Senior Lead Payroll Tax Analyst - America's

Company Description

Sandisk understands how people and businesses consume data and we relentlessly innovate to deliver solutions that enable today’s needs and tomorrow’s next big ideas. With a rich history of groundbreaking innovations in Flash and advanced memory technologies, our solutions have become the beating heart of the digital world we’re living in and that we have the power to shape.

Sandisk meets people and businesses at the intersection of their aspirations and the moment, enabling them to keep moving and pushing possibility forward. We do this through the balance of our powerhouse manufacturing capabilities and our industry-leading portfolio of products that are recognized globally for innovation, performance and quality.

Sandisk has two facilities recognized by the World Economic Forum as part of the Global Lighthouse Network for advanced 4IR innovations. These facilities were also recognized as Sustainability Lighthouses for breakthroughs in efficient operations. With our global reach, we ensure the global supply chain has access to the Flash memory it needs to keep our world moving forward.

Job Description

The Senior Lead Tax Analyst - Americas is the enterprise owner of payroll tax governance, compliance strategy, risk management, and operational excellence across the United States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. This highly specialized role leads the full payroll tax lifecycle, including tax configuration and calculations, agency registrations, deposits and filings, reconciliations, tax notices, amendments, quarter-end and year-end, equity compensation, controls, audits, and issue resolution. The position establishes standards, drives consistent controls, and leads cross-functional decisions with Payroll, Accounting, Stock Administration, HR, Global Mobility, Legal, Treasury, vendors, tax authorities, and external tax specialists. The role is expected to shape a scalable payroll tax operating model and provide functional leadership as the organization grows. 

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end U.S. federal, state, and local payroll tax compliance, including employee and employer withholding, taxable wage reporting, deposits, returns, reconciliations, corrections, and related accounting support. 

• Serve as the payroll tax functional lead for Workday Payroll, including tax configuration, earnings and deduction taxability, jurisdiction setup, calculation validation, testing, reporting, and production issue resolution. 

• Oversee ADP Smart Compliance Employment Tax activities, including data transmission, tax funding, deposits, filings, tax profiles, quarter-end exceptions, Statements of Deposit, amendments, tax notices, and service cases. 

• Lead quarter-end and year-end payroll tax activities, including balancing and review of Forms 941, 940, W-2, W-3, W-2c, W-3c, state and local returns, and amended filings. 

• Reconcile taxable wages and payroll tax liabilities across Workday Payroll, ADP Smart Compliance, payroll registers, general ledger accounts, cash funding, and filed returns; research and resolve variances. 

• Manage federal, state, and local tax notices and agency inquiries from receipt through resolution, including research, response preparation, vendor coordination, penalty abatement, refunds, and documentation. 

• Manage payroll tax registrations, tax identification numbers, powers of attorney, deposit frequencies, tax rates, account maintenance, and account closures for new and existing jurisdictions. 

• Own payroll taxation and reporting for RSUs, PSUs, ESPP, stock options, sell-to-cover transactions, tax shortfalls, excess withholding refunds, and related corrections in partnership with Stock Administration. 

• Provide expert guidance on multi-state and local taxation, remote and mobile employees, supplemental wages, FICA, FUTA, SUI, paid leave and disability programs, reciprocity, resident and work jurisdictions, and other complex tax scenarios. 

• Monitor legislative and regulatory changes; assess impact and coordinate updates to payroll configuration, vendor setup, controls, procedures, testing, reporting, and employee communications. 

• Maintain SOX-ready payroll tax controls, process documentation, calendars, issue trackers, reconciliations, audit support, and evidence of review; identify opportunities to automate and strengthen processes. 

• Lead complex payroll tax issue resolution with internal partners, tax authorities, ADP, Workday support teams, auditors, and external ; escalate vendor service or compliance risks when needed. 

• Support payroll tax audits, merger and acquisition activity, legal entity changes, successor employer requirements, and other special projects. 

• Develop and maintain the payroll tax governance framework for the Americas, including policies, standards, controls, compliance calendars, review protocols, documentation requirements, and issue escalation paths. 

• Serve as the company's highest-level payroll tax authority for the covered countries, establishing positions on complex matters and leading cross-functional decisions that affect payroll compliance, accounting, system design, and employee reporting. 

• Identify, assess, prioritize, and mitigate payroll tax risk across covered jurisdictions; provide leadership reporting on material exposures, audit findings, remediation plans, and recurring compliance trends. 

• Lead complex payroll tax investigations, corrections, voluntary disclosures, agency examinations, penalty-abatement efforts, and remediation programs through closure. 

• Lead payroll tax workstreams for enterprise initiatives, including Workday Payroll implementation and optimization, acquisitions, divestitures, legal entity changes, reorganizations, and payroll transformation programs. 

• Establish payroll tax design principles and control requirements that can scale to future countries, payroll solutions, and operating models. 

• Provide technical direction, coaching, and functional leadership to regional payroll teams and future payroll tax resources; contribute to talent planning and organizational design for the payroll tax function. 

• Own payroll tax governance and compliance oversight for Canada, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil, coordinating with local payroll providers and internal stakeholders while maintaining primary ownership of U.S. payroll tax. 

• Provide backup support for U.S. payroll processing and related payroll compliance activities when necessary. 

Qualifications

REQUIRED:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Taxation, Human Resources, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience. 

• At least 10 years of progressive payroll tax experience, including deep, hands-on responsibility for U.S. federal, state, and local payroll taxes in a complex, multi-state environment and experience supporting payroll tax matters across multiple countries. 

• Demonstrated ability to independently own the full payroll tax lifecycle, including configuration, calculations, funding, filings, reconciliations, notices, amendments, quarter-end, year-end, and controls. 

• Hands-on Workday Payroll experience, including U.S. payroll tax configuration, calculation review, testing, reconciliation, reporting, and issue resolution. 

• Experience with ADP Smart Compliance Employment Tax or a comparable enterprise payroll tax filing platform. 

• Strong technical knowledge of federal, multi-state, and local payroll taxation, including FICA, FUTA, SUI, supplemental wages, paid leave and disability programs, reciprocity, and amended returns. 

• Experience with payroll taxation and reporting for RSUs, ESPP, and other equity compensation. 

• Experience managing tax notices, registrations, agency inquiries, vendor escalations, tax reconciliations, and payroll tax controls. 

• Ability to research complex payroll tax matters, interpret requirements, assess enterprise risk, document conclusions, influence decisions, and drive issues through resolution with limited direction. 

• Strong analytical, executive communication, program leadership, documentation, and cross-functional influence skills. 

• Demonstrated experience designing payroll tax governance frameworks, compliance programs, controls, and audit-readiness strategies. 

• Experience leading payroll tax workstreams for enterprise payroll, finance, HR, equity, or system transformation initiatives. 

• Proven ability to influence senior leadership and drive decisions across multiple functions without direct authority. 

• Experience translating regulatory requirements and risk assessments into scalable processes, system requirements, controls, and remediation plans. 

PREFERRED:

• Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) designation. 

• Workday Payroll certification or extensive Workday Payroll implementation and production-support experience. 

• Direct experience with the Workday Payroll and ADP Smart Compliance integration. 

• Experience in a large, publicly traded organization with significant multi-state payroll and equity compensation activity. 

• Experience with SOX controls, internal and external audits, acquisitions, divestitures, legal entity changes, or successor employer payroll tax requirements. 

• Direct experience supporting payroll tax requirements in one or more of the following countries: Canada, Mexico, Argentina, or Brazil. 

• Experience building or maturing a payroll tax function, center of excellence, or governance program. 

• Experience providing functional leadership to payroll tax specialists, regional payroll teams, or external service providers. 

Additional Information

Sandisk is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the "Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal” poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here.

Sandisk thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.

Sandisk is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at [email protected] to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 12/02/2026 (3 months from posting), although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.

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Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York.  This range may be modified in the future.
• You will be eligible to participate in Sandisk's Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance.  Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Sandisk's Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program, employee stock purchase plan, and the Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.