ref. no.
1000313
type
Hybrid
location
Mississauga, ON
salary
$Competitive
status
Contract
Position: Payroll Administrator (Full-Cycle SAP)
Location: Mississauga (Hybrid)
Salary: $100,000 (Prorated)
Job Type: 6-month contract
Posting Type: Open vacancy
Position Overview:
Our client is seeking an experienced Payroll Administrator to manage and coordinate full-cycle payroll activities while ensuring compliance with legislative, collective agreement, and organizational requirements. This role plays a key part in maintaining payroll accuracy, audit readiness, and continuous process improvement within the payroll function.
Key Responsibilities:
Payroll Administration
- Prioritize, perform, and coordinate full-cycle payroll activities using SAP (required).
- Input and maintain payroll data for new hires, job changes, terminations, transfers, retroactive pay, allowances, overtime, leaves of absence, and benefits.
- Prepare and process payroll in accordance with payroll manuals, collective agreements, and People & Culture policies.
- Audit payroll registers to ensure accuracy and compliance with legislative and collective agreement requirements.
- Finalize and post payroll with approval, ensuring general ledger entries are accurate and corrected as needed.
- Generate bank deposit files and reconcile payroll accumulation and control accounts within SAP.
- Process payroll corrections including tax adjustments, CPP exemptions, pension reinstatements, sick leave, and vacation adjustments.
- Ensure accuracy of T4 reporting, tax fields, and payroll-related accounts.
Compliance & Reporting
- Ensure payroll processing complies with ESA, CRA, Service Canada requirements, collective agreements, and internal policies.
- Respond to internal and external audit requests, including year-end and regulatory audits.
- Support year-end payroll processes, including T4/T4A and T5 preparation.
- Investigate payroll discrepancies, explain variances, and implement corrective actions.
- Liaise with the Canada Revenue Agency as required.
Systems, Projects & Documentation
- Support SAP payroll and time & attendance system upgrades, implementations, and testing.
- Participate in system validation, documentation, and process improvements.
- Assist with payroll contingency planning and disaster recovery.
- Maintain and update payroll procedures, manuals, and training documentation.
Qualifications & Experience:
- 4–6+ years of full-cycle payroll experience, ideally within Energy & Utilities, Construction, or Safety/Regulated environments.
- Hands-on SAP payroll experience is required.
- Previous experience working within a unionized environment required.
- Strong knowledge of payroll legislation, deductions, and reporting.
- Experience working with multiple stakeholders, including pay centres and external agencies.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
To apply, please send your resume to Christina Cerra at christina.cerra@quantum.ca.
REFER A TEMP HIRE AND EARN A BONUS! For details, click here.
All applications are reviewed by our recruitment team, and hiring decisions are made by people. We may also use AI-enabled tools to support parts of the application review process.
Location: Mississauga (Hybrid)
Salary: $100,000 (Prorated)
Job Type: 6-month contract
Posting Type: Open vacancy
Position Overview:
Our client is seeking an experienced Payroll Administrator to manage and coordinate full-cycle payroll activities while ensuring compliance with legislative, collective agreement, and organizational requirements. This role plays a key part in maintaining payroll accuracy, audit readiness, and continuous process improvement within the payroll function.
Key Responsibilities:
Payroll Administration
- Prioritize, perform, and coordinate full-cycle payroll activities using SAP (required).
- Input and maintain payroll data for new hires, job changes, terminations, transfers, retroactive pay, allowances, overtime, leaves of absence, and benefits.
- Prepare and process payroll in accordance with payroll manuals, collective agreements, and People & Culture policies.
- Audit payroll registers to ensure accuracy and compliance with legislative and collective agreement requirements.
- Finalize and post payroll with approval, ensuring general ledger entries are accurate and corrected as needed.
- Generate bank deposit files and reconcile payroll accumulation and control accounts within SAP.
- Process payroll corrections including tax adjustments, CPP exemptions, pension reinstatements, sick leave, and vacation adjustments.
- Ensure accuracy of T4 reporting, tax fields, and payroll-related accounts.
Compliance & Reporting
- Ensure payroll processing complies with ESA, CRA, Service Canada requirements, collective agreements, and internal policies.
- Respond to internal and external audit requests, including year-end and regulatory audits.
- Support year-end payroll processes, including T4/T4A and T5 preparation.
- Investigate payroll discrepancies, explain variances, and implement corrective actions.
- Liaise with the Canada Revenue Agency as required.
Systems, Projects & Documentation
- Support SAP payroll and time & attendance system upgrades, implementations, and testing.
- Participate in system validation, documentation, and process improvements.
- Assist with payroll contingency planning and disaster recovery.
- Maintain and update payroll procedures, manuals, and training documentation.
Qualifications & Experience:
- 4–6+ years of full-cycle payroll experience, ideally within Energy & Utilities, Construction, or Safety/Regulated environments.
- Hands-on SAP payroll experience is required.
- Previous experience working within a unionized environment required.
- Strong knowledge of payroll legislation, deductions, and reporting.
- Experience working with multiple stakeholders, including pay centres and external agencies.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
To apply, please send your resume to Christina Cerra at christina.cerra@quantum.ca.
REFER A TEMP HIRE AND EARN A BONUS! For details, click here.
All applications are reviewed by our recruitment team, and hiring decisions are made by people. We may also use AI-enabled tools to support parts of the application review process.
apply now
contact us