Typical Day in Role:

- Leads and drives a customer focused culture throughout their team to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge
- Leads and runs the full payroll year-end cycle in SAP/ECP Payroll. This includes year-end planning, readiness checklists, timelines, year-to-date and tax balance reconciliation, and final year-end close
- Runs payroll processing in SAP/ECP, including regular and off-cycle payroll runs, payroll postings, validations, and reconciliations. Investigates, analyzes, and resolves payroll system problems
- Produces, validates, and reconciles year-end tax forms (e.g., T4, T4A, RL-1) and electronic filings. Ensures they are accurate and submitted to tax authorities and employees on time
- Processes year-end tax form amendments, cancellations, and reissues, along with prior-year adjustments. Keeps a complete audit trail and reconciles all changes
- Documents the full end-to-end year-end process, including process maps, desktop procedures, roles and responsibilities, key controls, and timelines, so the process is repeatable and ready for audit
- Gathers, documents, and validates business requirements for year-end and payroll changes. Works with Payroll Operations, Tax, Finance, Technology, and vendor partners to make sure requirements are complete and traceable
- Plans and runs testing for year-end, legislative and tax updates, support packs, and system changes. This includes unit, integration, regression, and parallel testing
- Writes User Acceptance Testing (UAT) scripts and test scenarios, runs UAT, logs and tracks defects until they are resolved, and gets business sign-off before deployment
- Works with the Payroll Transformation and ECP project teams to share year-end insights, support knowledge transfer, and make SAP/ECP Payroll more effective




- Ensures all activities are complete in compliance with the Bank’s policies and procedures, and regulatory requirements

Candidate Value Proposition:

This role offers the opportunity to lead year-end payroll activities supporting a workforce of approximately 50,000 employees within one of Canada's largest financial institutions.

The successful candidate will gain exposure to:

- Large-scale, high-volume payroll operations
- SAP/ECP Payroll processes and transformation initiatives
- Complex payroll year-end processing and tax reporting
- Cross-functional collaboration with Payroll, Finance, Tax, Technology, and Executive stakeholders
- Strategic process improvement and documentation initiatives

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
1) 3+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, Payroll Manager, Payroll Lead, or equivalent payroll-focused position

2) Hands-on experience processing payroll and managing year-end payroll activities within SAP/ECP Payroll

3) Advanced Excel skills, including: Pivot Tables, Formulas, Data analysis and reconciliation, Reporting, Macros

4) Experience planning and executing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities

5) SAP/HCM Payroll Certification (required)

Nice-To-Have Skills:
1) PLP/PCP certification

2) Audit experience

3) Technical and process documentation writing experience

4) Bilingualism in French

Soft Skills Required:

- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Exceptional attention to detail.
- Highly organized with strong planning and prioritization abilities.
- Analytical problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills.

Education:

SAP/HCM payroll certified – required

PLP/PCP certifications – nice to have

Pay: $35.00-$44.00 per hour

Expected hours: 37.5 per week

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Scarborough, ON

📌 Payroll SME (Scarborough)
🏢 Tekstaff IT Solutions
📍 Scarborough