Payroll Manager

Payroll Manager

**Serving the needs of all families with young children,**Carter’s Inc. is the largest North American apparel retailer exclusively for babies and young children, encompassing Carter’s, OshKosh B’gosh, Skip*Hop and Little Planet brands. Meaningful work, constant learning, genuine people, and a community guided by core values that promote inclusion and innovation is in everything we do. There are many reasons to build your career at Carter's.

**How you’ll make an impact**:
This role reports into the Senior Payroll Manager and is based in our Mississauga, ON office in our hybrid work environment.

**Canada Payroll Processing - 50%**:

- Manage global payroll processes timely and accurately in accordance to established deadlines.
- Timely, accurate and complete payrolls with constant focus on process improvement
- Maintain full calendar of all necessary deadlines.
- Respond to employee and manager inquiries regarding payroll issues or concerns within established SLA’s.
- Investigate payroll incidents, perform root cause analysis and implement process improvements.
- Manage expatriate payrolls.
- Enter international payrolls by deadlines in HSBC.
- Set internal control procedure in accordance with management and internal audit expectations. Ensure continuous compliance.
- Evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of processes and practices to ensure quality and consistency and delivery against defined targets.
- Establish and maintain all standards of customer service within the payroll team providing best in class customer service.
- Maintain current payroll/HCM functions to comply with legislative requirements.
- Reconcile payroll at year-end, including PIER, T4s, and T2200.- Handle fiscal year-end and audit tasks related to payroll.
- Utilize Workday reporting for quarterly and year end tax adjustments
- Maintain standards for garnishment processing.
- Maintain documentation of all payroll SOPs ensuring consistent & repeatable processes
- Process ROE’s timely and investigate and discrepancies.
- Full knowledge and understanding of Canada Vacation accruals and legislations.

**Payroll Tax - 30%**:

- Submit monthly, quarterly and annually tax filings for Canada.
- Ensure processing and remittance of Workers Comp and other local tax for Canada.
- Administer all payroll and payroll tax processes.
- Manage tax requirements for each province.
- Provide continuous review of all taxes under OneSource Virtual (OSV) responsibility.
- Respond to payroll tax related cases within established SLA’s.
- Maintain payment schedules for all taxes not directly processed by OneSource Virtual (OSV)
- Complete registrations for all necessary locations

**Legal Compliance and Internal Controls - 20%**:

- Facilitate complete, accurate and timely filing of annual tax returns including Canadian T4s/RL-1, HK tax statements and other international tax statements.
- Maintain standards for all garnishment processing
- Act as the key liaison for internal and external payroll related audits
- Implement controls where needed to ensure accuracy of processes and financial statement.
- Understands and interprets multiple labour agreements, statutory legislation, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance regarding pay, deductions, benefits, and taxes and documentation and escalates/resolves discrepancies as needed.

**We’d Love to hear from you if**:
**Must have**:

- Experience processing to end payroll processing in large corporation
- Knowledge of payroll processes, statutory laws, and labour agreements with the ability to track, maintain and submit all necessary documentation to meet deadlines and requirements.
- Experience with and knowledge of preparing, reconciling, and submitting monthly, quarterly, and annual internal and external remittances.
- Strong understanding of CAN and US Tax and Garnishments
- Advanced Excel skills, strong database knowledge and proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Accounting required or equivalent years of experience
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Knowledge of accounting related to payroll processing. Understanding the process from beginning to end.

**Preferred skills and experience**:

- Self-motivated, organized, and effectively achieves team goals
- Strong ability to multi-task
- Excellent team player who works well in a collaborative environment
- Ability to work effectively with external partners as well as internal employees
- Evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of processes and practices to ensure quality and consistency and delivery against defined targets.
- Ability to demonstrate independent, objective, open-minded thinking with strong attention to detail and sound judgement.
- Certified Payroll Compliance Professional (PCP)/ Payroll Leadership Professional (PLP) certification preferred
- Experience with Workday payroll system highly preferred
- Solid background in process improvement, project manage