Payroll

• Prepare, process and balance payroll
• Administer source deductions, including employee benefits programs
• Manage year-end payroll processes
• Open, update and manage employee files
• Prepare payroll-related reports and documents
• Record, analyze, reconcile and complete accounting entries
• Manage occupational health & safety (OHS) and WSIB files
• Respond to employee payroll inquiries
• Perform various analyses and provide support to the Human Resources department

Payroll Specialist

• Manage end-to-end payroll processing for Canada
• Validate payroll inputs including compensation changes, benefits, deductions, time records, and employee status updates
• Ensure payroll compliance with applicable regulations and company policies
• Perform payroll reconciliations, reporting, accounting support, and audit activities
• Partner with HR, Finance, IT, and payroll vendors to deliver payroll excellence
• Resolve payroll issues, inquiries, and escalations
• Drive process improvements, system enhancements, testing, and continuous improvement initiatives

Country Lead, North America Payroll

• Work directly with clients to implement Workday Payroll technology solutions into their business environments of increasing complexity levels with experience
• Deliver high-quality Workday solutions across multiple industries to meet clients’ business needs of increasing complexity levels with experience
• Define, build and implement HR processes and structure, in alignment with client’s business objectives and needs, enhancing clients’ experience and value of the Workday software of increasing complexity levels with experience
• Actively participate in internal training updates and opportunities to share one’s skills and learnings with others within the organization
• Manage a team of consultants, guiding them through their Workday/professional development and handling escalations (Manager Level)
• Utilize Workday experience and knowledge to develop sales material and scope projects as needed by the sales team (Senior/Principal Level)
• Ability to travel 25-45%

Workday Payroll Consultant, Canada

• Provides guidance and mentorship to the Payroll Coordinator, reviews payroll outputs for accuracy, and supports resolution of complex payroll issues.
• Supports payroll execution across multiple pay cycles, ensuring accuracy and timeliness. Coordinates with Dayforce Managed Services to resolve issues and validate outputs.
• Ensures compliance with payroll-related legislation and regulations; produces payroll remittances and annual tax documents; oversees compliance with statutory reporting and filing requirements; and develops policies and procedures for the payroll function. Assists the Manager, Payroll in maintaining compliance with federal and provincial legislation, including CRA requirements and OSFI readiness.
• Develops processes for reviews and audits of each pay cycle. Supports audit preparation and documentation and ensures payroll records are maintained accurately.
• Collaborates with Dayforce Managed Services to ensure system functionality aligns with legislative and organizational requirements.
• Reviews and recommends updates to payroll system configuration and recommends and implements changes leading best-practice operations.
• Supports the Manager, Payroll in CRA-related matters and acts as a secondary contact for escalated payroll inquiries.
• Ensures payroll processing reflects accurate benefit deductions, leave adjustments, and return-to-work arrangements. Advises on payroll implications of benefit changes.

Payroll Specialist – 12 Month Contract

• Process and issue employee paychecks and statements of earnings and deductions.
• Calculate wages, deductions, and enter data into computer systems.
• Review various records to detect and reconcile payroll discrepancies.
• Compile employee time, production, and payroll data from various records.
• Enter employee information into the payroll system for new hires.
• Verify attendance, hours worked, and pay adjustments, maintaining designated records.
• Record employee information such as exemptions, transfers, and resignations for payroll updates.
• Issue and record pay adjustments for errors or retroactive increases.
• Track employee leave time, including vacation, personal, and sick leave.
• Provide information to employees and managers regarding payroll matters, tax issues, benefit plans, and collective agreement provisions.
• Assist with HRIS implementation, including testing and other assigned duties.

Payroll Administrator

• Préparer la paie Canadienne, US et Internationale pour les divers sites sous votre responsabilité;
• Valider la paie (après l'avoir reçue et avant de la transmettre) pour chaque période de paie;
• Produire des rapports liés à la paie;
• Répondre aux questions des employés sur la paie pour les sites dont vous avez la responsabilité;
• Vous occupez des activités associées à la fin de l'année financière au Canada, aux États‑Unis et dans d'autres pays.

Technicien – Paie

• Provide engaging leadership by developing a team, overseeing performance management, talent development, and succession planning
• Assume overall accountability for Canadian and U.S. payroll operations, including tax and regulatory compliance
• Define and evolve the organizational structure, priorities, and objectives of the department in alignment with business strategies
• Lead the optimization of payroll and HR processes by resolving operational challenges and leveraging system capabilities, including Workday and artificial intelligence
• Act as a strategic partner to stakeholders and contribute to the delivery of large-scale initiatives and projects
• Represent the department to senior leadership by communicating strategic directions, results, and key issues
• Drive continuous improvement and the transformation of payroll processes through innovation and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence
• Establish performance indicators and a governance framework to optimize results and support informed decision-making
• Ensure rigorous management of operations and projects, including planning, priorities, timelines, and deliverable quality
• Implement control, audit, and quality assurance mechanisms and provide strategic leadership on cross-functional issues
• Demonstrate influential leadership in transformation initiatives, system migrations, and mergers and acquisitions activities

Manager, North American Payroll Services

• Provide full end-to-end payroll processing support for OSV’s Managed Payroll customers
• Manage multiple customers with various deadlines in a fast-paced work environment
• Support Workday payroll configuration and year-end support
• Act as named Specialist for Managed Payroll and Payroll Administrative customers
• Manage and respond to cases daily to ensure service level agreements and high client satisfaction levels
• Troubleshoot quarter and year-end audit reports and make recommendations to customers

Payroll Specialist II

• Reporting to the Manager, HR Technology & Analytics, the Payroll Lead is the functional owner and subject matter expert (SME) for Payroll and Pension processes.
• Responsible for ensuring accurate payroll processing, compliance, and seamless integration between Time & Attendance, Payroll, and HR systems.
• Lead payroll design, validation, and optimization activities.
• Provide end-to-end leadership of the payroll workstream.
• Collaborate with HR, Payroll, Finance, Operations, and union representatives to gather requirements and validate solutions.
• Act as a trusted advisor and liaison between internal teams and external vendors.
• Drive process improvements to increase payroll efficiency, automation, and compliance.

Payroll Lead, Enterprise Time and Attendance System

• Maintains all employee payroll information to ensure it is current and accurate.
• Works in conjunction with the appropriate resources to process new hires, employee changes, terminations, and transfers of hourly craft employees.
• Prepares and processes in house‑ weekly multi‑provincial (including Quebec) payroll for hourly craft employees.
• Understands and interprets government legislation and collective bargaining agreements to ensure compliance with pay, deductions, benefits, taxes, and documentation requirements.
• Maintains all aspects of district payroll system setup, where required.
• Reconciles and remits all company and union benefit liabilities, including but not limited to CCQ, Revenu Québec, CNESST, WCB, CRA, and provincial health.
• Reconciles and prepares payroll year‑end reporting for hourly craft employees, including Relevé 1s, T4s, and T2200s.
• Develops and maintains strong customer focused‑ relationships with all stakeholders.
• Performs other duties as required.

Payroll Coordinator

Payroll Coordinator, Bilingual

• Effectuer la saisie des données requises au traitement de la paie des différentes entités du Groupe, selon le calendrier établi.
• Extraire les rapports de paie de Workday et les comparer aux comptes du grand livre.
• Identifier les écarts afin de permettre aux paies-maîtres de les expliquer ou d’apporter les corrections nécessaires.
• Préparer, pour validation (hebdomadairement ou mensuellement), les fichiers de remises gouvernementales (DAS, Centraide, Club social, saisies, régime de retraite, etc.) pour les paies des sociétés mutuelles et de la Fédération.
• Remplir le formulaire d’avis de cessation de participation au Fonds de pension des employés du Groupe Promutuel dans les délais établis et le transmettre à la personne responsable des régimes de retraite.
• Transmettre les relevés d’emploi à Service Canada pour toutes les fins d’emploi et les absences au sein des entités du Groupe Promutuel.
• Collaborer avec les experts en paie du Groupe pour toute question relative aux transactions qu’il ou elle effectue.
• Prendre en charge des dossiers spécifiques à la demande des paies-maîtres.
• Collaborer avec les paies-maîtres à l’amélioration des processus et à la qualité des données.
• Effectuer toute autre tâche connexe.

Technicien(ne) paie

• Lead end-to-end RFP processes to identify, vet, and onboard new partners across new and existing markets.
• Manage partner reactivation pipelines, including due diligence reviews and contract refreshes for previously inactive partnerships.
• Respond to proactive expansion requests and sales-driven needs for new territories with structured sourcing plans.
• Negotiate localized contract terms, including MSAs, SOWs, and SLAs, within defined boundaries and in close collaboration with Legal.
• Serve as the internal authority on partner contractual obligations and service delivery boundaries, resolving ambiguities and preventing unauthorized cost escalations.
• Own and maintain governance frameworks and rules of engagement that define how Pebl interacts with its global partner network.
• Act as the central advocate and operational bridge between internal teams (Payroll, Experience, Product, Onboarding) and external partners.
• Monitor and enforce SLA adherence across the partner ecosystem, escalating contractual or high-risk operational issues as required.
• Identify and lead process improvements across partner sourcing, due diligence, and governance workflows.
• Contribute to the Partner Knowledge Base, ensuring documentation, partner profiles, and rules of engagement remain current and accessible.

Senior Global Vendor Specialist – Payroll

• Process the full payroll cycle for salaried and hourly employees through the Human Capital Management (HCM) system.
• Perform day-to-day administration and maintenance of the payroll system (HCM).
• Process and distribute all payroll-related documentation, including Records of Employment (ROEs), T4s, T5s, and other statutory forms.
• Ensure timesheet setup, submission and approval by the managers.
• Responsible for monthly, quarterly, and year-end payroll reconciliations and regulatory filings are completed accurately and on time.
• Administer employee benefit programs, including enrollments, changes, terminations, and ongoing maintenance.
• Liaise with benefits providers, brokers, and internal stakeholders to ensure accurate data exchange and issue resolution.
• Maintain accurate employee data related to compensation, benefits, headcount, and employment status.
• Monitor and ensure compliance with federal and provincial payroll, tax, benefits, and employment legislation, as well as ROCK policies and procedures.
• Communicate clearly, respectfully, and professionally with employees, internal stakeholders, benefits providers, external vendors, and regulatory bodies.

Payroll and Benefits Specialist

• Own the end-to-end global payroll operating model across employees, contractors, EORs, PEOs, and local providers.
• Manage and develop a team of 2–3 direct reports while maintaining execution discipline and high operational standards.
• Lead the operational administration of employee equity in Shareworks, covering grant processing, data updates, and multi-department reconciliation.
• Identify and implement automation workflows to minimize manual data transfers, recurring exceptions, and data friction.
• Partner with HR Technology, IT, and Finance to drive payroll platform consolidations and maximize system reliability.
• Strengthen compliance protocols, payroll controls, and documentation to protect the business from financial exposure and ensure audit readiness.
• Establish clear processing calendars, accountability metrics, and data scorecards to measure function accuracy and capacity gains.
• Step into complex tax, equity, and market-specific payroll challenges to drive swift cross-functional resolution.

Senior Manager, Global Payroll Systems – Equity Operations

• Reviews and processes payroll and all payroll-related forms for completeness and accuracy.
• Ensures timecard data is accurately entered into the payroll system.
• Processes layoffs and follows payroll procedures for terminated employees.
• Contacts operations supervisors for any missed timecards or discrepancies with timecards.
• Reviews and processes all special payments as required and in accordance with current CRA rules.
• Compiles and accurately processes payroll data such as garnishments, vacation time, union dues, benefits, insurance and other deductions.
• Ensures all deductions are made as scheduled and in accordance with relevant collective agreements.
• Creates and runs required internal management reports from the payroll system.
• Calculates, prepares and reports statutory remittances and voluntary payroll deductions in a timely manner and balance to the General Ledger.
• Responsible for paystub sealing and distribution.
• Prepares payroll distribution, expense, benefit and other journal entries and reconcile related payroll general ledger accounts.
• Assists in the reconciliation, creation and timely distribution of T4s/T4As.
• Maintains an accurate set of confidential employee files by sorting and filing copies of documents after each pay run.
• Responds to employee, union, benefit carriers and government agencies regarding payroll inquiries.
• Responsible for preparing timecards for upcoming pay period.
• Assists other payroll clerks for vacation relief or during peak periods.
• Performs other administrative duties as requested.
• Trains Payroll back up and reviews the work during the training process.
• Provides training to other Payroll Clerks as required.
• Provides back-up relief to cover other payrolls.
• Participates in required meetings providing input.
• Participates and assists in implementation of new systems as required.
• Performs other payroll and accounting related duties as assigned.
• Prepares ad hoc reports as requested.
• Performs additional duties as assigned.

Senior Payroll Clerk

• Reviews, analyzes and processes semi-monthly payroll for both Canadian and US operations in Dayforce.
• Reviews and initial approval of monthly payroll for Chile and Peru operations.
• Completes monthly reconciliation and administrative tasks for international payroll.
• Manages system enrollment for new employees and audits/adjusts existing employees as needed. Ensures departing employees are paid accurately and within regulatory requirements.
• Coordinates with People Team to review and authorize payroll related transactions or data adjustments, including salary/wage changes, balance corrections (vacation/leave), and more.
• Manages year end payroll reporting, such as T4’s, W2 etc.
• Manages system reconciliation for payroll and vacation for company operations.
• Completes payroll calculations for hourly employees, including overtime & statutory pay.
• Completes and files WorkSafe related payroll forms/tax returns.
• Acts within company policy when handling payroll, benefits, and leave related inquiries.
• Reviewing and confirming eligibility for enrollment into company benefits plans, including but not limited to Group Retirement Savings, 401k, and applicable health plans (Canada & USA).
• Compiles financial payroll and tax reports for the purpose of internal review and external audit.
• Ensures the company remains fully compliant with payroll regulations, benefits requirements, and employment standards.
• Actively follows and incorporates payroll regulation changes, including CRA/IRS updates, into payroll practices and processes.
• Acts as a subject matter expert and liaison for payroll – organizes and conducts training sessions for existing and new staff as required.
• Coordinates and interacts with federal, provincial, and state (US) entities on special inquiries related to employee payroll & compensation.
• Acts as a key Dayforce subject matter expert, supporting configuration improvements, troubleshooting issues, and enhancing payroll workflows and system functionality.
• Additional duties as occasionally required by your manager.

Senior Payroll and Benefits Specialist

• Participate in full cycle biweekly payroll processing for 700+ employees
• Respond to all payroll inquiries
• Update employee changes within BST and ADP software
• Assist with benefits administration and taxable benefits, in coordination with HR
• Prepare workers compensation and other payroll statutory filings for all BGC jurisdictions
• Run various reports as needed
• Issue ROEs and respond to Service Canada requests
• Assist in completing year end reporting requirements and reconciliations
• Assist with other payroll duties, as assigned

• Running payroll on time, making changes to payroll (adding/removing employees, adding/removing deductions, etc.), handling the T4 process, and submitting ROE forms, amongst other payroll duties
• Answering often complex inquiries from clients related to payroll, providing recommendations and problem-solving, and analyzing data, all while maintaining compliance, accuracy, and efficiency
• Processing end-to-end payroll for multiple clients with different pay frequencies EHT, WCB filings for multiple provinces
• Reviewing CRA accounts and responding to notices
• Correspondence with clients and the bookkeeping team to ensure timely service and a hands-off experience
• Champion process improvements and contribute to the development of departmental best practices
• Act as a technical resource for the team, supporting knowledge sharing and complex payroll inquiries

Lead Senior Specialist, Payroll

• Manage payroll cycles for an expanding client portfolio, ensuring 100% compliance with federal, provincial, and local Canadian regulations.
• Handle complex new-hire imports, timesheet uploads, adjustments, incentives, and voluntary deductions within the HRIS.
• Review and calculate accurate pay changes for promotions, new hires, transfers, and final termination payouts.
• Resolve payroll discrepancies, process off-cycle manual checks, and generate robust audit reports for clients.

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Payroll Specialist

Country Lead, North America Payroll

Workday Payroll Consultant, Canada

Payroll Specialist – 12 Month Contract

Payroll Administrator

Technicien – Paie

Manager, North American Payroll Services

Payroll Specialist II

Payroll Lead, Enterprise Time and Attendance System

Payroll Coordinator

Payroll Coordinator, Bilingual

Technicien(ne) paie

Senior Global Vendor Specialist – Payroll

Payroll and Benefits Specialist

Senior Manager, Global Payroll Systems – Equity Operations

Senior Payroll Clerk

Senior Payroll and Benefits Specialist

Payroll Administrator

Lead Senior Specialist, Payroll

Payroll Specialist, Bilingual