PAYROLL & BENEFITS SPECIALIST

Our property management client is adding a Payroll & Benefits Specialist to their busy team!

Responsibilities:

• Prepares, audits, and corrects assigned payroll input through Payroll Guardian on a bi-weekly basis for unionized and non-unionized employees, salary and hourly, for the company.
• Maintains and updates assigned employee information including address changes, wage/salary increases, transfers, new employees, terminations, etc.
• Prepares ROEs as required for assigned payrolls.
• Responsible for the administration of assigned group benefits plans, which includes setting up new members, processing benefit changes, calculating payroll deductions/taxable benefits, billing verification, and payroll reconciliation.
• Ensures all sites are providing benefits information on time and that forms have been completed correctly and regularly audits the benefits process.
• Verifies journal entries on a bi-weekly basis for entry, verification, and posting by the Junior Accountant.
• Performs miscellaneous duties including monitoring and reconciling garnishments and other deductions, processing payroll AP cheque requests, managing and maintaining regular reports (i.e. sick leave, vacation, seniority), ad hoc reporting, and responding to inquiries

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Close to 5 years of experience in processing high-volume in-house payroll
• Experience in processing unionized payroll is ideal but not mandatory
• Intermediate MS Office skills (Word, Excel, Outlook)
• PCP certification is required
• Experience with Payroll Guardian (PGI), Avanti is considered an asset
• Work well under pressure and able to meet multiple deadlines
• Able to work well under minimal supervision
• Strong attention to detail and analytical skills
• Excellent organizational and multitasking skills
• Able to exercise a high level of professionalism and discretion with confidential information