Payroll Officer Jobs

Active opportunity to join fast paced team part of large scale public service organisation as Payroll Officer. This is a Temporary assignment for initial 18+ months with the view to fully integrate with the existing team.

Payroll Officer The Role:

• Process regular additional payments (e.g. overtime, shift premium, on-call, coordinator allowances) and manage FOAPAL splits where required.
• Calculate and validate the pro-ration of new hire and terminations first/last pay including vacation proration using Excel formulas
• Process hourly, salary and step increases annually in accordance with compensation policies and collective agreements.
• Calculate and process manual cheques upon request (pay advances and replacement cheques), manually calculate deductions, net pay and make corresponding updates in Ceridian Dayforce.
• Analyze paperwork and decentralized data input provided by internal stakeholders (e.g. HR, employees, etc.) to ensure completeness, compliance and accuracy against the College’s Collective Agreements, internal policies and/or ESA legislated standards.
• Accountable for the processing, auditing and balancing of semi-monthly and biweekly payrolls for both union and non-union employees. Collectively, 3,000+ employees over 5 pay groups.
• Calculate and process statutory holiday pay.

Requirements:

• Solid accounting knowledge related to payroll and benefits in a large organization with multiple cost centres, the application of internal controls
• PCP Designation from National Payroll Institute – Required.
• Experience with computerized payroll HRIS system (Banner or Ceridian).
• Highly effective customer service and collaborative skills including the ability to work successfully in a team environment and independently is required.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in high volume, fast-paced payroll department, preferably with medium to large unionized public sector organization.
• PLP Designation is an Asset.
• Experience with external and internal audits.
• Experience with high volume T4/T4A reconciliation and processing.