# Manager, Employment Tax

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: Gurgaon, India
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

This role is responsible for supporting global employment tax compliance, advisory, risk management, and project execution activities.

The role serves as a key technical resource and works closely with regional stakeholders and external advisors to ensure operational excellence and compliance across global employment tax processes.

Responsibilities:

- Support internal stakeholders on federal, state, and local employment tax compliance activities, such as reviewing tax notices, statutory tax filings, and reconciliations

- Assist in research to support tax positions, resolve multi-state withholding issues, reciprocity agreements, nonresident allocation questions, and cross-border tax implications

- Assist in taxation and reporting of equity compensation and incentive plans (RSUs, stock options, ESPP, ISIP-type plans) across jurisdictions, including year-end true-ups, and recharge arrangement considerations

- Provide tax guidance to cross-functional partners on the employment tax implications of compensation, benefits, travel & expense programs, and remote/flexible work arrangements globally

- Collaborate with stakeholders to develop processes and procedures to ensure accurate tax reporting and withholdings on employee compensation and benefits including long-term incentives and bonus plans

- Assist with tax authority notices and audits across jurisdictions, including gathering documentation and support related worker classification and permanent establishment risk assessments

- Partner with Payroll Operations and third-party payroll providers (e.g., ADP, Workday, and local vendors) to validate tax configurations, review payroll tax reconciliations, year-end reporting, and country-specific reporting requirements

- Support M&A due diligence and People & Capability’s integration activities

- Monitor changes in employment tax law across regions, analyze the impact on Mastercard and communicate changes with management

- Support SOX and financial statement audit requests related to payroll tax

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Tax, Law, or a related field

- Prior experience at a Big Four firm, multinational in-house tax function, or regional shared-services organization

- Solid working knowledge of federal and multi-state/ country payroll tax withholding, plus working knowledge of statutory employer payroll tax and social security obligations in US and other international jurisdictions

- Experience supporting tax authority audits (U.S. and/or international)

- Experience with equity compensation tax reporting and coordination with Stock Administration, and with global equity plan administration and multi-jurisdictional incentive plan tax reporting

- Track record of identifying and driving operational improvements and adopting market-standard methodologies to improve global compliance process efficiency and effectiveness

- Experience with payroll systems (e.g., ADP, Workday, SAP) and payroll tax engines

- Strong analytical, organizational, and cross-cultural written/verbal communication skills; comfort working across time zones and in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment

- Proficiency in calculations, tables, and automation tools to process and analyze large volumes of payroll tax data across multiple jurisdictions

## Skills

### Required
- Accounting
- Finance
- Tax
- Law
- Payroll
- Audit
- Equity Compensation
- Global Compliance

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