Manager, Employment Tax

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Manager, Employment Tax

Overview:
This role is responsible for supporting global employment tax compliance, advisory, risk management, and project execution activities. The role serves as a key technical resource and works closely with regional stakeholders and external advisors to ensure operational excellence and compliance across global employment tax processes.

Role:
• Support internal stakeholders on federal, state, and local employment tax compliance activities, such as reviewing tax notices, statutory tax filings, and reconciliations
• Assist in research to support tax positions, resolve multi-state withholding issues, reciprocity agreements, nonresident allocation questions, and cross-border tax implications
• Assist in taxation and reporting of equity compensation and incentive plans (RSUs, stock options, ESPP, ISIP-type plans) across jurisdictions, including year-end true-ups, and recharge arrangement considerations.
• Provide tax guidance to cross-functional partners on the employment tax implications of compensation, benefits, travel & expense programs, and remote/flexible work arrangements globally.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop processes and procedures to ensure accurate tax reporting and withholdings on employee compensation and benefits including long-term incentives and bonus plans
• Assist with tax authority notices and audits across jurisdictions, including gathering documentation and support related worker classification and permanent establishment risk assessments.
• Partner with Payroll Operations and third-party payroll providers (e.g., ADP, Workday, and local vendors) to validate tax configurations, review payroll tax reconciliations, year-end reporting, and country-specific reporting requirements.
• Support M&A due diligence and People & Capability’s integration activities
• Monitor changes in employment tax law across regions, analyze the impact on Mastercard and communicate changes with management
• Support SOX and financial statement audit requests related to payroll tax

All About You:
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Tax, Law, or a related field.
• Prior experience at a Big Four firm, multinational in-house tax function, or regional shared-services organization.
• Solid working knowledge of federal and multi-state/ country payroll tax withholding, plus working knowledge of statutory employer payroll tax and social security obligations in US and other international jurisdictions
• Experience supporting tax authority audits (U.S. and/or international).
• Experience with equity compensation tax reporting and coordination with Stock Administration, and with global equity plan administration and multi-jurisdictional incentive plan tax reporting.
• Track record of identifying and driving operational improvements and adopting market-standard methodologies to improve global compliance process efficiency and effectiveness.
• Experience with payroll systems (e.g., ADP, Workday, SAP) and payroll tax engines.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and cross-cultural written/verbal communication skills; comfort working across time zones and in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency in calculations, tables, and automation tools to process and analyze large volumes of payroll tax data across multiple jurisdictions.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;

• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;

• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.