Senior Office Accountant - Payroll

Position Description: Oversee activity for processing weekly trades' and biweekly staff payroll, including off-cycle payroll and postings. Track, analyze, troubleshoot, and audit payroll data.

Reports to: Accounting Manager, Payroll & Payroll Tax

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Manage process to validate payroll checklists to ensure processes are complete.
• Authorize positive pay files for payroll checks issued, ACH files daily, and initiate stop payment requests.
• Verify reporting of contributions to Union Pension and Health plans.
• Conduct scheduled and ad hoc payroll audits on processes and data to ensure data integrity and compliance with company policy and legal requirements; includes, union audits, claims reporting, address setup audits, International tax and VISA set-ups, etc.
• Manage bank exception items on Payroll accounts by researching through proper channels to resolution.
• Main point of contact for business units and auditors, coordinate requests for payroll documents and responses to Union audits.
• Analyze and extract Union pay scale table data from collective bargaining agreements to ensure current and accurate Union payroll information.
• Review weekly, bi-weekly and month-end payroll postings and maintain database to validate completion.
• Maintain activity rates for trade employees.
• Facilitate cross-functional team environment to ensure identifying test data, execution of payroll testing and validation for system bug fixes and enhancements are completed and communicated accurately and timely.
• Prepare and verify monthly payroll metrics, ensure information such as number of off-cycle payrolls, late timesheets received, and number of retroactive payrolls processed is available. Present recommendations for resolutions on current outstanding issues and process improvements based on findings to Payroll Managers.
• Research, resolve and respond to issues with payroll postings from business units.
• Analyze payroll balance sheet and bank reconciliations and ensure entries for correcting reconciliation items are prepared and entered by payroll staff.
• Prepare and deliver training to Payroll group.
• Other activities, duties, and responsibilities as assigned.

The salary range for this position is estimated to be $79,00.00 - $95,000.00 CAD annualized.