ADP is hiring a Government Affairs Director for our Tempe, AZ location. We will consider remote candidates as well. We will be accepting applications for this role till May 9, 2025

• Are you proficient in payroll employment tax? Are you a strategic problem solver with a passion for resolving complex tax matters?
• Have you built and maintained relationships with key stakeholders in government agencies?
• Do you enjoy staying current on evolving employment tax regulations and agency requirements?
• Are you looking to grow your career in an agile, dynamic environment with plenty of opportunities to grow!
• Are you looking to be yourself in a culture that values equity, inclusion, and belonging and creates a safe space for diverse perspectives and insights?

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In this role, you will leverage your knowledge, experience, and leadership expertise to support multiple teams, ensuring efficient operations and an overall productive and enjoyable working environment for employees. The Government Affairs Director in One Tax Compliance will communicate regularly with federal regulators and tax administrators to help ensure company policies adhere to statutory requirements.

Your primary responsibility will be to liaison between ADP’s One Tax Compliance organization and the tax agencies. You will plan scheduled visits to tax agencies to obtain agency views on ADP performance and to promote efficiencies and advocate for technology improvements. Additionally, there will be occasions where you will need to react to emerging matters that require immediate intervention. Your job will be a combination of planned activities and dynamic interactions.

Although every day is a different experience representing varying issues and complexity levels, the nature of what you do every day will not change - your #1 goal is to work with governmental agencies and ADP to ensure that we provide efficient, effective and compliant solutions for all parties.

Your new role will provide you with the opportunity to make a difference. How you interact with agency officials and with ADP business units will in large measure help to determine how well ADP continues to thrive in the employment tax segment. In the end, your success will create a culture where ADP and state tax agencies provide service excellence that enables our clients to succeed.

To thrive in this role, you will work with clients in a way that builds rapport, establishes trust, and shines with professionalism. Over the phone and in writing, your communication style is clear and easy for our agency representatives and clients to understand and take action on. As a result, your agency/client satisfaction scores make you proud. Pace should not scare you.

We also have a healthy dose of fun. Not only can you find a career here but relationships that last in a company that values inclusion.

What you can expect on a typical day: Responsibilities

• You will have many opportunities to upgrade your knowledge and skills. Your role will allow you to participate in member organizations that will offer certifications on payroll, including federal and state compliance, standard operating procedures, administrative practices, other products, and desktop support tools to develop and maintain your ability to support our clients.
• You will have overarching goals that will contribute to ADP goals. In achieving those goals, you will in large measure be self-directed. You will be responsible to plan your annual activities, including a travel plan, individual goal measures, and processing improvement strategies.
• You will ultimately help ADP clients in a variety of ways, by assisting adjacent business units to make tax filing and payment activities efficient and timely. Our goal is to be a seamless intermediary between our clients and state agencies. You will work with state agencies to ensure payments and filings are transacted as expected and minimize client impact.
• You adhere to a daily schedule and organize yourself to deal with issue inquiries and escalation events. Daily interactions may increase during peak seasons, such as the last calendar quarter of the year.
• Provide Senior Leadership input on strategic plans & advise on strategic initiatives/projects.
• Contributes to the development of functional strategy
• Manage relationships with key government stakeholders
• Represent ADP at agency/industry tax conferences, groups and/or initiatives.
• Anticipates business challenges and/or regulatory issues; recommends process, product or service improvements
• Contributes to solving unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business
• Works on complex projects to achieve milestones and objectives with attention to quality standards, priorities and overall goals; contributes to developing the strategy for project execution
• Serve as a resource for other team members, based on a strong working knowledge of team's responsibilities and goals
• Assist on escalated issues and provide direction
• Function as a consultant and business partner to other organizations within ADP
• Serve as an acting backup to other leaders, providing leadership, guidance and direction to team members in the absence of the leader
• Participate in task forces, strategic initiatives, stretch assignments and collaboration opportunities with other business units
• Advise on the direction and resource allocation for program, project or services; works within general functional policies and industry guidelines
• Communicates complex ideas, anticipates potential objections and persuades others, often at senior levels, to adopt a different point of view

TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE: Requirements

• 8 years of experience in agency relations
• Prior government agency experience with in-depth and/or breadth of expertise in own discipline and broad knowledge of other disciplines within the function of payroll employment tax
• This position can be virtual for the right candidate
• This role will require 30-35% travel which can include overnights

A college degree is great but not required. What's more important is having the skills to do the job. Other acceptable experiences could include:

• Experience noted above, OR
• Military experience where skills including teamwork, adaptability, organization, and follow-through will help you build team and client relationships, identify solutions, and achieve success.

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