Payroll and Benefits Manager, Stoney Creek

ASI Group Ltd. is seeking a Payroll and Benefits Manager to lead accurate, compliant, and timely payroll and benefits administration across ASI Group’s multi-national companies.

Location: Stoney Creek, Ontario
Work Location: In person
Salary: CA $85,000.00 – CA$ per year
Date Posted: July 17, 2026
Position: Full time, permanent

This role owns payroll processing for both unionized and non-union employees across multiple provinces and countries, manages group benefits and retirement savings plan (RSP) administration, and builds the scalable payroll infrastructure needed to support a growing, multi-entity organization.

This is a hands-on leadership role. The successful candidate will manage payroll operations directly while building the processes, controls, reporting, and systems needed to support the organization’s continued growth.

• Maintain, verify and process payroll records, including new hires, terminations (records of employment), salary changes and deductions.
• Process accurate, on-time payroll for all employees across Canada and the United States, ensuring compliance with each jurisdiction’s Employment Standards Act, state labour laws, and prevailing wage reporting requirements; while accurately allocating payroll labour costs to the appropriate projects, cost centres, and departments to support project costing and financial reporting.
• Administer payroll for unionized employees in accordance with applicable collective agreements, including overtime rules, shift premiums, and distribution/equalization requirements.
• Oversee overtime authorization and tracking processes, working with operations leaders to ensure hours are accurately recorded and approved.
• Process employee reimbursement, ensuring they are accurately recorded and approved.
• Process and manage vacation accrual, statutory holiday pay, and leave-related pay adjustments in line with company policy and applicable legislation.
• Process and reconcile government remittances in compliance with federal and provincial regulatory requirements; coordinate with Accounts Payable to facilitate payment processing.
• Administer group health benefits enrollment, changes, and terminations for eligible employees.
• Administer the company Retirement Savings Plan (RSP), including enrollment, contributions, and employee inquiries.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for benefits providers and brokers and support annual renewal and plan design discussions.
• Reconcile union dues and prepare remittance submissions

• Maintain compliance with employment standards, tax remittance, and reporting obligations across all jurisdictions of operation.
• Maintain accurate, audit-ready payroll records and personnel file standards in coordination with HR.
• Partner with Finance on payroll-related journal entries, accruals, and month-end close activities.
• Support internal and external audits with timely, accurate payroll and benefits documentation.
• Manage workers’ compensation administration, including claims coordination, premium remittances, and compliance with provincial and state workers’ compensation board requirements.

• Act as a key hands-on contributor to the HRIS/payroll system implementation, including vendor configuration, data migration, testing, and go-live support.
• Serve as the internal payroll subject-matter expert during system selection and implementation, translating payroll/compliance requirements into system configuration decisions.
• Build standardized, documented payroll and benefits processes to replace ad hoc or manual workflows.
• Identify and implement process improvements to reduce manual effort and error rates as the organization scales.

• 5+ years of progressive payroll experience, including multi-provincial payroll.
• International full-cycle payroll knowledge is highly valued; experience with US and Canadian payroll requirements is a strong asset given our multi-country/entity operations.
• Experience administering payroll in a unionized environment, including collective agreement interpretation, is required.
• Payroll Compliance Professional (PCP) or Certified Payroll Manager (CPM)…