Senior Corporate Payroll Analyst

4 days ago


Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada Nova Scotia Full time
Senior Corporate Payroll Analyst (Program Admin Officer 3)

Competition # : 45522

Department: Service Nova Scotia

Location: HALIFAX

Type of Employment: Permanent

Union Status: NSGEU - NSPG

Closing Date: 07-Apr-25 ( Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)

About Us

At Service Nova Scotia, we touch every citizen, business, and municipality in Nova Scotia. We conduct over five million client interactions each year through the various programs and services we deliver on behalf of government. We constantly strive towards making our programs and services more responsive to the needs and expectations of Nova Scotians. The Financial Services Division of Service Nova Scotia provides corporate financial support through four key teams: Payroll Services, Operational Accounting, Performance Excellence, and Collection Services.

About Our Opportunity

As the Senior Corporate Payroll Analyst, you will be responsible for oversight of specialized business functions and processes associated with the successful delivery of payroll processing, taxation, and fiscal and calendar year-end reporting for the Province of Nova Scotia and its clients through acting as a key integration point. You will provide professional expertise and guidance through investigation, research, and analysis of complex payroll-related issues such as taxable benefits, severance payments, retiring allowances, grievances, and settlements. The Senior Analyst will be responsible for troubleshooting complex, non-standard SAP processing and posting errors and will liaise with clients and technical support to resolve issues impacting accuracy of pay results, tax compliance, and financial reporting.

Primary Accountabilities

You will focus on the following main areas of responsibility:

  • SAP system changes – Leading initiatives and providing support behind annual support packs, taxation year-end updates, configuration changes, updates and maintenance of third-party interfaces, testing, coordination, etc.
  • Process improvements and project management – Taking a critical look at what we do and if it can be done better These activities may be system related or accounting/operational in nature.
  • Tax compliance – Research payroll-related issues with a view to being fully tax compliant drawing from credible sources including legislative bodies, industry associations, and/or conducting jurisdictional reviews.
  • Accounting Review – Support a team of Corporate Payroll Analysts' work through review and approval of journal entries, transactional processing documents such as public service award payments, severance payments, payroll-related reconciliation of general ledger accounts, monthly payroll billings to outside agencies, review/analysis/approval of various reports, etc.
Qualifications and Experience

The ideal candidate comes with a Bachelor's degree in a related discipline (i.e., Commerce, Business, MPA, etc.) plus a minimum of 5 years experience in 2 or more of the following areas:

  • Payroll
  • Systems maintenance/support/administration in an ERP environment
  • Project management
  • Process improvement/Lean/Six Sigma
  • Policy/legislative research

An equivalent combination of training and experience may be considered.

What We Offer
  • Career development where you have access to career guidance, tools, resources, and ongoing training for every stage of your career
  • Engaging workplace: our employees feel valued, respected, connected, and tuned in, we have forward-thinking policies and strategies
  • Countless career paths

Pay Grade: PR 13

Salary Range: $2,556.10- $3,107.16 Bi-Weekly

Employment Equity Statement: Our goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative, at all job levels, of the citizens we serve. The Government of Nova Scotia has an Employment Equity Policy, and we welcome applications from Indigenous People, African Nova Scotians and Other Racially Visible Persons, Persons with Disabilities and Women in occupations or positions where they are under-represented.

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