ST0081 - Payroll Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Executing and supervising the end-to-end processing of weekly and bi-weekly payrolls, and ensuring omissions and discrepancies are quickly addressed.
• Leading, developing and managing the Payroll team in achieving business objectives and meeting internal service level agreements.
• Updating and maintaining the payroll system (Core payroll processing and Time and Attendance modules) including:
• setting up new earnings and deduction codes;
• planning for system upgrades;
• Testing upgrades and performing user acceptance testing; and
• preparing and updating training materials as required for extensive upgrades.
• Generating monthly and annual payroll remittances, filings and reconciliations with respect to government withholdings.
• Processing and distribution of annual employee tax documents
• Overseeing payroll accounting function with respect to payroll disbursements, journal entries, accruals, allocation reports, G/L account and table building, mapping and reconciliation.
• Forecasting of payroll costs to determine organizational budgets
• Troubleshooting payroll and time attendance systems in collaboration with the HR Technology and Process Specialist.
• Identifying, developing and implementing process improvements in order to build efficiencies, streamline processes and increase productivity throughout all payroll tasks.
• Creating, compiling and summarizing payroll information for internal and external auditors and management reports, as required.
• Responding to employee queries, as required.
• Investigating, escalating and resolving payroll issues to ensure timely and accurate resolution.
• Keeping abreast of relevant provincial and state requirements.
• Managing documentation, including user guides, and training materials related to payroll and timekeeping processes.
• Working with internal partners in HR, Total Rewards and Finance as well as external third parties such as tax regulators, auditors, payroll technology vendor.

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Qualifications:

• PCP certification is a definite asset.
• 2+ years of payroll processing experience in Canada.
• Experience with Ceridian or ADP Workforce Now.

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