Senior Business Analyst, Exp in US Tax or US Payroll

Job Description

Job Summary:

In this role, you will participate in designing, developing, documenting, and testing our payroll products. In addition, you will collect, analyze, and prioritize requirements from various entities including external taxing authorities and our internal sources - all in an effort to provide the most reliable U.S. payroll tax software in the industry.

This position requires an individual who can successfully work in a dynamic environment where priorities change based on continually evolving business needs. Our iterative development process approach requires a professional with excellent adaptability and communication skills.

About The Role

• Gather business requirements through meetings and taxing entities
• Serve as point of contact to ensure clear communication between payroll team members and stakeholders throughout the life cycle of projects
• Analyze payroll tax forms and related laws to ensure our software is kept up-to-date and accurate
• Work with product managers to plan and prioritize the backlog
• Create user stories, test plans, and acceptance criteria
• Work closely with software engineers to implement product enhancements
• Participate in sprint planning, stand ups, and retrospectives
• Maintain a strong understanding of the product vision
• Manage multiple concurrent tasks and projects
• Communicate progress updates to management
• Coordinate testing efforts with QA team members
• Ensure timely delivery of value-added software features
• Collaborate with others on best practices and lessons learned
  
  

About You

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business, or Computer Science/MIS preferred
• Experience leading or participating in cross-functional teams to develop solutions using agile and lean principles
• Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously while maintaining attention to detail
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Ability to adapt quickly to change
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban
• 3+ years of relevant work experience, specifically around U.S. payroll and/or income tax compliance is preferred
• 5+ years experience on Tax and Accounting, Financial or Legal management software as an analyst
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines
• Ability to solve problems creatively
• Experience using ADO and other tools used by Agile teams
  
  

What's in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.
• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
  
  

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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