Payroll Analyst

Bargaining Unit:
- Non Union- Competition #:
- NU24-016- Job Type:
- Full Time- Department:
- Payroll- Date Posted:
- October 29, 2024- Job Number:
- J1024-0369- Number of Positions:
- 1- Length of Position:
- Permanent- Closing Date:
- November 5, 2024

At Bluewater Health, we are committed to fostering a Culture of Kindness and promoting health through partnership. With locations in Sarnia and Petrolia, we are proud to serve approximately 131,000 residents of Sarnia-Lambton. Our dedicated team, consisting of nearly 2,500 staff members, professional staff, and volunteers, works tirelessly to provide specialized acute, complex continuing care, allied health, and ambulatory care services.

Our purpose statement, "Health through partnership, Caring with kindness," is at the heart of everything we do. We believe in treating each other, our patients and families, and our community with compassion and respect. Our corporate health human resources campaign, Building Blue, emphasizes our commitment to growth, innovation, and creating a supportive work environment where every team member can thrive.

The successful applicant will work in compliance with all relevant and applicable legislation and Hospital Policies and Procedures, will practice the Bluewater Health Standards of Performance Excellence and will fulfill their role within the Attendance Support Program parameters. The successful applicant will also possess effective communication and interpersonal skills, will have the ability to work independently and as part of a team, and will have strong attention to detail and accuracy.

Each member of Bluewater Health is called to embrace patient and family-centred care in its fullest form. This includes using techniques and strategies to communicate “I care and I respect you,” providing information in a way patients and families can understand, listening to patients and families to learn what an exemplary healthcare experience means to them, and seeking their perspective throughout their stay and during improvement initiatives.

**Qualifications**:

- Post-secondary education in Business and/or Accounting required
- Completion of Canadian Payroll Association courses preferred

**Skill, Ability and Experience**:

- Intermediate proficiency in the use of Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft software products required
- Ability to meet deadlines, complete tasks with mínimal supervision, set work priorities and work with varied interruptions required
- Ability to collaborate with others and work in a fast-paced team environment required
- Previous Payroll experience in a unionized environment preferred
- High attention to detail required
- Experience working with Meditech Payroll/Personnel modules and an HRIS preferred
- Experience with computerized staff scheduling preferred

**Principal Duties**:

- Work with the payroll team to import pay from the scheduling system, analyze, adjust, investigate anomalies and finalize before posting the bi-weekly payroll for the hospital
- Create and upload payment file to the bank
- Preparation and submission of Records of Employment for the organization
- Troubleshoot payroll issues brought forward by Managers and/or front-line staff
- Co-ordinate with Human Resources to ensure employee file information is correct
- Assist with Reconciliation of employee benefits and varied deductions
- Participates in department and Hospital Quality Improvement initiatives
- Process reports and billing for Unions
- Provide vacation coverage for full-time staff
- Other related duties as assigned

We thank you in advance for your interest in Bluewater Health, however, only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. In accordance with Bluewater Health policy, offers of employment to prospective employees are conditional upon the successful completion and disclosure of a Police Records/Vulnerable Sector Check.