Payroll Specialist

Deltera Inc.; Canada; On-site; CAD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Tridel is seeking a Payroll Specialist to administer accurate, efficient payroll for 1,000+ employees across the Tridel Group. This role ensures compliance with Canadian payroll laws, handles full cycle payroll, and maintains confidential records in a hybrid in-office environment.

You will coordinate data from multiple sources, audit processing, and support reporting, CRA, EHT and WSIB balances, while identifying process improvements.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of hands-on experience in full cycle payroll processing including time and attendance tracking.
• Knowledge of Canadian employment law, payroll legislation and accounting principles.
• Certification as a Payroll Compliance Practitioner with Canadian Payroll Association.
• Strong organization skills, attention to detail and follow through to resolve issues.
• Hands-on approach to daily tasks with confidential data handling.
• Strong interpersonal skills, both written and verbal.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate weekly, biweekly, monthly, and quarterly payroll processing for 1,000+ employees using Ceridian Dayforce.
• Review data from multiple sources to ensure accuracy and compliance with laws and policies.
• Process data entry changes and verify information is complete and accurate.
• Troubleshoot time and attendance including overtime and vacation.
• Audit payroll processing and ensure all payrolls are processed on schedule.
• Coordinate processing for new hires and terminations; prepare reports and invoices.
• Assist with CRA, EHT and WSIB monthly balancing and reporting.
• Maintain payroll SOPs and confidential personnel files; suggest process improvements.
• Assist with record keeping and department maintenance.

Skills

Payroll processing

Time and attendance

Data verification

Excel proficiency

Attention to detail

Education

Post-secondary in Accounting/Business/Finance

Payroll Compliance Practitioner certification

Tools

Ceridian Dayforce

Excel

Job description

Job Description

Posted Thursday, August 6, 2026 at 4:00 AM

Join Tridel: Building Communities, Growing Careers

Build Your Future with Us

Our strength, innovation and growth are the result of talented individuals who come together as a team to build sustainable and award-winning homes and communities. Through passion and dedication, our employees work collectively to develop some of the largest and most complex projects within the Greater Toronto Area. We recognize our employees are the key to our success, and we invest in creating a meaningful employee experience and culture that promotes:

• A diverse and robust suite of benefits and perks
• Social and sustainable impact within our company and the communities we build, and much more.

As a Tridel employee, you contribute to our purpose and standard of excellence while building homes for people today and the generations of tomorrow.

Please note that this job posting reflects an existing vacancy within our organization and the role is hybrid (minimum 3 days in office).

As part of our hiring process, applicants are required to complete a brief (5–10 minute) Predictive Index® Behavioural Assessment.

This assessment does not measure intelligence or experience; rather, it helps us understand your natural work and communication preferences.

The Payroll Specialist administers accurate, efficient, and timely payroll for employees across the Tridel Group of Companies. This role plays a key role in ensuring compliance with all regulatory and legislative procedures related to payroll processing, maintaining accuracy in payroll calculations, and promptly addressing any employee inquiries or issues.

A Glimpse of Your Daily Activities

• Coordinate weekly, biweekly, monthly, and quarterly full cycle payroll processing using Ceridian Dayforce for 1,000+ employees
• Review and verify data from a variety of sources to ensure accuracy and compliance with legal and statutory requirements, employment agreements, payroll policies and procedures.
• Process data entry changes and verify information is complete and accurate.
• Troubleshoot time and attendance including overtime, vacation etc.
• Validate deductions and adjustments are correctly calculated.
• Audit payroll processing.
• Ensure all payrolls are processed accurately and on schedule.
• Coordinate processing all new hires and terminations.
• Prepare invoices and reports in a timely manner following payroll processing deadlines.
• Address and resolve employee complaints relating to their payroll.
• Assist with reporting, file achieves, record keeping, and overall department maintenance and accuracy.
• Assist with monthly balance of CRA, EHT and WSIB.
• Maintain personnel files with appropriate payroll forms while ensuring confidentiality.
• Maintain payroll standard operating procedure manuals.
• Recommend efficiency improvements and revisions to existing procedures and processes.

The Architect of Your Success

• Certification as a Payroll Compliance Practitioner with the Canadian Payroll Association.
• Post-secondary education in Accounting, Business or Finance with a focus on Payroll.
• 3-5 years of hands-on experience in full cycle payroll processing including time and attendance tracking.
• Knowledge of Canadian employment law, payroll legislation and accounting principles.
• Strong organization skills, attention to detail and follow through to resolve any outstanding issues.
• Hands on approach to daily tasks.
• Strong interpersonal skills, both written and verbal.
• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills.

Who We Are

Founded in 1934, Tridel is responsible for delivering over 90,000 homes to date, and we are proud to continue building not just our legacy but communities for years to come.

As a purpose-driven company guided by our ‘Built for Life®’ commitment, we create socially and environmentally responsible communities and invest in innovations that promote quality, sustainability, high performance in construction, social inclusion and cohesion, and community economic development. As an award-winning company, we are proud to be recognized as an industry leader for excellence in design and construction, green building, corporate social responsibility, diversity, equity and inclusion, customer service, and more.

Supporting Inclusion & Belonging

Tridel is committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities where we build, where everyone feels they belong, is physically and psychologically safe, and can reach their full potential. We embrace diversity while reinforcing equity and inclusion and are committed to building a team with a range of experiences and skills. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage all qualified individuals to apply, including those who self-identify as Indigenous in Canada (First Nations, Métis, Inuit), are from racialized communities, and persons with disabilities. We remain committed to a barrier-free recruitment and selection process and will provide accommodation upon request. If you require accommodation at any stage of the recruitment process, please email your request to [e-mail] . All information received will be handled in strict confidence.

As part of Tridel Group of Companies’ recruitment and selection process, we utilize Artificial Intelligence (AI) for candidate screening.