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Senior Manager, Payroll Tax

United States, Bethesda 90800.00 - 110000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted January 15, 2026
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Job Description

The Senior Manager, Payroll Tax & Garnishments oversees payroll tax operations for both U.S. and Canadian entities, ensuring accurate system maintenance and timely responses to tax-related inquiries. This role also ensures garnishment processing is consistently compliant with federal and state regulations, mitigating the risk of penalties or default judgments.

Job Responsibility

  • Manages the outsourced ADP payroll tax function and garnishments to ensure compliance
  • supports with investigating tax issues
  • Assists ADP tax team to complete year-end processes within ADP system
  • complete YE processes and adjustments in PeopleSoft
  • Manages quarter-end processes and quarterly tax updates from PeopleSoft
  • runs test payroll runs in PeopleSoft to ensure quarterly tax updates are completed successfully, coordinating with IT to move updates to production
  • Participates in systems upgrades and testing for tax and garnishment updates, serving as the liaison between the company and the third-party garnishment processor, and resolving and payroll issues
  • participates in system upgrade design and process testing and troubleshoots various HRMS & Payroll issues within PeopleSoft HRMS
  • Supports weekly tax transmissions to a third-party tax processing service and ensures timely and accurate tax funding on a weekly basis
  • Performs third-party sick pay adjustments and TEFRA adjustments
  • Assists with HR Help Desk inquiries such as job verifications and unemployment claims
  • works with ADP and Equifax service team as necessary
  • Gathers data for internal and external audits related to payroll tax
  • responds to tax related inquiries from agencies and team members
  • Evaluates garnishment processes to identify and correct inefficiencies
  • manage implementation of processes improvements.
  • Coordinates the reconciliation of garnishment disbursement files and manages funding requests in collaboration with Treasury.
  • Works with the Legal department to resolve garnishment legal issues including default judgments
  • works with Payroll HRMS to ensure that reinstatements are processed timely and correctly for union and non-union associates
  • Maintains all files and correspondence with third-party vendor and respective law offices, tax jurisdictions, IRS, bankruptcy courts, etc.

Requirements

  • 2 years of experience supervising a team of payroll professionals engaged in executing payroll tax and garnishment programs
  • 6-8 years of payroll experience engaged in delivering payroll tax and garnishment programs
  • A bachelor’s degree in a program related to the functional area can count for 3 of the 6-year requirement
  • An MBA or a master’s level degree in a program related to the functional area can count for an additional 2 years of 6-year requirement
  • 3-5 years of Hospitality, F&B and/or Retail experience
  • Must have at least 4 years of experience processing payroll in a high-volume environment
  • Training that leads to very strong knowledge of state, federal, and provincial payroll tax and garnishment laws, as well as wage and hour regulations
  • Requires PeopleSoft HRMS experience including Query, implementation or upgrade experience a plus
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office
  • Requires the ability to maintain confidential data and ensure that correspondence with sensitive data is done in a manner that adheres to compliant methodology
  • Exceptional customer service skills and a keen eye for detail
  • Possesses strong business acumen and a forward-thinking approach to payroll management, with the ability to evaluate long-term impacts and drive alignment with organizational goals.
  • Demonstrated history of understanding the needs of the business, stakeholders, the employee population and individual circumstances
  • Demonstrated history of maintaining positive work environments through coaching, developing, and leading teams to achieve common goals

What we offer

  • Health, dental and vision insurance
  • Generous paid time off (vacation, flex or sick)
  • *401(k) retirement plan with company match
  • *Company paid life insurance
  • *Tuition reimbursement
  • Employee assistance program
  • Training and exciting career growth opportunities
  • Referral program – refer a friend and earn a bonus
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