Payroll Tax Project Intern(HROP)

About the Role

The HROP Payroll Ops team aims to be a trusted partner to employees, valuing their opinions and handling sensitive data with integrity. The team is committed to innovation, continuous systematization, and process optimization to achieve its full potential, providing a positive end-to-end employee experience in salary and benefit processing. The team aspires to be the leading payroll ops team by offering excellent support to employees in the industry.

As a Project Intern, you will contribute to impactful short-term projects and gain hands-on experience in a fast-paced, professional environment. This internship offers the opportunity to develop practical skills, apply knowledge to real-world challenges, and explore career interests.

The ideal candidate is passionate, highly independent, self-driven with a growth mindset, keen on accepting challenges yet humble, with the aim of learning and growing with the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Research payroll tax legislation changes and assess business impact.
• Research and provide up-to-date tax rates for US jurisdictions.
• Assist in building and maintaining the payroll tax database.
• Support to ensure tax registrations are up to date across US states.
• Prepare draft tax technical positions papers for review by management.
• Support to test payroll system updates, document test scenarios, validate results, and report defects.
• Review large datasets and extract insights to inform payroll tax processes/policies.
• Data preparation and coordination to support completion of tax returns.
• Other payroll tax duties as assigned.
• Demonstrable interest in pursuing a career in payroll tax, tax technology, or payroll operations, with an eagerness to develop knowledge of federal, state, and local tax requirements and technology-enabled compliance processes.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Currently pursuing an Undergraduate degree in computer science, accounting, law, finance, or a related discipline.
• Detail-oriented, excellent analytical skills, ability to take initiative with a strong interest in US payroll taxes.
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple data cycles, and meet tight deadlines.
• Strong communication skills to explain data issues and findings to cross-functional partners.
• Organized and efficient in work processes.
• Exceptional research and writing skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with Alteryx, Tableau, SQL, MS Excel Power Query/Pivot, or other BI tools to perform analysis and reconciliations.

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, the mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, with offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. The innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover, and connect. Global, diverse teams make this possible. Together, value is created for communities, creativity is inspired, and joy is brought – a mission worked towards every day. The company strives to do great things with great people. Leading with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make an impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. The company is resilient and embraces challenges. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, meaningful breakthroughs are achieved for individuals, the company, and users. When creating and growing together, the possibilities are limitless.

Compensation and Benefits

Hourly Rate Range: $25 - $25

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and country work location.

• Day one access to health insurance, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, and more.
• 10 paid holidays per year.
• Paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year).
• Potential eligibility for housing allowance for interns not working 100% remote.