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