Jobs at City of Hamilton

Leads administration, maintenance, support, and continuous improvement of the City’s budgeting system. Manages system projects, implementations, upgrades, reporting, security administration, configuration, testing, troubleshooting, vendor relationships, and user training. Develops budget publication outputs, business cases, workplans, procedures, and automated reports. Provides functional expertise to stakeholders, leads cross-functional teams, evaluates financial processes, and coordinates process and system improvements.

Supervises payroll staff and oversees accurate, timely payroll processing, including deposits, adjustments, garnishments, remittances, reconciliations, year-end accounting, and compliance. Interprets payroll legislation, implements process improvements, manages audits, develops team goals, and serves as the escalation point for payroll issues. Leads hiring, training, coaching, performance management, and coordination with government agencies, internal departments, employees, and external stakeholders.

Provides confidential administrative support to the Director of Revenue Services and coordinates divisional activities. Duties include preparing correspondence, reports, Council submissions and meeting minutes; scheduling meetings and travel; managing records, supplies, invoices, expenses and office services; coordinating HR paperwork; responding to inquiries; supporting recruitment; mentoring junior staff; and ensuring effective information flow across the organization.

Coordinates administrative services for a General Manager, serving as a confidential advisor and office administrator. Manages calendars, correspondence, meetings, Council and committee reporting, action tracking, records, budgets, expenses, travel, office services, and departmental procedures. Liaises with elected officials, media, staff, and external contacts; monitors strategic initiatives and risks; supports process improvements and enterprise systems. Provides leadership, onboarding, training, and mentorship to administrative staff while maintaining confidentiality, accuracy, and operational continuity.

Administers short- and long-term disability claims, income protection benefits, attendance corrections, and return-to-work processes. Advises employees, managers, unions, payroll, and other stakeholders on policies, collective agreements, eligibility, and required documentation. Maintains HR and payroll data, audits benefit payments, resolves discrepancies, prepares correspondence, provides training, and supports labour relations matters involving attendance and disability claims.

Leads the development and implementation of organization-wide organizational development and learning programs aligned with talent strategy, culture, and performance goals. Responsibilities include organizational assessment, performance management, leadership and career coaching, vendor management, blended learning design, learning technology recommendations, program evaluation, and change management. The role also serves as a subject matter expert, manages corporate initiatives, and ensures timely, effective, and sustainable adoption of organizational changes.

Provides strategic and consultative HR partnership to assigned City business units. Advises leadership on staffing, labour and employee relations, performance and talent management, succession planning, compensation, organizational design, change management, engagement, and workplace culture. Acts as the primary HR contact, collaborates with HR functional teams, supports HR program implementation, ensures policy and legislative compliance, and recommends continuous improvements.

Provides confidential administrative support to the Director of Epidemiology and Wellbeing, including calendar and correspondence management, meeting coordination, records administration, scheduling, financial processing, travel arrangements, inquiry triage, and report preparation. Supports Public Health administrative coordination, emergency control group activities, Board of Health submissions, information dissemination, procurement processes, and backup coverage for departmental administrative roles.

Supervise HR Records operations and staff while ensuring accurate, secure, compliant employee and organizational data. Lead HR data quality audits, reconciliations, governance frameworks, reporting, dashboards, and continuous improvement initiatives. Oversee HR system administration, access controls, integrations, lifecycle transactions, and configuration across PeopleSoft, Oracle Cloud HCM, and UKG Pro WFM. Collaborate with HR, Payroll, Finance, IT, and other stakeholders to resolve data issues, support system changes, and improve HR processes.

Develops and leads data strategy, governance, AI competency, machine learning, automation, and predictive modeling initiatives for Hamilton Public Health. Builds data pipelines and warehouses, analyzes health trends, supports outbreak surveillance, and communicates insights to senior leaders and stakeholders. Collaborates with epidemiologists, engineers, analysts, technology partners, government agencies, and multidisciplinary teams while advising on policy, process improvement, business planning, and public health technology adoption.

Leads stormwater planning for the City of Hamilton, including watershed studies, drainage plans, hydraulic modeling, infrastructure design, permitting, consultant oversight, development reviews, budgeting, and environmental coordination. Supervises multidisciplinary staff, provides technical leadership, develops policies and procedures, supports capital planning, evaluates stormwater facilities, communicates with agencies and the public, and ensures compliance with municipal, provincial, and federal requirements.

Leads the client-side implementation of a large-scale Finance and Supply Chain ERP transformation. Responsibilities include project planning, scheduling, resource and vendor coordination, governance, executive reporting, risk and issue management, stakeholder alignment, testing, data migration, integrations, deployment, change management, and value realization. The role requires managing cross-functional teams and implementation partners while ensuring delivery meets approved scope, timelines, governance standards, and strategic business objectives.

Performs accounting, budgeting, reconciliation, reporting, journal entry, invoice, contract payment, deposit, and financial data processing duties for an assigned City portfolio. Supports budget preparation, forecasting, variance analysis, year-end reporting, funding claims, account monitoring, and client inquiries. Develops complex Excel reports and may recommend improvements to business applications. Provides administrative, training, policy, correspondence, and special project support to the Business Administrator.