- Assistant Director For Tax And Accounting
- University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, United States
- jobs
- 2 weeks ago
jobs description
Position: ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR TAX AND ACCOUNTING
As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state, and around the world. UW employees bring their energy, creative problem-solving skills to their work and are dedicated to building stronger minds and a healthier world. UW is Committed to attracting and retaining a diverse staff, your experiences, perspectives, and unique identities will be honored at the University of Washington.
Together, our community strives to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable, and welcoming.
Finance, Planning and Budgeting (FPB) encompasses the major central financial, planning, and budgeting functions for the University of Washington, including:
• Finance & Budget Strategy
• Institutional Analytics & Data Support
• Policy, Planning & State Operations
• University Business Services The Assistant Director for Tax and Accounting, reporting to the Payroll Director, will be responsible for leading a dedicated team in managing payroll operations and serving as the primary contact for resolving customer payroll inquiries. Key responsibilities include overseeing payroll calculations and data entry, managing garnishments, administering the Paid Family and Medical Leave program, handling unemployment security payments and reporting, and ensuring compliance with tax withholding and reporting requirements across multiple states and federal programs.
Additional duties encompass navigating foreign national tax treaties as well as performing bank and general ledger reconciliations.
To achieve the established objectives, the Assistant Director will mentor and guide the team to uphold the highest standards of accuracy and compliance. This role involves supervising payroll support staff and ensuring that all payroll activities and policies align with university, state, and federal regulations while effectively addressing customer needs. Candidates for this position must possess comprehensive expertise in payroll, tax, and accounting practices.
A thorough understanding of relevant compliance and regulatory standards, along with proficiency in audit and control reporting, is essential for success in this role.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Strategy Development
• Counsel and collaborate with leadership on strategic direction and process improvement options for customer support and success
• Develop and propose solutions for system change decisions understanding the impacts of changes to Workday processes to incorporate new laws or regulations
• Create highly complex environment where interdependencies including downstream impacts need to be anticipated and understood
• Deliver strategies, short-term and long-term, to maintain compliance with union contracts, requirements of state and federal agencies, laws and regulations (RCWs, WACs and State Administrative and Accounting Manual, IRS, etc.)
• Employ knowledge to new emerging initiatives to determine change impact to business processes, systems and processes while evaluating risk to the University Leadership and Team Management
• Oversee the Payroll support staff that complete the majority of Payroll transactions for the University
• Manage and coach a team, and their workload through collaboration, cross-training and distribution of day-to-day responsibilities as required to meet established service standards
• Responsible for staff development, career enrichment and any necessary corrective action
• Ensures team members are sufficiently trained to meet established service standards
• Review financial accounting transactions, journal vouchers, management records and internal accounting reports for completeness, accuracy and compliance to ensure data integrity
• Approve payroll transactions for payment
• Establish mechanisms to review and follow up on assigned work within unit, to ensure accuracy and timeliness of procurement to meet customer needs
• Monitors team performance, identifies patterns in issues/inquiries and promotes improved customer service through regular updates to knowledge management content
Campus Leadership
• Monitor team performance, identify patterns in case escalations/resolutions and promotes…