Payroll Clerk

**Department**: Finance Department
**Type of Position** Full Time, Contract (16 months)
**Reporting to**:Manager, Finance
**Location**: 5160 Yonge Street, North York

**About Tarion**

Since 1976, Tarion has provided new home warranty protection to more than 2 million Ontario homes. We serve new home buyers and new homeowners by ensuring that one of their life’s biggest investments is protected. Almost every new home in the province is covered by a new home warranty. This warranty protection is provided by Ontario’s builders and lasts up to seven years. It is backstopped by Tarion. More than 375,000 homes are currently enrolled in the warranty program. Every year about 55,000 new homes are enrolled.

With more than 265 employees, Tarion works hard every day to serve the public interest by, first and foremost, protecting consumers and their new home purchases. We investigate homeowner warranty claims; resolve warranty disputes between homeowners and builders; and provide deposit and delayed closing protection for new home buyers. We also manage the Guarantee Fund, an important financial reserve designed to help shield Ontario consumers from possible catastrophic building events. All of this enhances fairness and confidence in Ontario’s new home building industry.

**Areas of Responsibility**:
The primary focus of this role is the administration of Tarion’s payroll for approximately 300 employees as well as the board of directors fees, ensuring that both the employees and director fees are paid accurately and on a timely basis.

The primary duties include:

- Ensuring the timely process of Tarion’s semi monthly payroll, as well as the statutory filing (T4, WSIB, EHT etc).
- Accountable to ensure that each employee is paid accurately within the parameters establish by Tarion and the requirement of various CRA/ESA guidelines.
- Ensure the pension contribution and benefits are deducted from payroll properly including the timely remittance to the service providers/benefits carriers. (Pension/RRSP/TFSA contributions; Benefit & AD&D premiums); reconciliation of payroll to general ledger.
- Support the Human Resources department with the administration of Tarion’s incentive bonus program

The secondary role includes:

- Be the back up role for the daily processing and reconciliation of all cheques and monies received for deposit to the bank, including the reconciliation and preparing of journal entries to account for the cash receipts, as required.

**Qualifications**:

- 3 to 5 years experience with payroll possessing of administrative skills to handle the payroll of 300+ employees
- Knowledge and work experience of payroll legislation and regulations
- Familiar with Ceridian Dayforce HCM system is desirable
- Experience possessing supporting activities related to payroll such as pension/benefits premium reconciliations.
- Exceptionally detail-oriented with the ability to follow direction
- Must be able to handle confidential information in an ethical and professional manner.
- Experience working in a payroll/Finance environment or with full cycle payroll processing.
- Mathematical skills to do payroll calculations and perform account and bank reconciliation
- Basic understanding of accounting concepts

**Why Choose Tarion?**

We believe that Tarion’s employees are its most valuable asset. We strive to provide a welcoming work environment

We offer employees a competitive compensation program, opportunities for learning and development, an employee discount program, access to wellness programs, and a variety of Employee Assistance Program tools and online resources to support well-being.

At Tarion, we believe that a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion allows employees to perform at their very best and underpins a culture in which everyone feels they have an equal opportunity to belong and build a career. Tarion is committed to developing and maintaining work environments and practices that ensure equality of opportunity in recruitment, selection and promotion, and to removing systemic barriers so that employees have every opportunity to feel included in the workplace.

**Application Submissions & Deadline**:
Please submit a covering letter and resume with vacancy code **PAC112822**.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 16 months

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible schedule

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- North York, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

**Education**:

- Bachelor's Degree (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Payroll: 3 years (required)
- Ceridian Dayforce HCM: 1 year (preferred)
- pension/benefit premium reconciliation: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in North York, ON