Payroll & Tax Specialist

Job Description:

Who We Are:
We’re Cart.com, one of the fastest growing commerce enablement companies in the world. We provide the digital and physical infrastructure that empowers thousands of leading B2B and B2C companies to unify commerce operations across channels and sell and fulfil anywhere their customers are.

We’re building toward a world where commerce has no bounds. Our enterprise-grade software, services and logistics infrastructure, including our own network of omnichannel fulfillment and distribution centers, enable merchants to navigate an increasingly complex operating landscape and drive efficient growth.

Our goal is to be the global backbone of commerce. To achieve it, we’re looking for entrepreneurial, innovative and determined teammates who are eager to help our growing base of customers simplify their commerce operations and seamlessly reach their own customers, wherever they are. Sound like you? We’d love to hear from you.

Cart.com Fast Facts:

• 6,000+ customers worldwide

• 1,600+ employees globally

• Our software lists $10+ trillion in product value across channels

• Our digital and physical operations support $8+ billion in Gross Merchandise Value

Our values:

Cart.com is building a company that is committed to living out these 6 core values:

• Be brand obsessed: Our lives are shaped by the brands we interact with daily. We obsess over the brands we serve, and about the things they care about.

• Think beyond the box: “We’ve always done it that way” is not a phrase uttered often at our office. We create creative solutions to complex problems.

• Don’t give up: We learn from our challenges and see them for what they are; great building blocks to an amazing brand story.

• Speak up: We communicate clearly and directly because we care deeply. Communication is the bedrock of our community.

• Work together: We’ve built a team that prides itself on diversity of thought and background. Collaboration is better with contrast.

• Remember to be human: We work hard, but we leave room for the people, places and things that we love.

This position is open to applicants or individuals who are located in or willing to move to AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, IA, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MS, NE, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WV

The Role:

We are looking for a meticulous Payroll & Tax Specialist to support the payroll operations of the People team that supports Cart.com’s people and Cart.com’s success as a company.

This role will be responsible for the People Payroll day-to-day duties that drive the implementation of solutions and strategies that ensure results and make an impact. This person will primarily support the execution of our Payroll roadmap that will result in automation, standardization, and centralization of HR processes and systems. We are looking for someone who can wear many hats – payroll analyst and subject matter expert, reporting guru, and excel wizard – and knows what hat to put on before having to be asked to do it.  

You know you will be successful in this role if you find joy in helping others, offer clear and concise communication, and your north star is efficiency. You like to connect with other people and figure out how you can improve the process to make their lives easier. You are thorough, but quick on your feet, and you can multi-task like no one else.

What You’ll Do:

In partnership with the wider People team, execute and iterate on the Payroll Operations roadmap that will result in automation, standardization, and centralization of HR processes and systems.

Payroll:

• Perform the collection, calculation, and entering of payroll data.

• Address employee questions/concerns relative to pay and time and attendance.

• Update payroll records and prepare payroll reports.

• Contribute to the development and documentation of repeatable and scalable payroll processes and employee-facing guidelines and procedures.

• Work with Accounting to maintain accurate job costing and G/L records

• Produce and analyze employee data reports

Tax:

• Manage administration of payroll tax accounts, filings, and new account openings.

• Balance taxes from Workday to ADP

• Balance and file quarterly taxes

• Validate and reconcile tax rates

• Produce and analyze company tax reports

• Multi-state tax experience

Administration:

• Maintain the integrity and confidentiality of human resource records, forms, files, and policies.

Employee Experience:

• Maintain knowledge of payroll trends, best practices, regulatory changes

• Assist employees with general People Payroll questions and ensure exceptional customer service.

• Support employee onboarding and offboarding processes and support coordination

Who You Are:

• You have strong business acumen with ability to partner and collaborate with HR colleagues, functional specialists and internal clients.

• You have functional knowledge of federal and state employment laws and compliance.

• You possess solid time-management, prioritization, written and verbal communication skills.

• You are able to maintain strict confidentiality, establish trust and credibility and act with complete integrity; aptitude and proven ability to resolve conflicts creatively and collaboratively.

• You are able to work well independently AND collaboratively as part of an interdisciplinary team

• You thrive in a fast-paced environment and work through ambiguity

• You consider yourself highly detail-oriented and organized.

• You have strong Excel skills

What You’ve Done:

• You have 5+ years’ of progressive payroll experience in a dynamic, fast-paced, rapidly growing environment.

• You have experience using a Workday and ADP Smart Compliance for payroll

• You have payroll tax and compliance experience.

Nice to Haves: 

• You have a bachelor's degree in human resources, business, or related field.

• You have experience in a People Operations role in the tech industry, ideally having observed M&A integrations.

• You have experience working in a rapidly-scaling startup.

• You have Working knowledge of employment laws and compliance in all U.S. states.

Currently, Cart.com does not intend to hire candidates who will need, now or in the future, Cart.com sponsorship through any non-immigrant visa category such as the H-1B, H-1B1, E-3, O-1, or TN.

All hiring is contingent on eligibility to work in the United States. We are unable to sponsor or transfer visas for applicants.

Cart.com is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.