Payroll Specialist

Description

Being part of Air Canada is to become part of an iconic Canadian symbol, recently ranked the best Airline in North America. Let your career take flight by joining our diverse and vibrant team at the leading edge of passenger aviation.

Supporting the US Payroll Team, the Specialist will be responsible for processing the US Payroll and the delivery of Payroll Services to our US employees. The specialist will be responsible for the day-to-day operations, ensuring accurate and timely delivery of all services provided to the US based population.

Key Functions and Accountability:

• Develop and maintain thorough comprehension and understanding of the Air Canada US internal payroll process, system, time and attendance recording.
• Administration of multi state payroll processing; multiple pay cycle frequencies ensuring paycheques are processed and delivered accurately and on time.
• Process ad-hoc adjustments such as manual checks, reversals, and stop payments.
• Manually calculate individual retro-active payments when required to address a change in an employee's pay.
• Manually calculate new and existing garnishments, each pay period.
• Ensure adherence to the collective agreements as well as provide guidance to internal customers in matters related to pay, time and attendance as prescribed within the agreements.
• Respond to payroll inquiries and investigate issues as they arise.
• Update employee payroll records as needed (eg. Uniforms union dues etc.).
• Process pre-payroll and post-payroll reports.
• As directed, collaborate with other internal business units as required including Labor Relations, Pensions, Compensation, Legal, Benefits, Finance, Accounts Payable, and Employee Travel to resolve employee issues and improve employee experience.
• Provide guidance to internal colleagues in other departments (eg. COE and / or Time & Attendance) who produce the payroll data.
• Process and monitor required 401k plan transactions.
• Assist with various audits as directed.
• Provide support to the HR team as necessary.

Qualifications

• Payroll and HR experience required.
  
• Mature self-starter with the ability to work under minimum supervision.
  
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, oral and written.
  
• Strong analytical and organizational skills.
  
• Demonstrated strong customer service skills.
  
• Ability to exercise judgement, confidentiality and demonstrate a high degree of tact and discretion.
  
• Ability to work in a team-oriented environment.
  
• Strong computer skills with the Microsoft Office suite and other software.
  
• Knowledge of PeopleSoft, and ADP an asset.
  
• FPC or CPP certification a asset.

Conditions of Employment:

• Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of interest, at the time any offer of employment is made and seeking any required work permits/visas or other authorizations which may be required is the sole responsibility of the candidates applying for this position.

Linguistic Requirements

Based on equal qualifications, preference will be given to bilingual candidates.

Diversity and Inclusion

Air Canada is strongly committed to Diversity and Inclusion and aims to create a healthy, accessible and rewarding work environment which highlights employees' unique contributions to our company's success.

As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from all to help us build a diverse workforce which reflects the diversity of our customers, and communities, in which we live and serve.

Air Canada thanks all candidates for their interest; however only those selected to continue in the process will be contacted.