Analyst jobs in Canada

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Effective November 1, 2025 this position is not open to residents of Quebec; applicants must reside in a province or territory of Canada other than Quebec to be considered. Any roles available in Quebec will be posted separately.

As a Senior Payroll Tax Analyst, you will take on a leadership role within your team, handling escalations, delivering presentations, and driving innovative solutions. You will also lead a pod of Payroll Tax Analysts, ensuring team efficiency and productivity. Our goal is to ensure employees are taxed correctly, which can be demonstrated by a customer’s W-2 Forms at year end. We aim for W-2Cs to be less than 1% of the W-2s produced for our customers.

• Leadership of Payroll Tax Analysts: Serve as the first point-of-contact for Payroll Tax Analysts, guiding them in their roles and responsibilities.
• Customer Escalations: Take the lead on customer calls to mitigate escalations, providing top-tier leadership and expertise.
• Best Practice Presentations: Deliver best practice and customer-specific presentations to clients and internal teams, demonstrating advanced knowledge and leadership. Ensure proactive communication within the team.
• Proactive Communication: Respond promptly to the team and customers, even when not readily available, and call-in other leaders to assist when necessary.
• Innovation and Strategy: Drive innovative solutions, align with business strategy, and provide recommendations for continuous improvement, embodying an open-minded approach and avoiding a "that's what we've always done" mentality.
• Knowledge Sharing: Actively share knowledge and expertise with seniors and the team to ensure we scale effectively.
• Customer Assignments: The principal payroll tax analyst may have their own customers and will be responsible for the key responsibilities listed under the payroll tax analyst role.
• Leadership Projects: Help leadership with projects that are paramount to leading the team forward by showing initiation and completing the project.

• 5+ years of experience in payroll tax, human resources, or payroll administration or relevant experience.
• High school diploma or GED required; bachelor’s degree preferred.
• FPC or CPP certification required within two years.
• Demonstrated leadership and advanced problem-solving skills.

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We encourage individuals to apply based on their passions.

Dayforce encourages personal and professional growth. We offer excellent time away from work programs, comprehensive wellness initiatives and recognition through competitive pay and benefits.

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Please note that the salary range mentioned in this job description should serve simply as a guide. The final compensation offered may vary based on a variety of factors, including bonuses and/or incentives, or a candidate’s experience, skills, budget and location. Our company is committed to providing a fair, equitable, and competitive package that reflects the value an individual brings to the organization.

Proficiency in English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with English-speaking stakeholders, co-workers, managers and/or clients across the world. Further, our back office support teams, including but not limited to Human Resources, are primarily English speaking. Employees need to be able to communicate with these departments in English to appropriately administer their business relationship. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English-speaking co-workers, managers, stakeholders and/or clients, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement.

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