Payroll Specialist

On behalf of an award-winning market leader in IoT and big data for the agricultural sector, TEEMA is seeking a Payroll Specialist.

As our Payroll Specialist, you will be responsible for ensuring all payroll transactions are processed in an accurate and timely manner on a biweekly schedule. Using employee time entries, vacation entitlement information, and other inputs you will administer the payroll cycle and provide pay-related information to employees. You will also administer our benefits plans and help with the management of workers' compensation claims in both Canada and the US.

What you will do:

• Process bi-weekly payroll for all Canadian and US employees.
• Generate and update timely excel payroll registers for review and approval.
• Gather and enter new employee data into Ceridian, benefits portal, and time entry system.
• Process terminations and ROE's and quickly respond to final pay processing requests being cognizant of different rules and timelines for different jurisdictions.
• Process weekly meal penalty reports, review and communicate discrepancies in time cards with Field Service managers.
• Review and adjust timesheets per supervisor requests.
• Import timesheet records to Ceridian for USA payroll.
• Key in time sheet records to Ceridian for Canada payroll.
• Add secondary payments for commissions, expenses, bonuses as needed.
• Upload 401k and RRSP contributions in the benefits portal.
• Add 401k and RRSP employer matching contributions in Ceridian for employees as per company policy.
• Generate monthly Health Benefits and Reports for coding.
• Be the point of contact for the setup and changes to employee benefit enrollment and contact our providers as needed.
• Complete unemployment, earnings verification and disability requests as needed.
• Manage employee information changes in Ceridian. (Address, withholding, etc.)
• Provide payroll information for company requests (Washington, California, BC)

We want you to succeed, so you will need:

• 3+ years of Payroll Processing Experience in Canada or USA.
• Experience working within bi-weekly payroll submission deadlines.
• Experience with data entry across various systems including benefits, time entry, and payroll systems.
• Experience with Ceridian Canada and US (Powerpay, Redwood).
• Experience preparing payroll-related accounting entries for accounting systems.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel).
• Experience with Benefits administration.

Nice to have:

• Experience with T-Sheets, Synerion or other time-keeping software.
• Familiarity with processing workers comp claims.
• Experience with US jurisdictions.