Tax Filing & Payments Associate

The role

You will own filing and payments for a defined set of agencies and employers. You will perform account prep, original filings, and monitor failed or late payments while identifying ways to automate processes.

What you will do

• Take ownership of a defined set of jurisdictions including account prep, original filings, and monitoring failed and late payments.
• File and pay under established workflows.
• Help balance tax accounts and reconcile discrepancies.
• Partner across Payroll Operations, R&D, and Revenue to dig into root cause on escalations.
• Log friction points to help the team act on them.
• Leverage AI to make work faster and more accurate.
• Manage work within a defined scope and communicate proactively about deadlines and blockers.

Required qualifications

• 1 to 2+ years of experience in operations, compliance, payroll, or a related regulated or customer-facing function
• A track record of picking up new systems, tools, or subject matter quickly
• Comfort taking ownership of a defined piece of work and asking for help early
• A track record of noticing when something's off and speaking up about it
• Solid written communication skills
• Comfort operating in a product that's still being built, and with some ambiguity

Nice to have

• Genuine curiosity about AI and internal tooling

Benefits

• Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, short-term/long-term disability, and basic life insurance coverage
• Stock options
• Flexible PTO and sick leave
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents
• Flexible return-to-work
• 9 annual holidays
• 401k retirement plan
• $100 monthly stipend for home internet and mobile phone expenses
• Meals on Tuesdays and Thursdays for in-office and hybrid employees
• Regular happy hours, game nights, and other in-person events

Before you apply

• Check participates in E-Verify to confirm authorization to work in the U.S.

About the company

Check is the payroll engine behind platforms businesses rely on, rebuilding payroll infrastructure. They are the inventors of embedded payroll.