Payroll Specialist

.****About TaskUs:**** TaskUs is a provider of outsourced digital services and next-generation customer experience to fast-growing technology companies, helping its clients represent, protect and grow their brands. Leveraging a cloud-based infrastructure, TaskUs serves clients in the fastest-growing sectors, including social media, e-commerce, gaming, streaming media, food delivery, ride-sharing, HiTech, FinTech, and HealthTech. At TaskUs, we prioritize our employees' well-being by offering competitive industry salaries and comprehensive benefits packages. Our commitment to a People First culture is reflected in the various departments we have established, including Total Rewards, Wellness, HR, and Diversity. We take pride in our inclusive environment and positive impact on the community. Moreover, we actively encourage internal mobility and professional growth at all stages of an employee's career within TaskUs. Join our team today and experience firsthand our dedication to supporting People First.****What We Offer:******As a Payroll Specialist, you will:*** Processing semi-monthly payroll for the Philippines.* Address and resolve employee, management and government agency inquiries* Generate and send reports* Assist with internal and external audit requirements* Reconcile payroll data* Conduct payroll talks and focus group discussions* Maintain payroll system updated* Generate and send reports to Operations for exceptions and items to be corrected for payroll transmission.* Generate and send reports to the HR Team for completion of government IDs.* Review and process payroll discrepancies and complete entries in the payroll system accordingly.* Coordinate with local agencies for tax, savings, health and social insurance reporting and payments.* Validates submitted reports from different feeders and payroll results* Consolidate and process submitted Authority to Deduct forms of government Loans, Loan Stoppage Requests, and BIR 2316 from previous employer of employees for tax consolidation.* Assist in processing unremitted government contributions due to missing ID number and discrepancies* Coordinate issue resolution with the HR Team regarding government loans, remittances, changes and or inquiries.* Reconcile Statutory contributions and loans especially the unposted contributions and loans.* Coordinate with the RDOs and/or any updates for Annualization and tax compliances.* Maintain payroll records current with relevant pay period data for auditing and reference purposes in compliance with local regulation requirements for record and handling of private and sensitive data.* Collect and Validate payroll data in Payroll Register matches information submitted to the vendor or what was entered in the payroll system as applicable.* Complete multiple validation reports to ensure Gross to Net is calculated properly for each payroll run.* Assist in preparation of payroll tax report (BIR 1601C) every month.* Assist in processing year end and annual tax reconciliation and preparation of employee and employer tax returns.* Assist in year-end activities such as releasing and collection of signed BIR 2316 forms from employees.* Assist in processing payments, manual checks, and remittances.* Reconcile and verify timely and accurate payroll tax and contribution payments are done.* Participate in payroll orientation for new hires and payroll focus group discussions.* Process of manual adjustments related to tax, statutory and loans for payroll processing and remittance.* Process off cycle payments.* Identify root cause and assist in proposing solutions to payroll impacting issues* Communicate and contribute to providing data to key business owners such as Human Resources, Finance, Operations and other approved contacts.* Assist in distributing paychecks.* Coordinate tasks from different specialists or Payroll team members as assigned.* Assist in gathering information for Audit requirements* Reconciling payroll registers vs bank account transactions and accounting entries.* Cross train new team members* High school diploma required* Bachelor’s Degree with emphasis on business or accounting preferred* Experience with computerized payroll processing* Experience with ADP, ORACLE HR/Payroll systems a plus* Microsoft Excel and Word* Must be detailed oriented* Able to meet deadlines* Outstanding customer service* Excellent written and verbal communication. Ability to communicate with all levels across the various departments.* Able to work in fast paced and high volume process environment* Diligent in following through to guarantee full completion of task or issue.* Should be able to work independently to ensure day to day functions and projects are completed and should be able to work as a team for collaboration, projects or achievement of team and company goals.* Use all resources available to resolve issues and escalate as needed to the manager.* Be able to respond assertively regarding payroll matters.* Must have a good sense of urgency.to learn more about our #RidiculouslyGood Culture & life at TaskUs.At TaskUs, we put our frontline first, period. We have state-of-the-art workspaces, top-notch benefits, and some of the best teammates in the world. No matter where you are around the globe, we invest in you and your career growth. Join Us Let's change the way the world works.TaskUs is looking for ridiculously good talent, and we are excited that you are considering TaskUs for your next career step. In doing so, we take your security and safety very seriously to ensure as part of the hiring process. Here are a few things that are important to know about our company and recruiting process:* You will never be asked for payment information or banking information during the application or interview process.* We WILL NOT ask you for your national ID number (Social Security or Government ID) or date of birth when applying for a position with us* Please be aware that scammers may try to take advantage of you by impersonating TaskUs or TaskUs employees in order to access money or personal information and offer false employment opportunities in our name.We have identified several clues to watch out for to help you identify and avoid recruiting scams:* TaskUs will never ask for financial information of any kind or for payment of money during the job application process.We do not require any financial, credit card or bank account information and/or any payment of any kind in order to be considered for employment. If you are asked to pay for things like equipment fees, travel fees, or some other deposit or application-processing fee, even if claimed you will be reimbursed, this is not Us. It is a scam.* TaskUs does not require personal information including Social Security Number, National ID, Government ID or date of birth as part of the application process. We may ask for basic contact information such as your email address, phone number, and/or home address to ensure we can contact you.* If you were contacted by a third-party organization claiming to represent TaskUs or hiring on behalf of TaskUs, or if you were contacted in a chat room such as Google Hangouts, Freelancer.com or Telegram app, you should be careful in sharing any information. TaskUs official chat room is located on our Careers website (). This is the only chat room where you will find our recruiters.#J-18808-Ljbffr