Payroll Administrator

About the Opportunity Payroll, Employee Benefits, and Pension Administration

• Prepare bi-weekly payroll with accuracy and attention to timeliness, approved by the Manager, Finance and Accounting.
• Process new hires, terminations, leaves of absence, promotions, and salary adjustments.
• Prepare and submit all payroll filings, including annual T4s and T4 Summary, Relevé 1 and all relevant statutory remittance filings.
• Administer employee benefit programs, including health, dental, life insurance, disability, pension, and RRSP.
• Reconcile monthly benefit invoices and ensure accurate billing.
• Assist employees with benefit inquiries and claims-related issues.
• Maintain records related to employee payroll, benefits, and pension plans.
• Support annual benefits renewals and communication of plan changes.
• Coordinate and submit pension annual reporting with FSRA.
• Prepare and review T4A receipting for taxable athlete payments.
• Propose and implement process improvements to streamline the flow of information regarding employee changes impacting payroll.
• Maintain knowledge of changes to relevant payroll regulations.
• Track payroll expenditures to budget, provide commentary on variances between actual and budget and prepare summary for reporting to the Human Resources Committee.
• Support the annual and quadrennial payroll and benefits budgeting by providing data for financial planning and forecasting.
• Maintain confidentiality of employee payroll and benefits information.

• Prepare and record journal entries including analysis and preparation of year-end accruals.
• Prepare and maintain assigned payroll balance sheet account reconciliations
• Adhere to month-end close deadlines and participate in month-end discussions
• Track expenses and preparing billing request for third party organization
• Support internal and external audits by providing payroll and benefits documentation.

• Have a Payroll Compliance Professional (PCP) or Payroll Leadership Professional (PLP) designation.
• 3–5 years of progressive payroll and benefits administration experience.
• Experience processing payroll for medium to large organizations.
• Experience with payroll systems such as Ceridian, ADP, Workday, SAP etc.
• Strong knowledge of Canadian payroll legislation and employment standards.
• Knowledge of payroll accounting and general ledger reconciliations.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including pivot table, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP.

$65,000 - $76,000 per year

This position for employment is for a current vacancy with

Vaco/Highspring’sclient. You must currently reside within the Greater Toronto Area and be permitted to work in Canada to be considered for this opportunity.