Payroll Tax Analyst

Company: The Boston Consulting Group GmbH
Location: Boston
Posted on: June 1, 2025

Job Description:

Locations: Atlanta - BostonWho We AreBoston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures-and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

What You'll DoOur mission is clear. We go deep to unlock insight and have the courage to act. We bring the right people together to challenge established thinking and drive transformation. We work with our clients to build the capabilities that enable organizations to achieve sustainable advantage. We are shaping the future. Together.We have embarked on an exciting journey of modernizing and transforming our US and Canada payroll functions, engaging a third-party consulting firm to uncover opportunities and develop a detailed roadmap. By rethinking structures, harmonizing processes, and automating key tasks with new technologies, we intend to create a simpler and more efficient operating model encouraging collaboration and flexibility for the payroll function to meet the evolving and growing needs of BCG.This role is responsible for moderate to complex-level Tax accounting/withholding, reporting, analysis, and audit activities to ensure the accurate and timely reporting of financial results for internal and external purposes, and to help provide work direction to team associates. This role is the technical and functional subject matter Tax expert and continually works with the team to identify opportunities for improvement and implements solutions.You're good at

• Analyzing and consistently take corrective steps on queries related to tax
• Calculating retroactive tax, gross to net calculations including tax withholding
• Reviewing and balance and release W-2 files
• Tax Data Integrity Assurance for tax filing
• Processing Improvement recommendations and implementations
• Processing W-2 Corrections and reissues in accordance with IRS regulations
• Payroll Tax Update Analysis/Testing
• Providing client support for Escalated Tax and Accounting issues
• Maintaining employee master tax data including tax data integrity assurance activities
• Processing mass tax updates
• Providing problem (SR) resolution support for tax related issues
• Assisting team leaders with complex payroll tax issues
• Analyzing gross to net calculations for accuracy including tax withholding calculations
• Reviewing Payroll Tax error reports and queries related to Tax
• Calculating workups retroactive tax
• Validating and balancing of tax data
• Reconciling payroll related balance sheet accounts (taxes)
• Maintaining employee tax recordsResponsibility Areas:
  • Accountable for partnering with the internal teams to deliver client service with quality
  • Accepted accounting principles and/or domestic tax code/law
  • Proactively looks for resolution of potential service delivery issues
  • Provides reports to internal teams as required
    
    What You'll Bring
    • Associates degree or comparable knowledge in payroll-related field
    • Minimum 3 years Payroll Tax experience
    • Strong attention to detail and execution
    • Strong verbal & written communication skills
    • Strong business acumen, e.g. ability to interpret and apply financial data/information to business decisions
    • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
    • Strong communication skills (written and verbal)
    • Strong business partnering skills
    • Detail-oriented, organized and capable of prioritizing workload to complete multiple tasks and meet aggressive deadlines
    • Ability to work collaboratively and cooperatively as a member of a team
    • Ability to work independently and apply sound judgment
    • Proficient in Microsoft Office: Windows, Excel and PowerPoint
    • ADP experience is a plusCandidates will be considered at the Analyst or Senior Analyst level, commensurate with experience.
      
      Who You'll Work WithMembers of our finance team are responsible for preserving the intellectual capital, assets, and integrity of BCG. We make a crucial impact on the firm's direction, performance, and risk-management models. Finance jobs include accounting and reporting, planning and analysis, tax and treasury, financial systems, payroll, and executive compensation
      
      Additional infoFormat Information:At BCG, our people and relationships are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that in-person work is essential to our culture, mentorship, and professional development. That's why we operate on a hybrid model, with the expectation that team members will be in the office 3 to 5 days per week. This role is designed for those who thrive in a dynamic, collaborative environment and is not intended for remote or virtual work.Compensation Information:Total compensation for this role includes base salary, annual discretionary performance bonus, contributions to BCG's Profit Sharing and Retirement Fund (PSRF), and a market leading benefits package described below.At BCG, we are committed to offering a comprehensive benefit program that includes everything our employees and their families need to be well and live life to the fullest. We pay the full cost of medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees - and their eligible family members.* That's zero dollars in premiums taken from employee paychecks.All of our plans provide best in class coverage:
      • Zero dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children
      • Low $10 (USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs
      • Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 in orthodontia benefits
      • Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually
      • Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities
      • Fully vested Profit Sharing Retirement Fund contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not, plus the option for employees to make personal contributions to a 401(k) plan
      • Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement
      • Generous paid time off including 12 holidays per year, an annual office closure between Christmas and New Years, and 15 vacation days per year (earned at 1.25 days per month)
      • Paid sick time on an as needed basis*Employees, spouses, and children are covered at no cost. Employees share in the cost of domestic partner coverage.
        
        Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
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