Analyst Payroll Operations

**Requisition ID**:179563

**Career Group**:Corporate Office Careers

**Job Category**:HR Payroll Services East

**Travel Requirements**:0 - 10%

**Job Type**:Contract

**Country**:Canada (CA)

**Province**:Nova Scotia; Québec

**City**:Stellarton, Montreal

**Location**:King St. Office, Bureau de Montréal-Nord, Foord St. Office

**Postal Code**:
Our family of 134,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better - great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.

A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1500 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.

**A**ll **career opportunities will be open a minimum of 5 business days from the date of posting.

**Ready to Make an impact?**:
Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities and we are always looking for bright new talent to join our team We currently have a 24 month term opportunity for an Analyst, Payroll Operations & Compliance to join our HR Shared Services and Payroll team based out of our office in Stellarton, NS or Montreal, QC

**Here’s where you’ll be focusing**:

- Process multiple biweekly payrolls and monthly retiree payroll
- Process off-cycle payroll deposits or cheque requests
- Reconcile, remit, and report on all payroll liabilities including but not limited to CRA, RQ, WCB (all provinces), EHT, MB Health Tax, NL Health Tax, Group Benefits, Pension, Garnishments, Union Dues, Union Benefits and Party Funds)
- Reconcile and report on vacation liability account
- Prepare key performance indicator reports
- Prepare period end working papers for all payroll liability accounts
- Prepare journal entries
- Reconcile banking accounts
- Issue Cost Center Owner Reports and respond to inquiries
- Analyze complex Payroll issues
- Respond to Regional Human Resource and Finance inquiries
- Improve business efficiency and identify areas for process improvement
- Prepare and execute year end activities (including producing and reconciling T4s, T4As, RL-1s and annual returns for WCB including all provinces, EHT, NL Health Tax and MB Health Tax)
- Process annual bonus payments
- Process Record of Employment (ROE’s) in accordance with Service Canada requirements

**What you have to offer**:

- 5+ years Payroll Experience
- Undergraduate in Accounting/Business or relevant work experience
- Knowledge of Ceridian Dayforce required and SAP HR/Payroll considered an asset
- Previous experience with payroll implementation projects considered an asset
- Strong analytical, problem solving and decision making ability
- Bilingual - English and French strongly preferred
- PCP or PLP certification preferred
- Ability to communicate effectively, both written and oral
- Proficient in Microsoft Office

Sobeys offers our employees many valuable benefits such as:

- Growing organization
- Competitive salary
- Pension Plan
- Flexible health and dental benefits plan (eligible employees)
- Ongoing Training & Development
- Opportunity for internal mobility to other departments and/or promotions (for employees who are strong performers)

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