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Payroll Manager opportunity with a large, fast-paced, complex, and stable Canadian company with a friendly and down-to-earth corporate culture. Great opportunity for someone with great mentorship and leadership abilities who wants to work with a collaborative and supportive team. Solid total compensation. Strategic leadership of the companys overall payroll function.
 

Who- the Company: 

Our client is a very well-established, interesting, and reputable company with operations throughout Canada and the US. The company has a dynamic culture and friendly people. Many people have worked at the company for 5+ years.
 

What- the Role:

On behalf of our client, Swim Recruiting is looking for a new Payroll Manager who will lead 2-3 direct reports (Team Leads) who in turn have their own direct reports, for a total payroll team size of over 12 people. This is the top Payroll position in the whole company, reporting into an HR leader. The total payroll size is around 4000, with a mix of salaried and hourly employees, across multiple Canadian provinces and multiple US states. Using various payroll systems and time & attendance systems.
The Payroll Manager will not be regularly processing payroll themselves (other than to support their team if needed during sick days, vacations, emergencies, etc.). Instead, the Payroll Manager will be focused on strategic leadership of the payroll function.

• Performance management of the payroll team (distributed across Canada and the US).
• Taking the lead on modernization and automation of payroll processes, and shifting the entire payroll function toward streamlined, efficient, and tech‑enabled processes.
• Analyzing the current payroll team structure and ensuring strategic succession planning and workforce planning.
• Reviewing existing payroll technologies and seeking out opportunities for system optimization or new system implementation.
• Representing the payroll function in leadership meetings with HR, Finance, and other functions.
• Managing post-acquisition payroll integration (this company is growing both organically and through M&A).

Who- the Candidate:

On behalf of our client, Swim Recruiting is looking for an experienced Payroll leader with deep expertise in Canadian payroll operations. Qualified candidates will have 10+ years of payroll experience, including at least 5 years working in a formal people-management capacity.

• Strong and supportive leadership and mentorship capabilities.
• Experience managing a large (minimum 1000 employees), complex, high-volume, multi-provincial payroll, with diverse employee groups, including hourly, salaried, permanent, and casual.
• Experience with unionized environments is an asset (not required)
• US payroll experience is considered a nice-to-have, but excellence in Canadian payroll is the top priority.
• Payroll Technology:
  • Experience with modern, enterprise-level payroll, time & attendance, and workforce management systems, such as Ceridian, UKG, Workday, ADP, etc.
  • Proficient in Excel
  • Experience leading payroll system projects is highly preferred (conversions, implementations, etc.).
• Warm, approachable, and professional communication skills (written and verbal).
• Professional payroll certification (PCP and/or CPM) is strongly preferred.

How Much:

Competitive base salary commensurate with payroll experience, skills, and qualifications, in the range of $115,000 to $135,000.
Additionally, the Payroll Manager will be eligible for an annual bonus, 4 weeks’ paid vacation, great health & dental benefits, a generous RRSP matching program, an employee share purchase program, relevant professional development support, and other perks. Please discuss your total compensation expectations in further detail with SWIM!
 

Where:

The company is headquartered in Burnaby, close to rapid transit. Full-time in office for the first few months to build relationship, and after that the Payroll Manager can choose to work from home 1 day/week, with flexibility based on work and personal life schedules. There will be some work travel in this role (in Canada and the US), no more than once a quarter, on average. These work trips are typically scheduled months in advance, so the Payroll Manager can plan personal/family life accordingly.
 

When & How to Apply: 

Swim Recruiting will be presenting the profiles of short-listed candidates directly to the hiring team. If you already have a Recruiter at SWIM, please reach out very soon. If you do not yet have a contact at Swim Recruiting, please hit “APPLY” to send us your resume. Thank you!