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About the role

  • Senior Payroll Clerk processing accurate hourly payroll for Seaspan’s long-term shipbuilding operations. Managing deductions, remittances, employee records, reporting, and payroll support.

Responsibilities

  • Review and process payroll and payroll-related forms for completeness and accuracy
  • Accurately enter timecard data into the payroll system
  • Process layoffs and payroll procedures for terminated employees
  • Contact operations supervisors regarding missed or discrepant timecards
  • Process special payments, including terminations, wage increments, and retroactive pay
  • Process garnishments, vacation time, union dues, benefits, insurance, and other deductions
  • Ensure deductions are made according to schedules and collective agreements
  • Create and run internal management reports from the payroll system
  • Calculate, prepare, and report statutory remittances and voluntary payroll deductions, balancing them to the General Ledger
  • Prepare paystub sealing and distribution
  • Prepare payroll distribution, expense, benefit, and journal entries and reconcile payroll general ledger accounts
  • Assist with reconciliation, creation, and distribution of T4s/T4As
  • Maintain confidential employee files in accordance with records retention policy
  • Respond to employee, union, benefit carrier, and government agency payroll inquiries
  • Prepare timecards for upcoming pay periods
  • Provide vacation relief and peak-period support to other payroll clerks
  • Perform administrative duties such as mail, switchboard, and filing
  • Train payroll backups and other Payroll Clerks
  • Provide backup relief for other payrolls
  • Participate in meetings and system implementations
  • Prepare ad hoc reports and perform other payroll and accounting duties as assigned

Requirements

  • Completion of Grade 12 education
  • Completion of Canadian Payroll Association’s Payroll Compliance Practitioner (PCP) Certification, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
  • Minimum 3 years of payroll experience utilizing a computerized payroll program
  • Preferably experience with Oracle payroll in a large multi-union environment
  • Experience with JD Edwards’s system is an asset
  • Knowledge of payroll preparation and processing methods, practices, and procedures
  • Intermediate computer skills with word-processing, spreadsheet, and database software in a Windows environment
  • Understanding of operational inter-dependence between Human Resources and Payroll is an asset
  • Ability to communicate effectively in writing, in person, and on the telephone
  • Ability to maintain sustained attention to detail and a high level of accuracy
  • Ability to handle confidential payroll information and records
  • Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines while dealing with frequent interruptions
  • Ability to make decisions and work with limited supervision
  • Ability to exercise initiative and contribute ideas to improving departmental operations and employee service
  • Ability to work effectively as part of a team
  • Ability to interpret and apply union, government, agency, and departmental policies, procedures, and guidelines
  • Ability to perform mathematical calculations with speed and accuracy

Benefits

  • Full-time, permanent position with job stability
  • Extended health care, including paramedical services, mental health coverage, physiotherapy, and more
  • Dental care
  • Vision care
  • Life insurance
  • Medical leave coverage
  • Parental leave coverage
  • $500 personal spending account
  • Employee Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
  • Parking included
  • Complimentary shuttle bus Monday through Friday with various pick-up and drop-off points around North Vancouver
  • Optional hybrid work schedule after 90 days of onsite work and onboarding

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$5,518 - CA$6,007 per month

Degree requirement

Professional Certificate

Tech skills

Oracle

Location requirements

HybridNorth VancouverCanada

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