About Clio Clio is the global leader in legal AI technology, empowering legal professionals and law firms of every size to work smarter, faster, and more securely.

Position Summary We are currently seeking a Payroll & Implementation Specialist to join our Payroll team within Total Rewards on the People Team. The role leads global payroll projects and transformation initiatives, ensuring pay and benefit changes are delivered safely, compliantly, and with strong operational adoption.

What your team does Clio's Payroll team delivers a seamless, reliable pay experience for every Clion worldwide. We value timely, accurate pay and meaning benefits, treating each colleague as a customer and meeting commitments with high‐quality results.

Who you are You're a detail‐oriented, audit‐mindful payroll professional who thrives in complex, fast‐paced environments. You bring solid project ownership, a compliance mindset, and experience supporting payroll implementations, vendor changes, system upgrades, and operational change. You collaborate across teams, manage multiple priorities, and work hands‐on in payroll operations.

What you'll work on Lead global payroll projects end‐to‐end—implementations, migrations, vendor transitions, benefit changes, system updates/upgrades, country launches, and M&A; integrations.
Support discovery, requirements gathering, current‐ and future‐state process mapping, data readiness, testing, cutover, go‐live, and hyper‐care for payroll and benefits changes.
Partner cross‐functionally with PSA (HRIS), Total Rewards, Benefits, Finance, Legal,



and regional People teams to ensure safe, compliant, and adoption‐focused delivery.
Provide payroll processing support and key validations to understand workflows, identify risks or control gaps, and improve implementation outcomes.
Strengthen payroll controls, documentation, audit readiness, and continuous improvement across systems, processes, and vendor‐supported workflows.

Required qualifications 5+ years of payroll experience, including global payroll operations and major process or system changes.
Strong knowledge of payroll operations and controls—reconciliations, approvals, variance analysis, audit‐ready documentation, and compliant process design.
Experience supporting vendor transitions, benefit vendor changes, or system upgrades that affect payroll inputs, deductions, funding, reporting, or employee experience.
Strong project management and cross‐functional partnership skills across Payroll, HRIS, Benefits, Finance, Legal, and People.
Familiarity with payroll platforms/tools such as CloudPay, Remote, Workday integrations, or similar systems.
High attention to detail, ownership, and ability to work independently in a fast‐paced environment.
Interest in elevating one's craft using AI.





Bonus points Hands‐on experience with CloudPay/Remote, including implementation, migration, or stabilization.
Workday HRIS/payroll integration experience with interfaces, pay‐element mapping, reporting, and exception handling.
Leading or supporting payroll‐related vendor transitions, benefit vendor changes, or large‐scale system upgrades.
Experience with UAT, parallel runs, go‐live support, and hyper‐care for payroll or benefits changes.
Experience across multiple countries, payroll models, or complex global payroll environments.
Payroll certifications or advanced payroll compliance, systems, or project management training.

Compensation and Benefits Salary range: $105,600 – $158,400 CAD (region‐specific bands apply). Benefits include competitive salary, top‐tier health/dental/vision insurance, hybrid work (local CLIONS required in office at least twice per week), flexible time off (20 days/year), $2,000 annual counseling benefit, RRSP matching and RESP contribution, and Clioversary recognition.

Diversity & Inclusion We are committed to equal employment and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. We provide accessibility accommodations during the recruitment process.

Contact & Next Steps We only communicate with candidates through official @clio.
Com email addresses. If you meet the above qualifications, apply via the link provided on our careers page.

Disclaimer We only communicate with candidates through official @clio.
Com email addresses.

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📌 Payroll & Implementation Specialist - C$105,600 - C$158,400 A Year (Vancouver)
🏢 Clio
📍 Vancouver