Manager, Payroll Operations

The City of St. Albert is recruiting an experienced and strategic leader to join our Human Resources & Safety department as the Manager, Payroll Operations & Total Compensation.

Reporting to the Director, Human Resources & Safety, this position provides strategic and operational leadership for the City's payroll, benefits, pension administration, total compensation, HR information systems (HRIS), workforce analytics, and HR administrative services functions.

The Manager leads a multidisciplinary team and serves as the City's senior subject matter expert in total compensation, job evaluation, HR technology, and workforce analytics/reporting, providing advice and recommendations that support organizational effectiveness, compliance, and informed decision-making.

• Lead the development and implementation of the City's total compensation strategy, including compensation administration, job evaluation, classification, benefits, pension programs, compensation reviews, market studies, workforce costing, and total rewards initiatives.
• Provide strategic oversight of payroll operations to ensure accurate, timely, and compliant payroll processing.
• Provide expert advice to senior leaders on compensation, classification, benefits, payroll legislation, workforce trends, and organizational effectiveness.
• Lead the strategic direction, governance, and continuous improvement of the City's Human Resources Information System (HRIS).
• Sponsor HR technology implementation projects and business process modernization and optimization initiatives.
• Establish and advance workforce analytics, dashboards, key performance indicators, reporting frameworks, workforce metrics, legislative reporting requirements, and annual departmental reporting to support evidence-based decision-making.
• Lead HR administrative services, ensuring responsive, efficient, and customer-focused service delivery, while developing service standards, business processes, and continuous improvement initiatives that enhance efficiency, service delivery, and client experience.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and performance management to a multidisciplinary team.

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Commerce, Finance, Information Systems, or a related discipline, combined with at least seven (7) years of progressively responsible related experience, including leadership responsibilities; or a related diploma combined with at least ten (10) years of progressively responsible related experience, including leadership responsibilities.
• Experience in compensation and classification, payroll, benefits and pension administration, HRIS implementation and sustainment, and HR reporting.
• Must possess one of the following designations:
  Chartered Professional in Human Resources (CPHR), Payroll Compliance Practitioner (PCP), Payroll Leadership Professional (PLP), Certified Employee Benefit Specialist (CEBS), or Certified Compensation Professional (CCP).
• Extensive knowledge of total compensation programs, including compensation design, salary administration, job evaluation, payroll legislation, and pension and benefits administration.
• Experience with HRIS implementation, sustainment, upgrades, and process improvement initiatives.
• Municipal government experience is considered an asset.
• Equivalent combinations of experience and education may be considered.

• We offer a compressed bi-weekly work schedule of 72 hours, Monday - Friday, 8:00 – 5:00, with a biweekly regular day off (RDO).
• Benefit from flexible work hours by adjusting your start and end times by 30 or 60 minutes around our core hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• The salary ranges from $ - $ per year, including a comprehensive benefits package with a flexible spending account, pension plan, and accrued paid vacation starting at 4 weeks per year.
• Learn more about our benefits here:
  Employee Benefits Booklet
• Candidates not meeting the full qualifications may be considered for a development opportunity at a lower classification and salary.

• Eligible to apply for a Hybrid Remote Work arrangement, with a minimum of 51% of work time spent onsite and the remainder worked remotely. Employees are eligible to participate in this program after 3 months of employment, subject to satisfactory performance.
• You will receive a Flexible Spending Account limit at the beginning of each calendar year (permanent full time $400).
• Employees can purchase an annual Recreation Access Pass for $87 + tax, granting unlimited access to Servus Credit Union Place (excluding PLAYcare and registered programs), Fountain Park Recreation Centre, and Grosvenor Outdoor Pool.

• The successful candidate will be required to provide proof of educational and professional credentials.
• The successful applicant will be required to obtain a satisfactory police information check.
• Please note that the presence of charges or convictions does not automatically preclude an individual from…