Payroll Consultant

Job Description  Posted Thursday, January 29, 2026 at 11:00 AM | Expires Friday, January 1, 2027 at 10:59 AM
If you are up for the challenge and would like to be considered for this position, we would like to hear from you. The British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (BC SPCA) is looking to fill the following career opportunity:
POSITION:  Payroll Consultant
STATUS:  Temporary;
Full-Time (6 Months)
SHIFT:  Monday to Friday - 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
CLASSIFICATION:  Exempt
Please submit your resume and cover to complete your application.
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The BC SPCA is a dynamic organization with facilities and services across the province of BC. Join an expanding people-focused team in an exciting time of change in an organization that makes a difference! Please read below for additional details and let us know if you have the skills and experience we are looking for by submitting your application.
About the Position:
Join a people-focused team in an exciting time of change in an organization that makes a difference! The BC SPCA is a dynamic organization with facilities and services across the province of BC. This temporary position reports to the Chief People Officer and will be completing important Payroll tasks/analysis to help us evolve to higher levels of functioning. You will be part of a larger, bustling team that also performs volunteer resources and various other exciting organizational support duties.
You will ensure the organization is supporting the people who get paid to support the animals in our care. Your work is grounded in payroll best practices, legal/collective agreement compliance, and based on organizational current and future needs. Ideally, you are a pro at using Dayforce, which is the HRIS we use. You will work closely with the existing Payroll Team over a period of 6 months.
Please read below for additional details and let us know if you have the skills and experience we are looking for by submitting your application.
This position will be part of our Provincial Office team based out of Vancouver and is intended to work a hybrid role (2 days/week in office), but we are open to considering candidates located anywhere in the province of BC. Actual hours of work during the day are flexible as long as you can commit to our core hours of 9:30am-2:30pm.
Some specific duties include:
Payroll Procedures Analysis & Documentation (80%):
In collaboration with the Payroll Team, observe end ‑ to ‑ end payroll processing for all employee groups over a series of pay periods.  Draft a Payroll Procedures manual template.
Once the template is approved, capture the details of current payroll procedures and consult with Payroll Team to ensure accuracy.

Provide recommendations for consideration around enhancing the effectiveness of the payroll processing process including in the areas of system set up, enhanced reporting, work flows, roles and responsibilities, payroll changes, and key controls.
Complete a risk assessment to contribute to a departmental and organizational risk register as it related to payroll matters generally.
Provide recommendations on potential training around payroll to improve compliance across the organization from individual contributors accessing the system to managers approving payroll to system administrators of the Dayforce system.
Analyze the challenges and opportunities involved in better integrating Dayforce and Vena to ensure seamless transfer of required information between People Services and Finance (e.g. GL codes, position tracking, etc).  Provide ideas, recommendations and coaching as required.

Assist the Chief People Officer and other members of the People Services team with an analysis of enhanced Dayforce capabilities both within the existing modules as well as on potential additional modules that could improve users’…