Senior Payroll Analyst, Bilingual

Role overview

Experience and qualifications

• At least five years of progressive Canadian payroll experience in large, multi-jurisdictional organizations.
• Requires in-depth knowledge of Canadian payroll legislation, statutory remittances, reconciliations, and year-end filings.
• The PCP designation is required; the PLP designation is an asset.
• Requires Workday Payroll experience, including testing, enhancements, change implementation, deployments, and process improvement projects.
• Requires analytical, reconciliation, problem-solving, organizational, and Excel skills, attention to detail, and ability to meet critical deadlines.
• Requires strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, ability to explain complex payroll issues, and team coaching experience.
• Professional spoken and written French and English are required to support employees and business partners across Canada.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex Canadian multi-jurisdictional payroll processing, balancing, validation, reconciliations, statutory remittances, and year-end filings.
• Investigate payroll issues and resolve retroactive calculations, corrections, discrepancies, escalations, and employee inquiries.
• Support Workday Payroll configuration, testing, user acceptance testing, system improvements, and payroll-related change implementation.
• Improve processes, documentation, internal controls, automation, and operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with HR, Finance, Treasury, Tax, HRIS, vendors, and auditors on payroll issues and audit requirements.
• Coach payroll analysts and provide technical guidance and best practices for complex situations.
• Prepare payroll reports and analyses, and support acquisitions, integrations, system implementations, and strategic or special projects.

Compensation

• The stated salary range is CAD $80,000 to $95,000 per year, with a bonus opportunity of up to 10%.