Payroll Manager

If you are looking to join one of Canada’s fastest growing companies, goeasy Ltd. is the place for you! Recognized as Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures, GTA's Top 100 Employers, one of Canada’s Top 50 Fintech’s and North America’s Most Engaged Workplaces, we want the best and brightest to join our team.

We are a publicly traded company on the TSX with over 4000% shareholder return since 2001, goeasy operates two main business units. easyfinancial is our consumer lending business that offers secured and unsecured installment loans of up to $35,000 and easyhome is Canada’s largest merchandise lease-to-own company. It is our vision to provide everyday Canadians the path for a better tomorrow, today by giving them access to the credit they need and by offering them a second chance when they have been turned down by banks and traditional lenders. With a retail network of nearly 400 locations across Canada and over 1900 employees, we are able to build lasting relationships with our customers as we help them rebuild their credit and graduate towards prime rates and a brighter financial future.

Reporting into the Director, Payroll, goeasy is seeking a talented and hands-on Payroll Manager to lead a team in a highly dynamic & fast paced environment!

Responsibilities:

There are 3 main areas of responsibility for this role today, with endless opportunities to shape the future of how we deliver a best in class Payroll experience to our employees.

1) Leadership

• Manage payroll team; provide training and guidance on a daily basis.
• Systematize the workflow to ensure all cutoffs and deadlines are met.
• Create, maintain and ensure strict adherence to internal control procedures
• Lead problem resolution with other departments
• Lead contact for payroll related questions from internal and external auditors
• Develop ‘Best Practices’ within the department, especially on the customer service, timeliness and accuracy aspects.
• Manage the vendor relationship with payroll provider
• Manage assigned departmental initiatives

2) Professional and Technical

• Identify Ultipro codes which should be revised or deleted based on company’s current reporting needs.
• Ensure on-time, and accurate remittances/payments of all payroll taxes and worker’s compensation remittances, including those administered internally and through Ultimate Software Payment Services.
• Contacts third parties for any payroll concerns.
• Cross checking of reports generated by the Payroll Reporting Analyst prior to release to concerned department.
• Ensure complete reconciliation of biweekly, quarterly, monthly and annual statutory compliance reporting requirements
• Final examination of preview reports (i.e. pay ending dates, pay dates, zero net, pay-offs which would affect the GL entries) prior to payroll run.
• Release monthly reports to concerned departments.
• Ownership of Time & Attendance administration for all company codes.
• Administration of payroll GL process; liaise with Finance teams
• Attend to payroll escalated issues, comments and inquiries
• Recognize further areas of improvements through constant assessment of each payroll associate’s work load.
• Completion of special requests as they arise
• Maintain and enforce access control to ensure a confidential and tightly controlled environment
• Monitor updates on Payroll Processing and Reporting (newly created) manuals

3) Administration

• Establishment of each payroll associate’s KRA’s for the year.
• Regular monitoring of payroll associates’ quarterly reports as indicated on their KRA’s.
• Rating payroll associates’ performance for the year.
• Conduct monthly team meetings (with minutes saved on the payroll drive) to discuss addressed payroll issues, changes and reminders.
• Delegation of tasks outside the normal payroll processing.
• Training and development for new staff

 Qualifications:

• Minimum of 3 years of managing/supervising a payroll team
• Knowledge with SaaS based payroll; Ultimate Software (Ultipro) experience is preferred
• Individual is a true professional with excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• High level of quality/accuracy in work, detail oriented and low level of supervision
• Able to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
• Ability to make decisions independently
• Capable of managing multiple tasks at once and prioritizing work
• Ability to create a sense of urgency in work and react quickly and appropriately to problems at the store level.
• Ability to comfortably interact with all levels of Management
• High level of computer literacy, Intermediate to Advanced skill level with Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office Applications.

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

goeasy is an equal opportunity employer. In addition, goeasy is committed to providing accommodations for applicants upon request at any stage of the recruitment process in accordance with all legislative requirements throughout Canada.   Please let us know if you require an accommodation due to a disability during any aspect of the recruitment process and we will work with you to address your needs.

Additional Information:

All candidates considered for hire must successfully pass a criminal background check, credit check, and validation of their work experience to qualify for hire.  We thank all interested applicants, however we will only be contacting those for interview who possess the skills and qualifications outlined above.