Roles and Responsibilities:

• Process Canadian weekly and biweekly cycles accurately and timely.
• Monitor and oversee the integrity of pay using established guidelines and pay procedures.
• Maintain full knowledge and documentation of pay processes and guidelines.
  
• Provide front-line support to Canadian locations by researching and analyzing questions or concerns for payroll users and internal/external customers and suppliers.
• This includes front-line support for Workday payroll and Kronos timekeeping questions.
  
• Coordinate and complete payroll tax activities with our outsourcing vendor ensuring payments are made timely and completing year-end activities including T4â??s
  
• Understand garnishment laws to ensure correct priority setting and timely remittance of all family support, levies, and garnishments.
  
• Review process design in Workday system for efficiency and to ensure accurate and timely pay.
  
• Play a lead role in the testing and implementation of upgrades for all payroll related systems, including Workday and Kronos.
  
• Play a lead role in conversion project regarding locations that need to move from outsourced payroll to Workday payroll system.
  
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and take appropriate action, i.e.: check sheeting, charting recommended process changes, etc to initiate improvement.
• Develop and maintain customer/supplier relationship through ongoing expectation exchanges, through feedback and problem solving.
  
• Play a lead role in the integration of acquisitions including, but not limited to payroll setup, parallel testing, user training and support.
  
• Identify and solve root causes of discrepancies in payroll and tax related matters.
  
• Support coordination, planning and scheduling of new and existing projects; serve as a subject matter expert and communicate status, define and track milestones by developing project plans, along with effective collaboration with all affected areas of the organization.
  
• General Ledger reconciliation of payroll accounts.
  

Skills, Experience, and Education:

• Accurate and attentive to detail
  
• Possess strong analytical skills
  
• Must be able to communicate effectively within and between departments and to all levels within the organization as well as external customers; critical in all aspects of payroll related project management to keep all areas informed
  
• Possess good judgment and problem solving skills
  
• Ability to work independently or as part of a cross functional team
  
• Balance team and individual responsibilities by effectively prioritizing workload to meet payroll and project related deadlines
  
• Possess good planning and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities
  
• Adapt quickly and efficiently to new situations, cope effectively with pressure and deadlines
  
• Ability to work with and maintain confidential information
  
• Ability to train and/or mentor new employees, team members and Field HR
  
• Experience with system conversions; payroll and time and attendance
  
• Be proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook
  
• Ability to generate reports requested for both internal and external customers
  
• Workday experience required
  
• Kronos experience preferred
  
• Bachelor??s Degree Required: Business or Accounting
  
• Three to Five yearsâ?? experience processing Canadian payrolls
  

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