Payroll Analyst

Overview:
Primo Brands is a leading branded beverage company in North America with a focus on healthy hydration. We are proud to offer an extensive and iconic portfolio of highly recognizable, sustainably sourced, and conveniently packaged branded beverages distributed across more than 150,000 retail outlets.

**Responsibilities**:
We are seeking a Payroll Analyst who will be responsible for the accurate and timely processing of payroll, performing various clerical task such as data management and keeping employee information that is relevant to payroll and benefit purposes up to date.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Process weekly and biweekly multi-provincial full cycle payrolls for hourly, salary, union, and non-union employees, following employment standard regulations and collective agreements
- Validate time entry, validate approvals, and follow up on any discrepancies.
- Create and maintain payroll profiles for all employees, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
- Processing changes to employee files, employee salary and benefit changes in systems
- Administer benefit enrollments and terminations.
- Reconcile all Payroll data and output reports, ensuring all policies, procedures, and internal controls are met
- Accurate and timely completion of weekly and monthly remittances such as benefits, pension, WSIB, union dues, garnishments, and other payroll related remittances
- Provide outstanding service to both internal and external customers and partners
- Stay current with payroll regulations, standards and work methods.

Qualifications:
**Qualifications**:

- Required working knowledge of ADP WFN payroll system
- Minimum 1 to 3 years work experience in a payroll department required.
- CPA designation or working towards completion.
- Demonstrated knowledge of payroll and payroll tax laws required. Knowledge of multi-province payroll, federal and provincial wage and labor laws, employee benefit plans, employment practices and payroll taxes.
- Advance Excel skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
- Written and verbal proficiency in French will be an asset.
- Detail oriented with a high degree of accuracy even while working in a fast paced, dynamic environment
- Ability to prioritize tasks under tight time constrains
- Ability to handle confidential information in an ethical and professional manner
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a solutions-oriented approach
- Excellent client service, strong organizational skills
- Comfortable in a Flexible work arrangement, both remote and onsite
- A positive, winning attitude combined with the highest level of integrity, honesty, responsibility and discretion is a must

Primo Brands’ established portfolio includes billion-dollar brands Poland Spring® and Pure Life®, premium brands like Saratoga® and Mountain Valley®, regional leaders such as Arrowhead®, Deer Park®, Ice Mountain® Ozarka®, and Zephyrhills®, purified brands, Primo Water® and Sparkletts®, and flavored and enhanced brands like Splash® and AC+ION®. Our extensive direct-to-consumer offerings and industry-leading line-up of innovative water dispensers create consumer connectivity through recurring water purchases across Water Direct, Water Exchange, and Water Refill. At Primo Brands, our more than 11,000 associates are at the heart of what we do and deliver on our mission to provide healthy hydration to consumers wherever, however and whenever they want it. We believe in fostering a respectful culture, which values our associates who are deeply invested in quality hydration, our communities, and the sustainability of our packaging and water sources for generations to come.