Job Function:

- Accountable for performing payroll processing services for employees and pensioners including inputting, updating, and maintaining various computer systems.
- Ensure payroll processing activities are in accordance with payroll processing procedures, collective agreements, HR policies, and internal controls to ensure accuracy, integrity, and confidentiality of data.
- Robust data validations and auditing procedures are paramount to all payroll processing activities to avoid negative impacts to HR/government processing reliant on accurate data.
- Responsible for maintaining and producing remittances/reports and distributing information as needed and to working collaboratively within the team.
- Support the day-to-day operations of the Payroll Operations team by handling administrative information and performing complex analysis on Payroll including pay analysis and OVP.
- Review and approves employee data processes and transactions as needed.
- Support the Payroll Leader and the Payroll Supervisors to ensure efficiencies are gained and
- provide support to staff in processing transactions, acting as a point of escalation.
- Escalate items to the Supervisor and/or Manager and additional parties (e.g. COEs, HRSC, external vendors) as required.

Responsibilities:

General

- Support Payroll Leader with day-to-day operations for the Payroll function
- Provide additional Payroll processing support during high volume
- periods

Data Analysis

- Manage the overpayment process, by conducting analysis and providing
- solutions
- Develop and prepare reports to assist the Payroll Leader with
- monitoring the performance of the team
- Develop and prepare reports to assist the business with making
- strategic decisions

Subject Matter Expert

- Act as a payroll subject matter expert for the organization and as a
- key point of contact for Payroll related escalations




- Support development/presentation of training programs related to Payroll processing
- Provide feedback and recommendations on potential impacts of Payroll changes

Payroll Reconciliation

- Coordinate Payroll reconciliation and audit efforts led by Finance;
- coordinate teams and data requests within Payroll

Special Projects

- Assist with special payroll related projects focused on streamlining
- processes/operations and implementing new Payroll solutions/services
- Support and participate in complex projects with multiple work streams
- and multiple stakeholders

Process Oversight

- Monitor and track KPIs using a dashboard or similar tool
- Prepare internal and external reporting to meet regulatory and management reporting requirements, while optimizing processes and identifying cost efficiencies
- Manage all Payroll-related SOPs and documentation, ensuring they are kept up to date with system releases

Continuous Improvement

- Advocate for and participate in continuous improvement., identify possible trends, risks, and business improvements
- Perform Other Duties as Required

Education and Experience:

- Requires a knowledge of accounting and payroll principles related to payroll processing and reporting system in order to reconcile differences.
- Requires a Payroll Compliance Practitioner (PCP) designation. This knowledge is considered to be normally acquired either through the successful completion of a four year university education in human resources or accounting or by having the equivalent level of education.
- Working experience with SAP Payroll system and ServiceNow(Help Desk tool).
- Advance knowledge of Excel
- Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with staff, internal and external parties.

Other Requirements:

- Must be able to work 2 days in the office at 483 Bay Street, Toronto, ON
- Must be able to work on site for 5 days a week for the first 2 weeks of employment for training.

📌 Payroll Analyst (Toronto)
🏢 Hydro One
📍 Toronto