Payroll Analyst
Manulife
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Toronto • 🇨🇦 Canada
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Ensure accurate and timely payroll processing for multiple countries
- Audit payroll operations, resolve discrepancies, and analyze data for trends and anomalies
- Maintain payroll records, databases, and documentation
- Collaborate with HR, vendors, and internal teams to resolve payroll issues
- Ensure compliance with global payroll regulations and company policies
- Assist with audits, reporting, and process improvements
- Respond to escalated payroll inquiries and provide expert guidance
- Participate in training and contribute to team knowledge sharing
Requirements
- 4–6 years payroll processing experience
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or equivalent
- Flexibility to work across time zones to support global payroll operations
- Strong logic and mathematical aptitude
- In-depth knowledge of payroll processing, tax principles, wage & hour legislation
- Experience with large HR systems (Workday) and payroll providers (ADP, Ceridian, UKG)
- Exposure to complex payroll scenarios (mobile employees, expatriates, currency conversions)
- Knowledge of working across platforms (Teams, Zoom, Webex)
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental
- Mental health
- Vision
- Short- and long-term disability
- Life and AD&D insurance coverage
- Adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits
- Employee/family assistance plans
- Retirement savings plans
- Pension
- Global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions
- Financial education and counseling resources
- Paid time off includes holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days
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Hard skills
payroll processingaudit payroll operationsdata analysiscompliance with payroll regulationstax principleswage & hour legislationlarge HR systemscomplex payroll scenarioscurrency conversions
Soft skills
collaborationproblem-solvingexpert guidanceknowledge sharingflexibility