Crowe
Payroll Tax Analyst and Garnishment Specialist
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Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here. At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, we’re trusted to deliver results. We embrace you for who you are, care about your well‑being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80‑year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That’s why we invest in innovative ideas, such as AI‑enabled insights, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and help shape the future of our industry.
Location: Livingston, NJ & New York City Metropolitan Area. Wage range: $64,800.00 – $125,000.00 (Livingston, NJ) & $130,000.00 – $170,000.00 (NYC).
Job Description Crowe is a global consulting and accounting firm dedicated to delivering smart, data‑driven decisions that create lasting value. We foster an inclusive, collaborative, and growth‑minded culture. We are seeking an experienced Payroll Tax Analyst & Garnishment Specialist to support multi‑state payroll tax compliance and garnishment administration across our organization.
Position Summary The Payroll Tax Analyst & Garnishment Specialist ensures the accuracy and compliance of multi‑state payroll taxes, maintains unemployment (SUI) rate data, and oversees quarterly and annual tax reconciliations and filings. This role also leads the processing of court‑ordered deductions—child support, tax levies, bankruptcy orders—while managing the payroll platform garnishment module and ensuring timely and accurate disbursements to agencies. The ideal candidate is detail‑oriented, compliance‑focused, and able to manage high‑volume, complex payroll tax and garnishment processes.
Key Responsibilities
Manage multi-state payroll tax setup, maintenance, and compliance across federal, state, and local jurisdictions.
Maintain and update SUI (State Unemployment Insurance) rates and ensure accurate application.
Reconcile quarterly and annual payroll tax filings, supporting audits and correcting discrepancies as needed.
Monitor tax notices, resolve agency inquiries, and ensure accurate remittance and reporting.
Validate tax data within payroll systems to ensure accuracy and compliance.
Process child support orders, tax levies, creditor garnishments, and bankruptcy deductions.
Manage all garnishment activity within the payroll system garnishment module, including setup, processing, and terminations.
Ensure timely and accurate agency payments and responses to wage order requests.
Communicate with employees regarding garnishment questions while maintaining confidentiality.
Partner with legal, HR, and payroll teams on compliance requirements and complex cases.
Basic Qualifications
3+ years of experience in payroll tax administration and/or garnishment processing within a multi‑state environment.
Working knowledge of federal, state, and local payroll tax laws and wage garnishment regulations.
Experience reconciling quarterly and annual tax filings (e.g., Forms 941, W‑2, SUI filings).
Hands‑on experience with ADP Workforce Now or a similar enterprise payroll system, including tax and garnishment modules.
Strong analytical and reconciliation skills with exceptional attention to detail.
Ability to interpret court orders and agency notices accurately.
Excellent communication and customer‑service skills, with a high level of discretion and confidentiality.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in a professional services, multi‑entity, or large‑scale payroll environment.
Intermediate to advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, formulas, data validation).
Familiarity with agency portals and tax research resources.
We appreciate talent from all over the United States and are willing to consider candidates who may not be located near a Crowe office location for this role/opening.
Benefits Your exceptional people experience starts here. At Crowe, we care about our people and offer employees a comprehensive total rewards package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you!
How You Can Grow We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations.
More About Crowe Crowe (www.crowe.com) is one of the largest public accounting, consulting and technology firms in the United States. Crowe uses its deep industry expertise to provide audit services to public and private entities while also helping clients reach their goals with tax, advisory, risk and performance services. Crowe is recognized as one of the country’s best places to work.
Crowe LLP provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Crowe will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act.
In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. Crowe is not sponsoring for work authorization at this time.
Seniority level: Not Applicable
Employment type: Full‑time
Job function: Accounting/Auditing and Finance; Industries: Accounting, Financial Services, IT Services and IT Consulting
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Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here. At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, we’re trusted to deliver results. We embrace you for who you are, care about your well‑being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80‑year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That’s why we invest in innovative ideas, such as AI‑enabled insights, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and help shape the future of our industry.
Location: Livingston, NJ & New York City Metropolitan Area. Wage range: $64,800.00 – $125,000.00 (Livingston, NJ) & $130,000.00 – $170,000.00 (NYC).
Job Description Crowe is a global consulting and accounting firm dedicated to delivering smart, data‑driven decisions that create lasting value. We foster an inclusive, collaborative, and growth‑minded culture. We are seeking an experienced Payroll Tax Analyst & Garnishment Specialist to support multi‑state payroll tax compliance and garnishment administration across our organization.
Position Summary The Payroll Tax Analyst & Garnishment Specialist ensures the accuracy and compliance of multi‑state payroll taxes, maintains unemployment (SUI) rate data, and oversees quarterly and annual tax reconciliations and filings. This role also leads the processing of court‑ordered deductions—child support, tax levies, bankruptcy orders—while managing the payroll platform garnishment module and ensuring timely and accurate disbursements to agencies. The ideal candidate is detail‑oriented, compliance‑focused, and able to manage high‑volume, complex payroll tax and garnishment processes.
Key Responsibilities
Manage multi-state payroll tax setup, maintenance, and compliance across federal, state, and local jurisdictions.
Maintain and update SUI (State Unemployment Insurance) rates and ensure accurate application.
Reconcile quarterly and annual payroll tax filings, supporting audits and correcting discrepancies as needed.
Monitor tax notices, resolve agency inquiries, and ensure accurate remittance and reporting.
Validate tax data within payroll systems to ensure accuracy and compliance.
Process child support orders, tax levies, creditor garnishments, and bankruptcy deductions.
Manage all garnishment activity within the payroll system garnishment module, including setup, processing, and terminations.
Ensure timely and accurate agency payments and responses to wage order requests.
Communicate with employees regarding garnishment questions while maintaining confidentiality.
Partner with legal, HR, and payroll teams on compliance requirements and complex cases.
Basic Qualifications
3+ years of experience in payroll tax administration and/or garnishment processing within a multi‑state environment.
Working knowledge of federal, state, and local payroll tax laws and wage garnishment regulations.
Experience reconciling quarterly and annual tax filings (e.g., Forms 941, W‑2, SUI filings).
Hands‑on experience with ADP Workforce Now or a similar enterprise payroll system, including tax and garnishment modules.
Strong analytical and reconciliation skills with exceptional attention to detail.
Ability to interpret court orders and agency notices accurately.
Excellent communication and customer‑service skills, with a high level of discretion and confidentiality.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in a professional services, multi‑entity, or large‑scale payroll environment.
Intermediate to advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, formulas, data validation).
Familiarity with agency portals and tax research resources.
We appreciate talent from all over the United States and are willing to consider candidates who may not be located near a Crowe office location for this role/opening.
Benefits Your exceptional people experience starts here. At Crowe, we care about our people and offer employees a comprehensive total rewards package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you!
How You Can Grow We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations.
More About Crowe Crowe (www.crowe.com) is one of the largest public accounting, consulting and technology firms in the United States. Crowe uses its deep industry expertise to provide audit services to public and private entities while also helping clients reach their goals with tax, advisory, risk and performance services. Crowe is recognized as one of the country’s best places to work.
Crowe LLP provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Crowe will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act.
In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. Crowe is not sponsoring for work authorization at this time.
Seniority level: Not Applicable
Employment type: Full‑time
Job function: Accounting/Auditing and Finance; Industries: Accounting, Financial Services, IT Services and IT Consulting
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