Top Payroll Specialist Jobs in Toronto

Support payroll accounting for multiple employee groups by preparing journal entries, reconciling accounts, assisting with payroll processing and financial close, managing statutory remittances and year-end reporting, supporting audits, and improving payroll controls and processes. The role partners with Payroll, HR, Benefits, Compensation, and Finance while maintaining confidentiality, accuracy, compliance, and timely issue resolution.

Administer bi-weekly payroll for more than 500 Canadian employees using ADP Workforce Now, including payroll inputs, reconciliations, remittances, year-end T4s, ROEs, compliance, audits, and employee inquiries. Support onboarding, offboarding, benefits, HR operations, and one HR COE specialization covering HRIS, compensation, or benefits. Maintain data integrity, confidentiality, controls, and accurate reporting while partnering with HR and Finance.

Administers Canadian and U.S. payroll tax compliance, including tax-slip balancing, government filings, reconciliations, amendments, year-end adjustments, expatriate and shadow payrolls, retiree and executive payrolls, and audit support. Maintains Workday payroll data integrity, processes manual payments, resolves employee and stakeholder inquiries, supports pay-component testing, and contributes to process improvements and payroll projects.

Processes bi-weekly union and non-union payroll, verifies time and adjustments, manages termination payments, and supports payroll inquiries. Completes year-end activities including T4s, pension adjustments, Records of Employment, and regulatory reporting. Maintains payroll data security, reconciles records, transmits electronic deposits, and collaborates with HR and employees while ensuring compliance with legislation, collective agreements, policies, and deadlines.

Oversee end-to-end Canadian payroll processing, ensuring accurate calculations, statutory deductions, tax compliance, and timely delivery. Resolve complex payroll issues, conduct root-cause analysis, and partner with vendors and internal stakeholders. Lead process improvements, quality reviews, automation, training, and team mentoring while supporting operational excellence and service-level commitments.

Processes and supports US payroll activities. The job description provides no additional responsibilities or qualification details.

Process biweekly and semimonthly payroll for U.S. and Canadian employees across multiple entities. Validate time, earnings, deductions, adjustments, and final pay; reconcile registers and funding. Support payroll compliance, year-end reporting, benefits and leave payments, retirement contributions, audits, and employee inquiries. Maintain accurate records, resolve discrepancies, and escalate complex tax or compliance issues. Strong Excel skills and multijurisdictional payroll experience are required.

Build AI agents, reusable skills, and automated workflows to streamline payroll and equity operations. Integrate Rippling, E*TRADE, spreadsheets, and related systems using APIs, scripts, and automation tools. Develop validation, reconciliation, exception-handling, and reporting solutions; evaluate AI outputs; document workflows; train teammates; and measure improvements in efficiency, accuracy, and reliability while collaborating with Payroll, Equity, Accounting, and People teams.

Lead payroll reconciliation, accounting, remittances, balancing, reporting, year-end activities, audits, and statutory filings for a complex workforce. Provide payroll expertise to coordinators and stakeholders, ensure compliance with Canadian legislation, administer pension and benefits processes, improve controls and procedures, and support payroll operations during peak periods. The role partners with HR, Finance, and operational teams while handling confidential employee information.

Processes bi-weekly and ad hoc payroll, pension, and benefits transactions; performs reconciliations, remittances, reporting, and year-end activities. Responds to employee and management inquiries, maintains payroll and benefits systems, ensures legislative and policy compliance, reviews procedures, resolves discrepancies, and recommends process improvements. Acts as a subject matter expert and provides backup and program support within the finance branch.

Processes Canadian payroll end to end, including data entry, uploads, audits, error resolution, reporting, compliance, year-end forms, and time-management corrections. Maintains payroll procedures and employee information, supports payroll managers and senior associates, provides customer service, and recommends process improvements. Requires a college diploma, three years of payroll experience, PCP accreditation, and proficiency with payroll, HR, time-tracking, and Microsoft Office systems.

Process Canadian and/or US payroll cycles, including employee changes, payroll inputs, deductions, and adjustments. Audit timesheets, resolve payroll inquiries, maintain accurate records, complete payroll audits and year-end tax reporting, and support payroll reconciliations and remittances. The role collaborates with HR and Finance, ensures compliance with applicable legislation, and handles confidential employee information.

Administer end-to-end Canadian payroll for salaried and hourly employees across multiple provinces, including Quebec. Responsibilities include payroll processing, statutory remittances, year-end filings, reconciliations, compliance, system configuration, employee support, reporting, audits, data security, and process improvement.

Oversee payroll, benefits, and pension administration for all employee categories. Ensure legislative compliance, accurate payroll processing, reconciliations, year-end tax reporting, leave tracking, budgeting, and financial reporting. Manage the HRIS, including audits, upgrades, training, and troubleshooting. Administer the OMERS defined benefit pension plan, support benefits enrollment and audits, prepare audit documentation, and contribute to People and Culture projects.

Administer multi-provincial payroll and employee benefits for approximately 900 employees, including Quebec payroll, commissions, deductions, remittances, reconciliations, statutory reporting, year-end activities, retirement plans, vendor coordination, and employee inquiries. The role ensures data accuracy, legislative compliance, audit readiness, and process improvement while supporting benefits renewals, communications, and HR initiatives.

Manage end-to-end payroll for US, Canadian, Lithuanian, contractor, and EOR workers. Responsibilities include payroll processing and corrections, tax compliance, registrations, retirement funding, reconciliations, audits, stipends, reimbursements, accruals, and payroll-related accounting. Partner with People Operations, Finance, IT, international teams, and payroll vendors to ensure accurate, compliant, and timely payments.

Owns end-to-end payroll for six global entities and EOR employees across multiple jurisdictions. Responsibilities include payroll compliance, tax and statutory requirements, reconciliations, controls, variance analysis, audits, provider management, reporting, and issue resolution. Partners with Finance, People Experience, and Legal while supporting payroll transformation, process redesign, data migration, testing, UAT, and Rippling implementation. The role also improves workflows through automation and proactively manages payroll risks.

Process end-to-end Canadian payroll across multiple provinces, including payroll inputs, statutory deductions, remittances, garnishments, reconciliations, year-end T4 activities, and audit documentation. Partner with HR, Finance, payroll providers, and employees to resolve issues and maintain accurate data. Improve payroll controls and efficiency through automation, system enhancements, implementations, integrations, testing, and documentation.

Manage complex U.S. payroll operations and serve as a subject matter expert for Workday Payroll and UKG Workforce Management. Support system implementations, upgrades, testing, reporting, audits, reconciliations, documentation, training, compliance, issue resolution, and process improvements while partnering with HR, Finance, IT, and vendors.

Manage accurate, timely payroll processing for European countries, ensuring compliance with local labor and tax laws. Validate timecards, audit payroll registers, resolve discrepancies, support T&A training, create SOPs, implement payroll policies, and lead process improvement projects while partnering with stakeholders to address payroll inquiries.

Administers payroll and employee benefits for unionized and non-unionized employees. Responsibilities include payroll processing, reconciliations, benefits and pension administration, reporting, compliance monitoring, collective agreement interpretation, employee support, audits, and process improvement. The role collaborates with Finance, Human Resources, unions, service providers, and operational leaders while ensuring accurate, timely payroll and benefits administration.

Own full-cycle payroll for multiple Canadian clients across varied pay cycles. Process complex transactions, review reconciliations and remittances, manage year-end filings, and ensure federal and provincial compliance. Serve as an escalation point for payroll issues, advise clients, conduct quality audits, improve workflows, maintain SOPs, and mentor team members. Use WagePoint and Karbon to improve automation, accuracy, communication, and service delivery while researching legislative updates.

Processes Canadian and/or US payroll cycles, including employee changes, time and attendance inputs, deductions, audits, tax reporting, reconciliations, and remittances. Resolves routine payroll inquiries and discrepancies while maintaining accurate records, protecting confidential information, and ensuring compliance with applicable legislation. Collaborates with HR and Finance and uses payroll systems, ticketing tools, and Excel to support timely payroll operations.

Process the full payroll cycle for approximately 400 Canadian employees. Responsibilities include validating payroll data, investigating variances, maintaining employee records, preparing employment records and government reports, generating month-end reports, recording payroll journal entries, responding to employee inquiries, supporting audits, participating in year-end activities, and assisting with projects.

Process the full payroll cycle for approximately 400 Canadian employees. Responsibilities include validating payroll data, investigating variances, maintaining employee records, preparing government reports and records of employment, generating month-end reports, creating payroll journal entries, supporting employee inquiries and audits, participating in year-end activities, and assisting with projects.