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About the role

  • Payroll Supervisor overseeing unionized payroll team delivering bi-weekly payroll for Seaspan Shipyards. Leading payroll operations and providing oversight to ensure compliant and timely payroll processing.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee the accurate and timely processing of complex, full-cycle bi-weekly payrolls, including regular payroll, adjustments, retroactive payments, and off-cycle payments.
  • Ensure payroll operations comply with legislation, collective agreements, company policies, and regulatory requirements.
  • Review payroll reconciliations, audits, and reporting to ensure payroll accuracy and compliance.
  • Monitor payroll workflows and deadlines to ensure service levels and operational requirements are consistently met.
  • Support payroll year-end activities, including T4s, reconciliations, statutory reporting, and audits.
  • Resolve queries from internal or external customers by providing information on complex processes and related policies.
  • Provide leadership, coaching, training, and performance support to payroll team members.
  • Foster a collaborative, customer-focused, and high-accountability team environment.
  • Stay up to date on collective agreement requirements and interpret these in day-to-day practices where necessary.
  • Identify needs for system performance to process payroll information accurately and efficiently.

Requirements

  • Post-secondary degree supplemented by advanced coursework in payroll and accounting.
  • Minimum of ten (10) years’ experience processing full-cycle multi-company payrolls.
  • Minimum of three (3) years of experience in a leadership or supervisory capacity.
  • Completion of the National Payroll Institute (NPI) Compliance Practitioner certification.
  • Completion of, or active enrolment in, the National Payroll Institute Certified Payroll Manager program.
  • Previous experience managing unionized employees preferred.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of union contract interpretation (required).
  • Strong functional and technical payroll expertise.
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Proven ability to lead and support payroll teams in a deadline-driven environment.
  • Strong attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced setting.
  • Customer-focused with a commitment to providing responsive and professional service.
  • Ability to work effectively both independently and collaboratively across teams.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
  • Ability to interpret and apply legislation, regulations, policies, and collective agreements with professionalism and discretion.

Benefits

  • Optional hybrid work schedule after 90 days of onsite work and onboarding
  • Subject to the terms of the Flexible Work Policy Agreement

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

CA$112,500 - CA$137,500 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

HybridNorth VancouverCanada

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