Payroll Specialist

Responsibilities

• Accurately and timely processes full-cycle payroll for both salary and hourly pay groups (union/non-union), ensuring strict compliance with legislation, collective agreements, and BCAA policies.
• Act as a key point of contact for employees on payroll inquiries including benefits, pension, entitlements, and specific payments/deductions.
• Support regular reconciliations, ensuring their completion, and conduct reviews and audits of various reports, including those related to unsubmitted/unapproved time, overtime/double-time, and audit/error reports.
• Prepare monthly journal entries, balances, and reconciliations to the general ledger, while correcting any variances & process adjustments through manual journal entries.
• Play a crucial role in maintaining financial accuracy by providing essential support for mid-year and year-end balancing. This includes handling adjustments, reconciliations, taxable benefit processing, T4 summary preparation, remittances, PIER, and WCB reports.
• Promoting a supportive culture through BCAA's People First Approach, and by continuously identifying opportunities to streamline processes, reduce inefficiencies, and inform stakeholders of potential enhancements.
• What you bring:
• Diploma in Payroll/Accounting coupled with a PCP designation.
• Minimum 3 years' of experience in a complex, large-scale, full-cycle payroll environment, with a solid understanding of BC payroll regulations.
• Exceptional problem solving and critical thinking abilities when tackling complex payroll situations.
• You can quickly adapt to changing priorities and develop solutions in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Proficient in MS Office with advanced Excel and data analysis skills.
• Bonus Skills:
• WorkDay (WD) experience, and exposure to Epicor, Concur, Verint, and/or ServiceNow.

Requirements

• You're an effective communicator with the ability to build strong relationships at all levels across the organization.
• You bring positive energy and thrive in a fast-paced environment where every day is different.
• You demonstrate strong analytical and organizational skills and can juggle multiple and competing priorities.
• You promote awareness of payroll best practices and processes and can translate complex spreadsheets and metrics.
• You're eager to learn and grow! Your personal development and career are important to you.
• You prefer to work in a team environment.

Benefits

Additional Information

Why BCAA? Feel proud of what you do and help shape the future of BC at a BC Top Employer. We're driven by purpose - delivering peace of mind to one in three BC households with insurance, roadside assistance, auto repair, Evo Car Share and Evolve E-Bike Share. With a long history of keeping roads safe and giving back in ways that build stronger communities, we offer a wide variety of meaningful, rewarding careers that move BC forward. We are currently hiring a Payroll Specialist based in our Head Office location in Burnaby. As a Payroll Specialist , you'll play a critical role in processing payroll for union & non-union team members, while supporting regular payroll cycles. You'll partner with key stakeholders (internal & external) and be instrumental in continuing to build on BCAA's award-winning culture.

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