# Senior Specialist, Payroll Tax

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: O'Fallon, Missouri
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $85,000 - $132,000 USD
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Mastercard is seeking a Senior Specialist, Payroll Tax to lead payroll tax-related activities associated with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and business integrations.

The successful candidate will serve as the payroll tax subject matter expert throughout the M&A lifecycle, ensuring tax compliance, regulatory readiness, employee tax setup accuracy, and successful integration into payroll operations.

Key Responsibilities:

- Payroll Tax Due Diligence: Assess payroll tax profiles, registrations, and compliance status of acquired entities. Review existing payroll tax processes, controls, filing practices, and vendor relationships. Identify tax risks, liabilities, compliance exposures, and remediation requirements. Support integration planning by providing payroll tax impact assessments.

- Tax Registration & Entity Setup: Coordinate establishment of federal, state, provincial, and local tax registrations. Ensure tax IDs, withholding accounts, unemployment accounts, and local registrations are established accurately. Partner with Corporate Tax and Legal teams to address jurisdictional requirements. Manage tax account transitions during mergers, consolidations, and divestitures.

- Payroll Tax Implementation: Validate employee tax setup and election data conversions. Support payroll vendor implementations and integrations. Coordinate testing of tax calculations, filings, deposits, and reporting. Maintain audit-ready documentation for all implementation activities.

- Vendor & Stakeholder Management: Partner with Payroll Operations, Corporate Tax, Payroll vendors, & M&A COE team on implementation related activities. Serve as the payroll tax workstream lead within integration governance meetings. Provide status updates, risk assessments, and recommendations to leadership.

- Post-Go-Live Stabilization: Monitor payroll tax operations following implementation. Transition ongoing tax activities to payroll operations teams. Capture lessons learned and update implementation playbooks.

Qualifications:

- Strong expertise in U.S. Federal tax regulations, state withholding requirements, state unemployment insurance, local taxation, wage reporting requirements

- Experience with payroll systems such as ADP, Workday Payroll

- Strong analytical and reconciliation skills

- Ability to manage multiple implementation projects simultaneously

- Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, or divestitures

- Experience with multi-national payroll tax compliance

- Experience working with payroll tax vendors and outsourced payroll providers

- Knowledge of tax filing and wage reporting processes across multiple jurisdictions

In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting.

The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The pay range for this position in O'Fallon, Missouri is $85,000 - $132,000 USD.

## Skills

### Required
- U.S. Federal tax regulations
- state withholding requirements
- state unemployment insurance
- local taxation
- wage reporting requirements
- payroll systems
- ADP
- Workday Payroll
- analytical and reconciliation skills
- project management
- mergers and acquisitions
- multi-national payroll tax compliance
- payroll tax vendors

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