Intermediate Assistant, Human Resources

**Job Type**:
Employee

**Duration in Months** **(for fixed-term jobs):
14

**Job Family**:
Human Resources Operations

**# of Open Positions**:
1

**Faculty/Service - Department**:
Human Resources, Faculty of Social Sciences

**Campus**:
Main Campus

**Union Affiliation**:
SSUO

**Date Posted**:
septembre 30, 2024

**Closing Date**:
octobre 11, 2024
**Note**: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the Posting End Date above

**Hours per week**:
35

**Salary Grade**:
SSUO Grade 07

**Salary Range**:
$56 626,00 - $71 528,00

About the Faculty of Social Sciences
The FSS comprises nine departments, schools and institutes, which offer undergraduate, masters and doctoral programs in both English and French. With its 10,000 students, 260 full-time professors, and wide array of programs and research centres, the Faculty of Social Sciences plays a key role at the heart of the University of Ottawa. Its graduate students are supervised by excellent researchers and undertake cutting-edge research in the Faculty's masters and Ph.D. programs. Along with its complement of about 100 administrative employees, the faculty is proud to provide a collaborative working environment that inspires new ideas, encourages creative ingenuity, and promotes excellence.

**Position Purpose**

Perform a variety of activities to support the human resources and payroll operations of the sector while ensuring compliance with related policies and procedures. Assist with other administrative functions (such as reception) as required.

**In this role, your responsibilities will include**:

- Payroll: Coordinate the payroll process for various employee groups within the Faculty, monitor payroll workflow, track daily activities, monitor compliance with related policies and implement changes as requested in order to ensure integrity and transparency of the payroll process. Prepare and submit requests for remuneration and other documentation necessary to initiate required action in employee records in order to minimize the possibility of an interruption in the employee’s pay. Identify and resolve any discrepancies related to payroll information to minimize the possibility of a negative impact on the affected employee.
- Human resources: Prepare and submit various actions within Workday to ensure the continuity in the employee’s pay. Liaise with central Human Resources to stay abreast of any changes in general policies and procedures related to human resources and payroll administration.
- Information and client service: Provide information to internal clients on various human resources and payroll processes, deadlines and policies to ensure that these are well understood and properly implemented.
- Records management: Maintain an effective filing and records management system to preserve discretion of highly confidential information for personnel of the sector and to ensure that complete and accurate documentation is available for future reference or audit purposes.

**What you will bring**:

- Knowledge of administration and human resources principles normally acquired through postsecondary studies in a related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
- Minimum 2 years of demonstrated experience in a similar role
- Experience in a human resources environment
- Experience with and understanding of payroll principles
- Experience in producing reports
- Ability to produce high quality work under pressure while meeting strict deadlines
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong organizational skills
- Bilingualism - French and English (spoken and written)

**Key Competencies at uOttawa**:
Here are the required competencies for all or our employees at uOttawa:
**Planning**:Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realize an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities.
**Initiative**:Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Is proactive and self-starting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond whenever it is possible.
**Client Service Orientation**:Help or serve others to meet their needs. This implies anticipating and identifying the needs of internal and external clients and finding solutions on how to meet them.
**Teamwork and Cooperation**:Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal(s). Accept and give constructive feedback. Able to adjust own behaviour to reach the goals of the team.

**Note: if this is a union position**:The hiring process will be governed by the current collective agreement related to the union affiliation noted above; you can click here to find out more.

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