Winnipeg, Manitoba

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Job Description

The Manager, Payroll leads payroll operations and the payroll project/change portfolio for approximately 14,000 U.S. employees and 2,000 Canadian employees within a complex, high-volume, multi-jurisdictional environment. This role provides leadership to a Payroll team of approximately 16 employees, including 1–2 direct reports, and is accountable for payroll accuracy and timeliness, regulatory compliance, tax administration, time and attendance, controls, reconciliations, audits, systems, projects, and operational excellence. The Manager also serves as the payroll project owner and subject-matter expert for implementations, system changes, integrations, and process improvements, and leads the Payroll workstream for M&A; activities in partnership with cross-functional teams. strategic initiatives impacting payroll, with accountability for planning, execution, implementation, and successful transition to ongoing operations.

Key Job Responsibilities

Payroll Operations & Team Leadership

- Lead day-to-day payroll operations for approximately 14,000 U.S. employees and 2,000 Canadian employees, including weekly U.S. and biweekly Canadian payrolls.
- Ensure payrolls are accurate, timely, appropriately reviewed, reconciled, approved, and compliant with applicable requirements.
- Provide leadership, coaching, workload prioritization, and direction to the Payroll team while establishing clear ownership, accountability, service expectations, and escalation protocols.
- Review payroll results, exceptions, variances,



and high-risk transactions and serve as a senior escalation point for complex payroll and employee pay matters.
- Drive operational excellence through standardization, performance metrics, root-cause analysis, automation, effective controls, and continuous improvement.

Payroll Regulatory Compliance, Wage & Hour & Pay Practices

- Provide leadership and oversight of payroll regulatory compliance across the United States and Canada, including U.S. federal, state, and local and Canadian federal and provincial requirements, with specific expertise in California wage and hour compliance.
- Apply strong knowledge of FLSA overtime and regular rate of pay requirements, including appropriate treatment of commissions, bonuses, incentives, premiums, and other variable compensation. Experience with FLSA Section 7(i) is strongly preferred.
- Oversee time and attendance and complex pay practices, including commission, incentive, productivity, flat-rate/flag-hour, guarantee, premium, bonus, and other variable compensation arrangements, including automotive collision-repair technician and estimator pay practices.
- Monitor regulatory developments, assess payroll impacts, and partner with Legal, HR, Tax, Compensation, and Operations to implement required changes and mitigate compliance risk.




- Identify compliance gaps and trends and lead corrective action, remediation, and sustainable process improvements.

Payroll Tax, Controls & Audit

- Oversee U.S. federal, state, and local and Canadian federal and provincial payroll tax administration, remittances, reconciliations, and regulatory reporting.
- Ensure accurate quarterly and annual reconciliations and filings, including Forms 941, 940, W-2/W-3, applicable state/local withholding and unemployment filings, and Canadian T4/T4A, CPP/QPP, EI, income tax, and applicable provincial reporting.
- Maintain a solid payroll control environment, including applicable SOX controls, approvals, reconciliations, segregation of duties, documentation, and audit readiness.
- Lead and support internal and external payroll, tax, SOX, and wage and hour audits across U.S. and Canadian operations and ensure timely resolution and remediation of identified issues.

Systems, M&A; & Project Leadership

- Provide operational ownership of payroll processes within Workday and ADP and ensure the accuracy and completeness of payroll-related data and integrations, including CCC, QComm, and ASE → Workday → ADP.
- Serve as the payroll project owner and subject-matter expert for implementations, system conversions and upgrades, integrations, enhancements, process transformation, and other strategic initiatives impacting payroll.
- Lead the Payroll workstream for M&A; activities, partnering with the broader M&A;/project team to assess payroll requirements and coordinate system setup, data conversion, testing, reconciliation, and integration into ongoing payroll operations.
- Lead payroll projects from planning through stabilization

📌 Payroll Manager (Winnipeg)
🏢 Boyd Group Services
📍 Winnipeg