Payroll & Benefits Specialist

**Cérélia Bakery**

Cérélia North America is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario (Canada), which was incorporated in 1983. Cérélia’s key businesses are food manufacturing of cookies, rolled dough and pancakes/waffles for retail, food services and brands. Cerelia North America employs approximately 900 associates.

The activities of Cerelia North America are split over 3 different locations:

- Toronto, Ontario (CA): 2 factories and 1 distribution Center (cookies)
- Columbus, Ohio (USA): 1 factory (cookies & rolled dough)
- Liberty, South Carolina (USA): 1 factory (pancakes & waffles)

Cérélia Group currently operates 12 production plants globally with approximately 2,500 associates throughout Europe, North America, and Asia. Products are sold in 50 countries with current sales of ~$550 million Euros (CA$800 million). Cerelia’s business model is the combination of quality, innovation, and cost efficiency. Cerelia has invested more than CA$100M in new factories and production lines in North America.

At the core of Cérélia’s strategy, our corporate responsibility focus points include the reduction of our environmental footprint, a responsible sourcing policy, the improvement of the nutritional profile of our products, and finally the development & engagement of our associates. Visit our annual report here

Cerelia expects and supports its associates to demonstrate the following core values:

- Entrepreneurial Spirt: “Every day is an opportunity”
- Together with Cerelia: “Building our success together”
- Commitment: “Positive energy in everything we do”

**Company Offering**

Our ambition is to become the world leading partner for dough solutions, empowering consumers to create happy home baking moments.

Cérélia offers a wide range of baked cookies, cookie dough, pizza dough, pie crust, puff pastry, pancakes, frozen waffles and breakfast sandwiches; commercialized under our clients’ brands, both retailers, food services and industrial companies, as well as under its own brands: English Bay Bakery, JusRol, and Pop Bakery.

**Company Strategy**

Cérélia North America’s strategy is articulated around 4 axes, aiming to improving its performance and seizing future growth opportunities, while embracing the company’s heritage and distinctive strengths:

- Create a solid base: doing well what we do today, increase customer satisfaction and profitability
- Drive innovation around our 3 product platforms: cookies, rolled dough and pancakes / waffles
- Enhance our capabilities & talent: implementing new systems, developing a broader industrial footprint, and investing in our talent
- Accelerate growth, through organic growth, strategic partnerships, and acquisitions

In 2020, we reset and refocused the business around the Toronto facilities for cookies, while adding rolled dough products with an excellent reputation and distribution across the US retailers, to our portfolio.

In March 2021, US Waffle, leader in pancakes & waffles joined the Cerelia family; in June 2021, we opened a new, state-of-the art, 150,000 sqft factory in Columbus, Ohio.

Cérélia continues to strengthen the relationship with its strategic customers across multiple distribution channels: food service, in store bakeries, retailers, clubs, convenience stores, and industrial partners.

**Primary Responsibilities**

Overall responsibility includes:

- Process bi-weekly payroll for salaried and hourly employees using ADP Workforce Now ensuing accuracy.
- Process payroll year end run and issue T4s and T2200s.
- Reconcile and submit annual reconciliations for WCB and EHT.
- Set up new hires, update employee profile changes and process terminations.
- Administer employee group benefits including employee benefits enrolment, salary and benefits changes update and terminations.
- Reconcile and process monthly benefits billing and allocate benefits cost department wise.
- Assist employees with online group RRSP enrolment and maintain records.
- Prepare ROEs.
- Responsible for processing garnishments.
- Process special payroll related calculations such as retroactive payments and time off accruals.
- Responsible for tracking accurate vacation time off.
- Prepare GL summary report for each payroll and send it to Finance department.
- Responsible for providing information related to payroll inquiries from Service Canada and CRA.
- Serves as main payroll contact to submit new service requests to ADP.
- Prepare headcount and overtime dashboards.
- Provide high-end customer service to managers and employees regarding their pay and benefits queries.
- Maintain employee confidence and protect payroll operations by keeping information confidential.
- Prepare ad-hoc reports for all internal stakeholders.
- Review existing payroll processes and systems, recommending updates and improvements as required.
- Maintain agency employee database.
- Provide training to agency co-coordinators and supervisors.
- Additional job responsibiliti