Payroll Compliance Professional Certification Required
Typical Responsibilities
- Monitors operations to ensure adherence to internal controls and achievement of quality, service standards and deadlines, and acts to correct concerns.
- Communicates with other units, staff, users and external parties to resolve complex and unusual issues.
- Designs and utilizes complex spreadsheets. Produces complex reports from databases using specialized software.
- Provides customer service support and assistance by explaining and demonstrating Payroll processes and application software.
- Participates in hiring of new staff, organizes and conducts training
Payroll Responsibilities
- Runs interfaces, conduct audit trails and uploads information into the payroll system to process payroll.
- Calculates payroll adjustments such as special and top-up payments, shift premiums, vacation pay, retroactive pay, benefit premium deduction adjustments, paid leave entitlements, and final payments; all in accordance with internal requirements such as collective agreements and employment contracts, and external regulations and requirements set by government agencies such as the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), Service Canada, Workers Compensation Board, BC Pension Corporation, etc.
- Analyzes, processes, and maintains sick leave entitlement banks, vacation entitlement banks, banked overtime, seniority dates, probation periods, and pay scale increment experience banks.
- Runs pay processing, reviews payroll register and deduction arrears register, runs audits and checks for accuracy.
- Determines and applies taxable benefits to ensure that T4s are accurately reported in compliance with Canada Revenue Agency requirements.
- Issues Records of Employment in accordance with complex Service Canada requirements whenever applicable.
Benefits Responsibilities
- Reviews, determines and administers benefit plan enrolments, changes, and terminations and sets up group benefit deductions in the payroll system in compliance with contractual obligations and benefit plan provisions.
- Coordinates Workers' Compensation recoveries with WorkSafe BC and applies required adjustments to pay, sick leave credits, tax deductions and T4 reporting.
Job Requirements KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES Knowledge
- Advanced level knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite of products relevant to the work, including Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
Skills And Abilities
- Skill in organizing and prioritizing work effectively to meet deadlines and achieve service standards.
- Superior accuracy, attention to detail, and mathematical abilities.
- Ability to communicate proficiently in oral and written English utilizing the terminology of business, payroll, and benefits.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, customer service and teamwork skills when dealing with internal and external stakeholders.
Training And Experience
- Diploma from a recognized post-secondary institution, in payroll, accounting, or business administration, plus training and experience with complex computerized payroll systems, word processing and spreadsheet software at an advanced level.
- Minimum of four years progressive, extensive experience directly related to the job requirements and responsibilities (preferably in the public sector) and in a similar computerized financial services environment in a large organization with collective agreements and multiple employee benefit plans, or an equivalent combination of training and experience.
LICENCES, CERTIFICATES AND REGISTRATIONS
- Payroll Compliance Practitioner (PCP) certification from the National Payroll Institute, required. Without this certification, your application cannot be considered.
the starting wage for this position is $37.51 per hour with an attractive benefit package
Qualified applicants can apply on Make a Future. The closing date for this position is Friday, May 9, 2025 at 4:00 pm PST. Note:
