Location: Toronto or Windsor, ON Hybrid (Hybrid, 2 days per week in office)

Language: English, professional written and verbal communication required

Duration: Permanent

Background Check Requirement: Reference checks required

About the Opportunity

Are you a payroll professional who enjoys working with data, solving problems, and ensuring employees are paid accurately and on time? We're partnering with a purpose-driven Canadian organization in the health and benefits sector that is investing in modernizing its people operations through Workday Payroll. This is an opportunity to join a collaborative team where your expertise will directly support payroll excellence while contributing to meaningful organizational impact.

Reporting to the People Operations team, you'll play a key role in delivering end-to-end payroll operations, supporting payroll analysis, employee inquiries, reconciliations, and continuous process improvements. Working alongside experienced payroll professionals, you'll build your expertise in Workday while helping create a reliable and effective payroll experience for employees across Canada.

What's In It for You

- Join a purpose-driven organization that values collaboration, inclusion, and continuous learning.
- Work alongside experienced payroll professionals who are committed to mentorship and knowledge sharing.
- Gain valuable exposure to Workday Payroll in a modern, evolving workplace.
- Competitive salary, comprehensive advantages, RRSP matching up to 4%, four weeks of PTO.
- Enjoy a workplace that values innovation, professional growth, and work-life balance.

Your Responsibilities

- You'll manage recurring payroll cycles,



including pre-payroll validation, payroll inputs, reconciliations, post-payroll reviews, and issue resolution.
- You'll review payroll data, investigate discrepancies, perform variance analysis, and ensure payroll accuracy across multiple jurisdictions.
- You'll respond to employee payroll inquiries, investigate routine issues, and coordinate resolutions with cross-functional teams.
- You'll support Workday Payroll administration, testing activities, reporting, and ongoing process improvements.
- You'll maintain payroll documentation, process controls, reconciliation files, and standard operating procedures.
- You'll prepare payroll reports, exception reporting, and operational analysis to support compliance and decision-making.

Skills and Qualifications

- 2-4 years of Canadian payroll experience with at least one full year of end-to-end payroll processing in Workday Payroll.
- Demonstrated experience processing multi-jurisdictional Canadian payroll, including Quebec payroll requirements.
- Payroll Compliance Professional (PCP) designation completed or actively in progress.
- Strong understanding of Canadian payroll legislation, payroll reconciliations, year-end payroll activities, and payroll reporting.
- Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, formulas, filtering,



and variance analysis.
- Experience supporting payroll implementations, user acceptance testing, or Workday stabilization activities is considered an asset.
- Exposure to unionized payroll environments is an asset.
- Exceptional attention to detail, analytical thinking, customer service skills, and the ability to manage recurring payroll deadlines with accuracy.

Note from the Hiring Manager

"We're looking for someone who enjoys payroll operations, takes pride in accuracy, and wants to continue growing their Workday expertise. If you're naturally curious, collaborative, and enjoy finding better ways of working, you'll have the opportunity to make a real impact while building your career with our team."

Why Partner with Altis

If you’ve never worked with a staffing agency before, we make it easy. We work with top employers across Canada who have great jobs to fill, each vetted and verified by our team. When you apply for a job with Altis, we get to know you as a candidate and learn what your strengths are. Then, if you’re a solid match, we handle all the logistics, advocating for you as a candidate for the role, providing access to coaching and connecting you directly with the hiring manager. And rest assured, all our services are free of cost for candidates.

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Pay: $80,000.00-$90,000.00 per year

Benefits:

- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Paid time off
- RRSP match

Application question(s):

- Do you have at least 1 year of experience processing full cycle payroll in Workday?

Work Location: Hybrid remote in North York, ON

📌 Payroll Operations Analyst (Canada)
🏢 Altis Recruitment
📍 Canada