Payroll Administrator

Summary
This position is responsible for the full cycle bi-weekly processing of the CRD’s payroll which encompasses 2 bargaining units, 1 non-bargaining unit and a Board of Directors.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Receives, verifies and inputs payroll time sheets, overtime, and other payroll related documents ensuring they are in compliance with organizational policies, the applicable collective agreement, and provincial legislation.
• Reviews and investigates the accuracy of time entered.
• Processes employee actions (i.e. hires, resignations, transfers etc.) ensuring they are accurately recorded.
• Organizes work to meet payroll cut off dates and payroll deadlines.
• Maintains the integrity of the employee’s payroll records and payroll files.
• Updates employee master payroll files with the appropriate correspondence and documentation.
• Ensures payroll actions are in accordance with CRD policies and procedures, union agreements and appropriate legislation including: Canada Revenue Agency and WorkSafeBC.
• Receives and processes employee benefit enrolment, change and conclusion information.
• Assists with pensionable earnings/service reporting.
• Produces payroll cheques/deposits for authorization.
• Coordinates with Human Resources to assist overpayments, benefit payments etc. as needed.
• Coordinates with Human Resources to investigate trends, anomalies and provide data for decision making.
• Prepares bank transfers.
• Reconciles and processes posting information to the general ledger.
• Processes stop payments, off cycle cheques and call backs of direct deposits when necessary.
• Maintains and reconciles employee quota entitlements including calculating quota pay-outs and appropriate recoveries.
• Processes final pays for terminating/retiring employees and issues Records of Employment.
• Calculates and assists in the recovery of employee benefits payments and the recovery of overpayment issues.
• Responds to payroll related questions from employees.
• Receives and responds to payroll enquiries from internal/external stakeholders.
• Reconciles and remits the annual Municipal Pension Plan Year End Report.
• Reviews and reports on gross pay of system users who have access to payroll changes.
• Prepares year to date summary and reconciles to CRA source deduction remittances.
• Prepares labour allocation, metrics reports and other ad hoc reporting to provide decision making support. Performs monthly/annual reconciliation of the payroll general ledger accounts.
• Assists in reporting employee earnings and deductions accurately on T4’s and T4A’s.
• Assists with payroll related fiscal year end functions.
• Prepares journal entries.
• Monitors and reconciles WorkSafe BC claim and payment information.
• Assists with testing and implementation of payroll related changes to the ERP system.
• Assists with investigating payroll processing issues within the ERP system.
• Processes changes to the organizational/cost centre structure as required.
• Follows all policies, procedures and standards of the CRD.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Key Skills & Abilities

• Excellent communication (verbal and written), interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Thorough knowledge of Federal and Provincial legislation, regulations and union agreements related to wage and benefit administration.
• Thorough knowledge of the methods, practices, principles and procedures involved in the preparation, calculation and processing of payrolls in a multi-divisional environment.
• Substantial experience with and understanding of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems such as SAP.
• Thorough knowledge of accounting systems, policies and procedures.
• Strong MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook and SharePoint skills.
• Excellent accurate keyboarding and data entry skills.
• Excellent aptitude for accurate mathematical calculations.
• Advanced ability to prepare payrolls to meet deadline requirements and to compile statistical and other reports related to payroll system.
• Strong ability to work independently in a fast paced and constantly changing environment.
• Strong ability to take initiative, use independent judgement and show discretion.
• Advanced ability to deal with confidential and sensitive information with sound judgement, discretion and diplomacy.

Qualifications

• Post-secondary courses in a related discipline
• A minimum of 3 years' directly related experience

Certifications

• National Payroll Institute Membership
• Certified Payroll Compliance Practitioner

APPLICATIONS
To apply for this exciting opportunity, please go to www.crd.bc.ca and click on 'Careers' to submit your resume and covering letter online. Review of applications will begin on April 24, 2024, but the position will remain to be open until filled

We welcome all qualified applicants to apply and may consider a combination of experience, education and/or training where possible.

The Capital Regional District wishes to thank you for your interest and advises that only those candidates under active consideration will be contacted.

Organization: Capital Regional District

Region: South Vancouver Island

Posted: April 30, 2024, 2:06 pm

Expires: May 17, 2024, 4:30 pm

Employment Type: Full Time
Employment Length: Permanent
Education Requirement: College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 3 months to less than 1 year
Job Experience: 3 years to less than 5 years
Rate: $36.85 to $40.36 Hour