Senior Payroll Manager
Permanent Hybrid | Thornhill, Vaughan
Compensation Range
$104K - $140KCompensation will be determined based on the successful candidate's experience, skills, and qualifications, and may also be influenced by internal equity and market conditions.
+Bonus
Description
Duties & Responsibilities
- Responsible for managing the daily operations of the payroll department including anticipating future requirements, hiring, coaching, mentoring, developing, and leading the payroll team.
- Provide leadership, expertise, and guidance on payroll related issues to other departments including operations, finance, and HR in a timely manner and in compliance with all government legislation while adhering to various collective agreements.
- Ensure timely and accurate processing of high volume, complex multi province, both union and nonunion, weekly and bi-weekly payrolls, including incentives, special payments, garnishments, benefits and taxes while ensuring that all deadlines are met.
- Process all remittances relating to payroll including disbursements to benefit carriers, pensions, unions, tax authorities, and worker’s compensation ensuring compliance with federal and provincial legislation and collective agreements.
- Checking and auditing all payrolls, ensuring legislative requirements are
- Analyze current payroll workflow processes across the entire organization with the objective to make recommendations for improvement of the processes and identifying synergy opportunities.
- Focus on continuous improvement of the payroll function across the
- Provide support to ERP in reviewing JDE payroll process guides and documentation for regionally specific customization to maintain payroll process manuals as needed and ensure compliance with all internal
- Responsible to liaison with relevant government agencies, financial auditors, and various union administrators
- Review payroll team’s updates and maintenance of burden rate sheets for unions and jurisdictions based on management, regional controllers, and corporate expectations/direction of company burdens to be applied.
- Oversee the preparation and reconciliation of the year end process including T4s, RL1 and annual returns for WCB and EHT with the support of ERP.
- Accurate and confidential maintenance of payroll records, files and reports
- End to end processing of confidential Executive payroll
- Other adhoc payroll related projects
Qualifications
Competency Requirements:
- Operates with a high level of personal integrity, ethics and values
- Maintains discretion over confidential information and exercise sound judgement in decision making
- Build trust in relationships across the organization
- Good interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills
- Strong customer focus
- Holds self and others accountable
- Adaptable, critical thinker and problem solver
- Teamwork and collaboration – team-oriented, with excellent relationship building and communication
- Coaches and Develops
- Maximizes Business Performance and Team Effectiveness
Qualification Requirements (i.e., Knowledge, Skill, Ability):
- Strong leadership capabilities, as they relate to leading a team and also interacting with
- Highly developed communication(written/verbal) and interpersonal
- Ability to utilize a customer service approach to both internal staff as well as external regulators, including the use of analytics
- Demonstrated knowledge of collective agreements as well as applicable legislation and regulation
- Advanced knowledge of Federal and Provincial legislation
- Ability to handle multiple priorities
- Proven leader and change
- Flexibility to contribute over and above required work
- Background in construction or related industry is preferred
- Advanced user of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Power BI)
- JD Edwards, or another large ERP system is
Education and / or Experience:
- A minimum of 10 years demonstrated payroll management experience in a complex, high volume payroll environment (3000+ employees)
- Must have multi-union, multi-site, and multi-province
- Certified Payroll Manager designation from the National Payroll Institute a minimum of Payroll Compliance Practitioner (PCP) required.
- Completion of an accredited accounting program (CA. CGA, or CMA) considered an
- US Payroll experience would be considered an
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