Payroll Accountant Jobs

Full time

Saskatoon

Join our aviation-passionate team based in the land of living skies, Saskatchewan, a great place to live and raise your family. We are Saskatchewan's largest full-service airline and here is your opportunity to join us and work with colleagues who will bring out the best of you. At Rise Air, we offer more than a job, we offer the opportunity to live and work in a vibrant, affordable, growing province, a positive environment, inspiring culture, strong values and career growth.

Rise Air is proudly 100 per cent Indigenous owned. We work together with our ownership, communities, stakeholders and industry partners to strengthen Indigenous employee relationships.

Job Purpose The payroll accountant is responsible to oversee employee payroll for Rise Air and Snowbird Aviation Services employees including payroll calculations, deductions, tax filings and payment of employee benefit and retirement plan premiums and contributions and ensure that payroll is processed in a timely and accurate manner. This position handles confidential information on a regular basis.

Primary Responsibilities

Payroll

• Maintain manual and electronic employee payroll records.
• Liaise with human resources personnel as required to ensure accurate employee record
• Review electronic timecards and other pay documents for accuracy and completeness, and ensure they are authorized for processing in accordance with company policies and procedures and collective bargaining agreements.
• Execute payroll transactions utilizing payroll/accounting software including transmitting, processing, and generating payroll runs and create associated journal entries for reconciliation and month end reports.
• Deduct, reconcile, and remit amounts ordered to be withheld though garnishment, third party demand (e.g., retirement plan, social fund, union dues and receiver general payments, as required), or support deduction orders.
• Prepare records of employment and final payments for departing employees.
• Set up employees, monitor submissions of approved timecards and ensure valid data transfers to and from payroll service through the electronic timecard system.
• Process year-end adjustments, including T4s, to meet Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) deadlines.
• Report and remit assessable earnings to provincial Workers Compensation Boards where
• Maintain year to date individual employee vacation balances both earned and accrued.
• Assist with additional duties as assigned, which includes cross training with other finance
• Maintain paper and electronic payroll records, employee records, and necessary records and documentation for billing and reporting purposes.
• Ability to interpret the Canada Labour Code's labour standards regulations.
• Respond to and direct pay-related inquiries from employees to the appropriate personnel.
• Work closely with information technology personnel to identify opportunities to increase effectiveness of system utilization, integration with other company systems, response time and software capabilities/needs.

Reporting and Planning

• Participate in department meetings and activities, providing advice as appropriate.
• Meet payroll operational standards by contributing information to strategic plans and reviews.
• Meet payroll financial standards by providing annual budget information, monitoring expenditures, identifying variances, and implementing corrective actions.
• Provide monthly and/or annual reports, correspondences, statistical summaries, and other materials as required.
• Develop best practices to improve efficiency of the payroll process.
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by staying up to date on latest changes and/or update to legislation and software usage.

Qualifications

Typically, the knowledge and skills required for this position include post-secondary education in accounting, finance or related field from an accredited college or university, with a minimum five years' experience in accounting and payroll administration. Payroll association certification, and experience in the aviation industry with a working knowledge of HR cycles and accounting software such as Sage 300 is an asset. A combination of education and experience may be considered.

You Must Have

• Strong verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
• Proficient in utilizing Microsoft Office applications and payroll/HRMS software. Ability to support, strengthen and enhance safety initiatives
• Sound problem solving, decision-making, analytical thinking, planning, prioritization, and execution skills.
• Excellent time management skills with the ability to organize, multi-task and prioritize.
• Ability to take initiative and ownership of projects and tasks and execute effectively and in a timely manner.
• Professional judgement and well-defined conflict resolution skills in handling sensitive situations with tact, diplomacy, and high ethical standards.
• Proven relationship management skills and demonstrated ability to influence, collaborate and negotiate with both internal partners and external stakeholders to achieve results.
• Strong self-leadership skills and a hands-on, self-motivated, and demonstrated positive, can-do

Only applicants who are selected for further screening will be contacted.

Rise Air is committed to employment equity, diversity and inclusion and we actively support career opportunities for Indigenous people. We work towards creating a respectful environment to explore, learn and communicate and our programs are directly influenced by our organizational values of safety, service, integrity, sustainability and passion. We actively recruit individuals who add their diverse voices and contributions that define the success of our company. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, in accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority. If you have a disability or medical necessity, please notify us and we will work together on your accommodation request.

Preference is given to qualified Indigenous applicants who apply for positions with Rise Air.

We respectfully acknowledge that we are situated on the territories of Indigenous peoples who have occupied these lands for thousands of years, including the First Nations of Treaty 6 (Saskatoon, Prince Albert, La Ronge), Treaty 8 (Black Lake, Fond du Lac, Stony Rapids, Uranium City), and Treaty 10 (Lac la Ronge, Hatchet Lake, Wollaston Lake, Buffalo Narrows), as well as other on-Treaty First Nations and Metis. We recognize that we benefit from the lands. We are dedicated to ensuring that the spirit of reconciliation is honoured and respected and together we are inspiring Indigenization at the heart of Rise Air.