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Product Analysts at Check are the go-to experts on payroll regulations, ensuring that Check’s platform is thoughtfully designed and fully compliant with payroll laws and standards.Responsibilities include:- Regulatory Impact Analysis: Assess the effect of payroll rules and regulations on the platform, identifying and managing compliance, legal, and operational risks to guide prioritization of payroll and tax initiatives.- Cross-Functional Leadership: Coordinate requirement-driven updates, such as new tax implementations and filing data elements, acting as the project lead to ensure seamless, on-time delivery.- Documentation Expertise: Research, create, and communicate detailed compliance and product requirement documents, providing a reliable foundation for compliant product development.- Product Subject Matter Expertise: Act as the Payroll Product SME to support Check’s expansion into new functionalities, guiding product development through a regulatory lens.- Quality Assurance: Design and execute testing scenarios with a payroll-specific focus to verify the accuracy and compliance of new features or tax updates prior to release.

- Led a regulatory team, implementing standardized processes for tracking legislative changes and requirements. - Created a new product analyst role to interpret complex regulatory data, collaborating with engineers to integrate technical solutions.

- Developed SOPs and implemented Airtable to automate regulatory research and documentation processes.- Collaborated cross-functionally to build technical solutions, standardizing workflows for compliance requests.

Managed a team of analysts who collaborated with engineers to ensure regulatory alignment across multiple jurisdictions.

- Compliance Research & Tracking: Continuously research and monitor payroll and HR compliance regulations, proactively tracking upcoming legislation to maintain alignment and readiness.- Technical Guidance & Support: Partner with engineers to deliver critical statutory guidance on complex payroll requirements, ensuring full system compliance with payroll tax laws and reporting standards.- Impact Analysis & Implementation: Evaluate the effects of compliance changes, making actionable recommendations that drive seamless integration and ensure regulatory adherence.- Cross-Functional Communication: Document requirements and facilitate timely communication with internal teams, leading collaborative meetings and guiding cross-functional progress using matrix management.- Rapid Issue Resolution: Anticipate and address questions from engineers, product managers, designers, sales, and customer experience teams, enabling efficient product updates and smooth operations.- Prioritization & Performance Metrics: Define key metrics, prioritize feature enhancements using risk assessments, cost-benefit analysis, and ROI evaluations, and track progress against goals for measurable outcomes.- System & Process Optimization: Identify opportunities for improvement across systems, processes, documentation, training, and internal communications to enhance overall compliance operations.- Stakeholder Relationships: Develop and maintain strong relationships with federal, state, and municipal tax authorities, as well as industry partners and vendors, to ensure collaboration and alignment with compliance standards.

Served as the marketing representative for an assigned territory, building and maintaining strong agency relationships to drive new and renewal business. Monitored agent activity, provided product insights, and guided agents on placing Property, Casualty, and Workers Compensation insurance with the company.

Conducted research and analysis for public and private sector clients on public policy, business strategy, and operations. Compiled data on California’s small business demographics, conducted cost analyses, benchmarked nonprofit membership profiles, and synthesized findings into reports and presentations for firm principals.

Supported Finance Operations by assisting budget analysts, reviewing and editing budget documents and spreadsheets for the Governor’s Budget and Salaries and Wages publication. Verified and published eBudget documents and managed Budget Letter distribution to the Capitol and assembly members.