Payroll Specialist

**Business Line: Human Resources**

**Hours Per Week**:35 (Full-Time)

**Job Duration**: Full-Time, 1 Year Contract

**About the Role**

**What You’ll Do**
- Act as a point of contact for all payroll, time management, and leave inquires.
- Guide and assist employees in understanding of timesheets, PTO, and provide clarification on NFP Canada’s payroll policies as needed.
- Accurately input all payroll related data necessary to process and meet firm deadline including but not limited to new hires, terminations, salary changes, manager changes, address changes.
- Prepare reports by compiling summaries of earnings, taxes, deductions, leave, disability, and nontaxable wages for accounting, human resources, and other departments as needed.
- Balance the payroll accounts by resolving payroll discrepancies.
- Maintain employee confidence and protects payroll operations by keeping information confidential.
- Comply with Federal, Provincial, and local legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation; enforcing adherence to requirements; advising management on needed actions.
- Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks or participating in professional societies.

**What You Bring**
- **Currently have or working towards PCP (Payroll Compliance Practitioner)**:

- Post-secondary education with a focus on accounting or payroll preferred.
- Typically, 2+ years of proven experience in a payroll position in a fast-paced environment.
- Prior experience with HRIS system - preferably UKG/UltiPro
- High-level of proficiency in Microsoft Excel
- Solid analytical, mathematical, and research skills
- Good understanding of general payroll best practices
- Ability to work effectively with mínimal supervision.
- Great interpersonal skills, strong attention to detail and highly organized
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)

**Who We Are**

NFP, an Aon company, is a multiple Best Places to Work award winner in Business Insurance who has also earned the 5-Star Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) award from Insurance Business magazine and the WORK180 employer endorsement. We are an organization of consultative advisors and problem solvers. We help companies and individuals around the globe address their most significant risk, workforce, wealth management and retirement challenges through custom solutions and a people-first approach.

**Our employees are the foundation of our success.**
- NFP is a big company — a growing, inclusive team of individuals supporting each other’s passions and engaging with the community._
- Building a diverse, collaborative and innovative team requires leadership, deliberate action, and ongoing measurement. We actively support the well-being of our employees with benefits and programs driven by recognition, community, financial wellness tools, development and inclusion, fostering personal and professional growth that keeps us moving forward._
- Beyond our office walls, we’re dedicated to serving the community around us. Every day we make proactive choices to take care of the communities in which we live and work._ _We contribute to different organizations, including Women in Insurance Cancer Crusade (WICC), Food Banks Canada, Indspire Canada and many more. From charity drives and community service outings to other company-sponsored events, our employees donate their time and raise funds on behalf of great causes across the country._
- Our business is built on the personal level. Whether it’s in our offices, on a call, out in the field or anywhere you can find us in the world, we’re starting the conversations that create a more secure future for everyone. _