Payroll Manager

Who We Are: CarePartners has grown to be one of the largest, most reputable, and well-established home care service providers in Ontario. Established in 1983, our CEO Linda Knight was a nurse who saw the need for building home care services around the patient’s needs. Since then, we’ve been on a mission to GROW and INNOVATE community health care, as we firmly believe that the future of healthcare is Home Care. Overview: We are currently looking for someone to join our team in the permanent role of **Payroll Manager. **This position is based out of our corporate office located in **Kitchener Ontario**, with remote working options also available. Reporting to the Director of Finance, the **Payroll Manager**, manages the team and full cycle payroll processes, ensuring accurate, confidential and timely payments and related reporting. The Manager develops and initiates plans of action to support CarePartners' strategic objectives, internal controls and efficient processes across the organization. What We Offer: In addition to a competitive salary and access to group benefit and RRSP programs, your future colleagues want to tell you that you’ll enjoy - “working within a knowledgeable and collaborative team" - “working within a learning environment and having an opportunity to gain skills” - “work life balance and flexibility” - “working for a company that provides essential health care and positively impacts the lives of so many Ontarian’s” What The Role Involves: - Managing and providing leadership to the operational aspects of payroll including the development and management of payroll systems, processes, ensuring a high degree of accuracy in transactions and processing. - Communicating regularly with internal and external customers resolving issues to ensure excellent customer service. - Monitoring key indicators in the payroll processes, identifying areas for improvement and in consultation with internal customers, implements corrective action. - Overseeing all government reporting and being responsible for accurate reporting of payroll liabilities such as employee federal and provincial income taxes, employment insurance, workplace safety insurance, unions, benefit and pension payments. - Being responsible for leading, supporting and training payroll staff including prioritizing workload, providing feedback and addressing and resolving all payroll related issues in a timely, effective manner. - Maintaining professional and technical knowledge of payroll and payroll related legislation. - Implementing contract changes in payroll system. - Acting as the key contact for payroll during year-end audit. - Ensuring compliance with internal controls, government rules and regulations. Maintains the data integrity of the payroll business systems and the appropriate audit requirements. - Supervising Payroll Administrators; inclusive of hiring, training mentoring and performance management. - Performing other duties as assigned What You Bring: - 5+ years related work experience in large (4,000+ employees) payroll environment (unionized preferred). - Canadian Payroll Manager Certification. - Successful completion of a business administrative or accounting diploma or related discipline from a recognized community college/university. - Solid comprehension and understanding of payroll legislated requirements and working within the requirements of collective agreements for payroll purposes - Strong experience with HRIS and payroll system implementations (PDS Vista an asset). - Experience in managing payroll staff, with the ability to supervise, delegate, motivate and lead departmental work teams. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills. - Proficient in Excel at an advanced level and demonstrated ability to produce high quality reports. - Proficiency in Word at an intermediate level preferred. - Excellent interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to build, establish and maintain collaborative, service-oriented relationships with the payroll team, internal and external stakeholders. - A clear background check and proof of Covid 19 vaccination* CarePartners In Your Community: In addition to providing home-based personal support, rehabilitation and therapy, nursing and palliative care across Ontario, CarePartners also serves the community through clinics, transitional care units, and provides relief in nursing homes and shared care settings. Through our outreach program, we’ve been organizing medical care and clinics in countries with poor access to health care since 2009. Accessibility: - _CarePartners promotes and facilitates, as appropriate, the immunization of employees in order to provide a safe working environment for its employees, to deliver safe care to patients and to fulfill its commitment to evidence - based health promotion. In accordance with Public Health guidelines CarePartners has implemented safety protocols to prevent the spread of infectious diseases such