee population for proper tax treatment. Coordinate the independent foreign national tax database with the Lab’s internal Payroll program. Prepare and file the annual 1042 with the IRS.
- Advise and provide analysis and research on other areas of tax expertise and experience for institutional or partnership tax including but not limited to sales tax, property tax, expatriate tax, partnership tax, or other state, local or federal tax.
- Reconcile tax account balance sheet ledger accounts and prepare journal entries. Participate in complex analysis requiring interpretation of accounting data while advising and formulating recommendations for proper accounting and tax treatment.
- Assist with audits related to payroll tax compliance.
- Prepare various ad hoc reports.
- Perform other assigned duties.
Qualifications
- Ability to secure and maintain a U.S. DOE Q-level security clearance which requires U.S. citizenship.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Economics or equivalent combination of related experience, education, and training in the finance/accounting/tax field.
- Demonstrated complete knowledge and understanding of payroll tax regulations and compliance, and accounting theory.
- Experience preparing and filing multi-state payroll tax returns; experience in tax research and interpretation of tax laws.
- Significant experience applying problem-solving and analytical skills to solve complex issues requiring mature judgment, discretion and tact, and ability to successfully negotiate desirable outcomes and experience making effective and timely decisions.
- Significant experience researching, compiling, and analyzing complex financial data and information and developing, applying, and interpreting financial policies and procedures while maintaining tax compliance. This includes the use of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
- Advanced organization skills and expertise using interpersonal communication skills, both verbal and written, to effectively explain, negotiate, persuade, and build consensus among diverse stakeholders; experience establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with all levels of personnel.
- Advanced experience with computer-based spreadsheets and report-generation applications. (e.g., Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
Qualifications We Desire
- CPA or other relevant certification.
- Complete knowledge and understanding of Cost Accounting Standards (CAS), Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), financial policies, and procedures.
- Complete knowledge of foreign national employee's taxation requirements.
Additional Information
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All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Position Information
This is a Career Indefinite position, open to Lab employees and external candidates.
Why Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory?
- Included in 2024 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor!
- Flexible Benefits Package
- 401(k)
- Relocation Assistance
- Education Reimbursement Program
- Flexible schedules (*depending on project needs)
- Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accountability (IDEA) - visit https://www.llnl.gov/diversity
- Our core beliefs - visit https://www.llnl.gov/diversity/our-values
- Employee engagement - visit https://www.llnl.gov/diversity/employee-engagement
Security Clearance
This position requires a Department of Energy (DOE) Q-level clearance. If you are selected, we will initiate a Federal background investigation to determine if you meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or matter. Also, all L or Q cleared employees are subject to random drug testing. Q-level clearance requires U.S. citizenship.
Pre-Employment Drug Test
External applicant(s) selected for this position must pass a post-offer, pre-employment drug test. This includes testing for use of marijuana as Federal Law applies to us as a Federal Contractor.
Wireless and Medical Devices
Per the Department of Energy (DOE), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory must meet certain restrictions with the use and/or possession of mobile devices in Limited Areas. Depending on your job duties, you may be required to work in a Limited Area where you are not permitted to have a personal and/or laboratory mobile device in your possession. This includes, but not limited to cell phones, tablets, fitness devices, wireless headphones, and other Bluetooth/wireless enabled devices.
If you use a medical device, which pairs with a mobile device, you must still follow the rules concerning the mobile device in individual sections within Limited Areas. Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities require separate approval. Hearing aids without wireless capabilities or wireless that has been disabled are allowed in Limited Areas, Secure Space and Transit/Buffer Space within buildings.
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