Payroll & Benefits Manager

About the Opportunity

• Process and oversee payroll operations for employees across multiple Canadian provinces, ensuring accuracy, confidentiality, and legislative compliance.
• Manage employee payroll and benefits changes, including hires, leaves, transfers, salary updates, and terminations.
• Coordinate employee leave administration and return-to-work processes in collaboration with HR and external providers.
• Prepare statutory filings, year-end reporting, reconciliations, and payroll-related financial reports.
• Support payroll compliance activities, including remittances, audits, and government reporting requirements.
• Act as a resource for employee and management payroll and benefits inquiries, resolving complex issues as needed.
• Maintain and improve payroll procedures, documentation, and reporting processes while supporting system upgrades and HR/finance initiatives.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and guidance to payroll team members while supporting continuous process improvements.

About You

• Payroll Compliance Practitioner (PCP) certification or equivalent payroll designation required.
• Bilingual in English and French, with strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in payroll, benefits administration, or payroll operations.
• Previous supervisory or managerial experience leading or supporting payroll team members.
• Strong knowledge of Canadian payroll legislation, employment standards, and statutory remittance requirements.
• Experience working with payroll systems, HRIS platforms, and payroll reporting processes.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail.
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with professionalism and discretion.
• Experience supporting audits, reconciliations and process improvement initiatives is considered an asset.

Salary Range
$93,000 - $103,000 /year

How to Apply
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This position for employment is for a current vacancy with Vaco/Highsprings client. You must currently reside within the Greater Toronto Area and be permitted to work in Canada to be considered for this opportunity. A recruiter will be in touch with you if your profile meets our clients requirements for this role.

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco/Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to the individuals skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, office location and other geographic considerations, as well as other business and organizational needs. With that said, as required by local law in geographies that require salary range disclosure, Vaco/Highspring notes the salary range for the role is noted in this job posting. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, and can participate in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the companys 401(k) retirement plan. Additional disclaimer: Unless otherwise noted in the job description, the position Vaco/Highspring is filing for is occupied. Please note, however, that Vaco/Highspring is regularly asked to provide talent to other organizations. By submitting to this position, you are agreeing to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. Submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase within Vaco/Highspring will be otherwise assessed by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco/Highspring does not have knowledge of the tools used by its clients in making final hiring decisions and cannot opine on their use of AI products.