We are looking for a Payroll Supervisor/Manager to join our client’s education organization in Toronto, Ontario on a Contract basis. This position will oversee end-to-end payroll activities for a diverse workforce, ensuring employees are paid accurately and on schedule across both salaried and hourly groups. The role also supports time and attendance administration, pay coding accuracy, and payroll-related coordination with HR and benefits processes.

Responsibilities:

- Manage complete payroll processing for salaried and hourly employees, ensuring timely and accurate payment each cycle.
- Review and validate time and attendance records, approved timesheets, and pay inputs before payroll submission.
- Maintain employee payroll profiles, including earnings codes, job-related pay changes, and other required payroll data updates.
- Administer transfer and labour distribution codes for employees who work in multiple positions or assignments with different pay rates.
- Reconcile payroll results, investigate discrepancies, and resolve issues related to employee pay, deductions, and hours worked.
- Support benefits and HR administration activities that affect payroll, including employee status changes and related record updates.
- Use ADP Workforce Now and related payroll systems to process transactions, produce reports, and maintain payroll documentation.
- Partner with internal stakeholders to address payroll inquiries and ensure compliance with organizational policies and payroll requirements.
- Demonstrated experience managing full-cycle payroll in a supervisory or managerial capacity.
- Hands-on knowledge of ADP Workforce Now and ADP payroll environments.




- Strong understanding of payroll administration for both hourly and salaried employee groups.
- Experience working with timekeeping records, approved timesheets, and payroll input validation.
- Familiarity with employee coding, transfer codes, and handling multiple pay rates for the same employee.
- Working knowledge of HR administration and benefits processes as they relate to payroll.
- High attention to detail with the ability to identify and resolve payroll discrepancies accurately.

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📌 Payroll Supervisor/Manager (Toronto)
🏢 Robert Half
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