Payroll and Benefits Specialist
Role Overview
The role administers bi-weekly payroll for more than 250 employees, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and confidentiality.
The specialist maintains payroll records, resolves discrepancies, and supports HR and Finance teams.
The posting title is Payroll and Benefits Specialist; the description also calls the position Payroll Administrator.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
The role administers bi-weekly payroll for more than 250 employees, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and confidentiality.
The specialist maintains payroll records, resolves discrepancies, and supports HR and Finance teams.
The posting title is Payroll and Benefits Specialist; the description also calls the position Payroll Administrator.
Responsibilities
- Process accurate, timely bi-weekly payroll in ADP Workforce Now.
- Maintain employee payroll records and verify timesheets, hours worked, and pay rates.
- Calculate wages, overtime, vacation pay, bonuses, deductions, and benefits.
- Ensure compliance with payroll laws and regulations; prepare reports for management and government bodies.
- Reconcile payroll accounts, resolve discrepancies, and respond to employee inquiries.
- Coordinate employee changes, terminations, and benefits with HR and Finance.
- Maintain strict confidentiality and manage employee benefits through Sun Life and Canada Life.
Qualifications
- Post-secondary education in accounting, finance, business administration, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 3–5 years of related work experience.
- Knowledge of payroll legislation and compliance; proficiency with payroll systems, ADP Workforce Now, and Microsoft Office.
- Strong accuracy, attention to detail, confidentiality, organization, time management, analysis, problem solving, and communication.
- Ability to collaborate with HR, Finance, and management and adapt to changing laws, policies, technology, and deadlines.
- PCP designation is considered an asset.
Workplace
- The posting states that the position is on-site full-time.
- Primary location is 114 Industrial Drive, Whitby; occasional work is listed at 1850 Clements Road, Pickering.
Compensation
- Annual compensation is $65,000–$75,000, based on experience.
About Signature Aluminum
Signature Aluminum Canada Ltd. manufactures and supplies precision aluminum products to industries across North America.
The company describes its workplace as collaborative and safety-focused.
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