EMCOR Building Services - Payroll Tax Specialist
Irvine, CAFull-time$33–35/hrPosted 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Payroll Tax Specialist ensures timely and accurate weekly tax payments to federal, state, and local agencies. The role prepares and files quarterly and year-end tax returns, reconciles tax payments, and partners with management on payroll tax matters. It also supports payroll year-end preparation and assists the tax team with special projects and pressing matters.
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About Us
From mechanical construction and site-based facility management services to energy efficiency and interior/exterior maintenance, EMCOR Building Services (EBS) companies have your site covered.
Few organizations are structured to provide the depth of field experience and certified expertise offered by our companies, not to mention their best-in-class processes and continuous client collaboration.
Job Summary
The Payroll Tax Specialist ensures timely and accurate weekly tax payments for federal, state and local agencies. Prepare and file tax returns 941 quarterlies and year end 940’s. Reconcile tax payments and partner with management on other payroll tax matters.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
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Process weekly tax deposits
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Filing of weekly, monthly and quarterly tax returns
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Partner with payroll to prepare with yearend
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Versatile and Skillful in multiple payroll software’s
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Attention to detail and ability to work accurately under deadline pressure
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Assist and partner with tax team on special projects or pressing matters
Qualifications
High School diploma or GED
3+ years in a similar payroll tax role within a high volume, fast paced environment
Technical Qualifications & Skills Proficient in Excel
Experience with email in a business to business setting (Outlook preferred)
Experience with Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Excel and Internet navigation
Stong data entry and typing skills
Excellent attention to detail with a focus on efficiency and accuracy
Superior organizational skills with the ability to multitask and prioritize in order to meet objectives and standards
Strong oral and written communication skills
Physical Demands
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and color vision.
Work Environment
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Equal Opportunity Employer
As a leading provider of mechanical and electrical construction, facilities services, and energy infrastructure, we offer employees a competitive salary and benefits package and we are always looking for individuals with the talent and skills required to contribute to our continued growth and success. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
Affirmative Action Policy
Please review ourAffirmative Action Policy (https://emcorgroup.icims.com/icims2/servlet/icims2?module=AppInert&action=download&id=166102&hashed=225585971) .
Notice to Prospective Employees
Notice to prospective employees: There have been fraudulent postings and emails regarding job openings. EMCOR Group and its companieslist open positions here (https://careers-emcorgroup.icims.com/) . Please check our available positions to confirm that a post or email is genuine.
EMCOR Group and its companies do not reach out to individuals to help with marketing or other similar services. If an individual is contacted for services outside of EMCOR’s normal application process – it is probably fraudulent.
Geographic Disclosure
Pay range: $33-$35/hr
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Job Locations US-CA-Irvine
ID 2026-54375
Company EMCOR Building Services
Category Tax
Position Type Full-Time
Location Type Onsite
Posted Date (11/3/2026 3:17 PM)
How this job compares
Set against the 614 open Payroll jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$33–35/hr
- US median$24–28/hr130 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $34/hr, is 27% above the US median midpoint ($27/hr) — in the top quarter of Payroll hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 65 open Payroll jobs in California and 614 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Accenture6 open
- Robert Half Accountemps4 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Payroll postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (465 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 287 of the 614 open Payroll jobs (47%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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