Payroll Specialist

1 week ago


Mississauga, Canada Knowledge First Financial Full time

**Job Profile**:
Payroll Specialist Full-Time Role

**Payroll Specialist**

**Reporting into Manager, People & Culture**

At Embark Student Corp. (Embark), we’re on a journey to create an entirely new student experience. One that is built on instilling confidence in students around the paths they are choosing and their ability and agency to achieve their goals for the future. As enablers and orchestrators of students’ success, we will create access, affordability and agency for students and their champions across our services and solutions. This will provide them with guidance and support in all aspects of planning and saving for post secondary education - giving them a future-ready advantage and help them thrive well past their educational journey.

Embark is cultivating an environment that enables growth, trust and pioneering. To help drive our transformation and growth, Embark is guided by the following strategic pillars:

- Elevate our Expertise in Education Savings & Planning
- Aspire to be Trusted and Easy to do Business with
- Put our Customers in the Center of Our Experience
- Partner to Drive Value, Scale and Reach

**What makes us qualified to do this?**

In business since 1965 and owned and operated by a not-for-profit organization, everything we do is in service to our students. We are a diverse and passionate community of experts that firmly believes in the benefits of education, priding ourselves on helping to shape their future and empowering them to reach their full potential.

As we move forward, we will leverage and build upon our unmatched expertise in the RESP space to propel both our students and our company forward, ensuring a better tomorrow. Our vision is set, our future is bright, and we’re just getting started.

**CHALLENGES TO BE MET**
- 3+ years’ payroll experience
- 1+ year experience with Ceridian, preferably Dayforce
- Processing the full cycle of bi-weekly payrolls for salary and hourly employees in an accurate and timely manner
- Processing the full cycle of semi-monthly payroll for the Front Line Sales Force agents
- Ensure systems are set-up and updated to reflect our current employee base, including wages, benefits, sick and vacation time in line with contracts
- Critically review and analyze current payroll, benefits and tax procedures in order to recommend and implement changes leading to best-practice operations
- Communicate actively with key stakeholders (HR and Finance) to review cross-departmental impacts and reconcile data sharing
- Administers various payments - ad hoc or scheduled - such as additional bonus pay, STD pay, retro pay, vacation pays, etc.
- Responds to inquiries from internal departments and site management regarding payroll matters in a prompt, courteous and efficient manner
- Benefit Administration using Canada Life platform (update Canada Life records, reconcile invoices, adding new employees, etc.)
- Prepare and facilitate ‘adhoc’ reports and analysis as it pertains to payroll and benefits
- Manage regular preparation of relevant management reports, including weekly, monthly, quarterly and year-end reports (gross payroll, hours worked, vacation accrual, tax deductions, benefit deductions, etc.)

o Use data to trend and determine action items

o Review and analyze employee survey data

o Determine actions
- Process payments to third parties - RRSP/Pension, as well as, ensuring that deductions are in accordance with provincial and federal legislation and corporate policies
- Ensure that monthly and year-end regulatory filings are completed on a timely basis
- Ensure that internal controls are complied with for all payroll processes
- Responsible for all benefits, pension and compensation administration
- Ongoing annual analysis of benefits program to continue employee satisfaction and cost effectiveness
- Present improvements and concerns to manager for buy in and approval
- Special projects as assigned and other duties as appropriate and required

***

**WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR**
- We value each employee for their unique perspectives and experiences. If you are someone who has qualifications similar to what we are looking for and is aligned with the culture and values at Embark, please consider applying_
- CPP/PCP Certification or in progress
- 3+ years of full cycle payroll experience
- Ceridian Dayforce experience is required
- Proven communication skills
- Detail oriented
- Honest, ethical and trustworthy attitude
- Proven ability to set and achieve objectives
- Desire to work in a team environment, in multiple different capacities
- Ability to write, understand and implement policies and procedures to all levels of the organization
- Someone who listens to diverse perspectives with an empathetic attitude
- A lifelong learner that is performance driven
- Someone who recognizes our customers as our most important stakeholders
- The ability to work in a team setting and serve value
- Someone who continuously takes initiative and embr


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