Senior Payroll Manager

ChangeMakers; Canada; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading firm as a Senior Payroll Manager, overseeing payroll functions and ensuring compliance with regulations. You will manage a team, collaborate with HR, and implement payroll systems. Ideal candidates have extensive payroll experience and relevant certifications.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years’ experience in payroll management.
• National Payroll Association Payroll Compliance Practitioner (PCP) Certification.
• UKG payroll and HR (implementation) experience.

Responsibilities

• Manages payroll functions ensuring compliance with regulations.
• Recruits, hires, and trains new staff in the department.
• Implements and reviews payroll processing systems.

Skills

Organizational Skills

Analytical Skills

Problem-Solving Skills

Leadership Skills

Education

Post-secondary education in accounting/financial/payroll studies

Tools

UKG Payroll Software

Microsoft Office Suite

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The Senior Payroll Manager will manage the organization’s payroll functions, ensuring pay is processed on time, accurately, and in compliance with government regulations. The Senior Payroll Manager will be responsible for hiring and training new staff in the department, and will collaborate closely with HR on UKG system processes, including data integrity, reporting, and workflow alignment.

Skills & Responsibilities

• Recruits, interviews, hires, and trains new staff in the department
• Oversees and manages the daily workflow of the department
• Provides constructive and timely performance evaluations
• Implements, maintains, and reviews payroll processing systems to ensure timely and accurate processing of payroll transactions including salaries, benefits, garnishments, taxes, and other deductions
• Ensures accurate and timely processing of payroll updates including new hires, terminations, and changes to pay rates
• Supports HR in UKG processes, including business intelligence (BI) reporting, data validation, and system optimization
• Collaborates with HR to troubleshoot and improve UKG workflows related to employee data, timekeeping, and onboarding
• Prepares and maintains accurate records and reports of payroll transactions
• Ensures compliance with federal, provincial employment laws and best practices
• Facilitates audits by providing records and documentation to auditors
• Identifies and recommends updates to payroll processing software, systems, and procedures
• Performs other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

Required:

• Minimum 8 years’ experience in payroll management
• National Payroll Association Payroll Compliance Practitioner (PCP) Certification and/ or National Payroll Association Payroll Leadership Professional (PLP) Certification
• UKG payroll and HR (implementation) experience
• Post-secondary education in accounting/financial/payroll studies
• Successful background check

Skills/Abilities:

• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Extensive knowledge of the payroll function including preparation, balancing, internal control, and payroll taxes
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong supervisory and leadership skills
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software
• Proficient with payroll software
• High level of integrity, confidentiality, and accountability

We are ChangeMakers

ChangeMakers is a 400+ person independent reputation management, social impact and marketing firm with offices throughout Canada and in the US. ChangeMakers combines deep business specialization with human-centered strategies, working alongside our clients to succeed in a disruptive world.

ChangeMakers is committed to advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion in all its forms, a commitment that enriches our company culture, the ideas that we generate, and the quality of service that we provide our clients. We encourage applications from Indigenous communities, racialized communities, women, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ2S+ people, and people from other historically marginalized communities.

ChangeMakers is committed to providing employment accommodation under the Human Rights Code and the Accessibility Disabilities Act provincially by providing employment accommodations. If you are a job applicant with a disability, ChangeMakers will make every effort to accommodate you throughout the recruitment process. Please inform us if you require any accommodation, and we will work with you to meet your needs.

At ChangeMakers we recognize that the best candidate may not meet all the criteria listed above. We encourage all those interested and with relevant experience to apply even if you don’t match the job posting perfectly. We welcome creative, out-of-the-box thinking, and lived-experience and we strive to provide an environment for best-in-class innovation that quickly and fulsomely meets our clients’ needs.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Finance

• Industries

  Business Consulting and Services

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