Manager, Payroll

Accelerate your career with the most awarded Air Cargo Airline in Canada!

Cargojet is Canadas leading provider of time-sensitive overnight air cargo services and carries overpounds of cargo each business night. Cargojet operates its network across North America each business night utilizing a fleet of all-cargo aircraft Cargojet has been awarded one of Canadas 50 Best Managed Companies as well as being awarded the Shippers Choice Award for the best Air Cargo Carrier in Canada for the past number of years.

Being part of Cargojet will allow you to become a part of a diverse and vibrant family at the leading edge of the air cargo industry both domestically and internationally. Cargojet team members are dedicated hardworking and have a strong sense of leadership and commitment.

Job Summary:

The Manager Payroll is responsible for leading end-to-end payroll operations and ensuring accurate timely and compliant payroll processing across all employee groups. This role requires strong hands-on expertise in UKG Pro and UKG Workforce Management (WFM) with responsibility for payroll system configuration troubleshooting reporting integrations process optimization and data integrity.

The Manager provides leadership to the payroll team ensures compliance with federal and provincial legislation and collective agreements and oversees year-end audit remittance and reconciliation activities. Working closely with HR Finance IT and operational stakeholders the role also leads continuous improvement initiatives and supports enhancements to payroll processes controls and UKG functionality.

Job Duties:

• Manage end-to-end payroll processing on a bi-weekly basis across all employee groups ensuring accuracy timeliness compliance and appropriate payroll controls.
• Lead and supervise the payroll team providing guidance training coaching workload management and performance management to maintain high standards of accuracy and service.
• Review and validate payroll transactions including new hires terminations salary and wage changes bonuses retroactive payments leaves taxable benefits and other payroll adjustments.
• Ensure statutory deductions benefits pension and RRSP contributions garnishments and other payroll deductions are accurately processed reconciled and remitted within required timelines.
• Ensure payroll practices processes and system configurations comply with applicable federal and provincial legislation CRA requirements the Canada Labour Code employment standards legislation company policies and collective agreements; proactively identify compliance risks and implement corrective actions.
• Lead and support payroll audits reconciliations year-end activities and statutory reporting including T4s T4As RL-1s taxable benefits and other required filings while maintaining appropriate documentation and internal controls.
• Maintain current knowledge of legislative taxation and regulatory changes and ensure applicable payroll processes and system configurations are updated accordingly.
• Serve as the payroll subject matter expert for UKG with hands-on responsibility for payroll processing configuration troubleshooting reporting controls testing and continuous system optimization.
• Maintain and optimize payroll-related functionality and integrations within UKG including earnings and deduction codes taxation pay rules employee data workflows timekeeping/WFM Finance and other related systems.
• Partner with HR IT Finance UKG and other vendors to troubleshoot system and data issues and support system upgrades enhancements implementations integrations configuration changes and user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Lead and drive payroll transformation and continuous improvement initiatives by leveraging UKG functionality to streamline processes increase automation strengthen controls and data integrity and improve payroll accuracy and operational efficiency.
• Develop maintain and analyse payroll reports audits queries and reconciliation tools to support payroll validation labour cost analysis tax remittances headcount reporting financial reconciliation and management decision-making.
• Maintain payroll procedures system documentation configuration records and process controls to support consistency compliance audit requirements and business continuity.
• Respond to payroll-related inquiries and escalations from employees management auditors government agencies and other stakeholders in a timely and professional manner.
• Collaborate with HR Finance IT and other stakeholders on compensation changes budgeting and forecasting employee data management organizational changes policy changes process standardization and other payroll-related projects.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Job Requirements:

• Minimum 12 years of progressive Canadian payroll experience including at least 5 years in a supervisory or managerial role.
• Payroll Leadership Professional (PLP) designation required;
• Strong knowledge of Canadian payroll legislation taxation statutory deductions year-end requirements and payroll compliance.
• Extensive hands-on experience with UKG Pro Payroll is required including payroll processing configuration troubleshooting reporting testing and system optimization.
• Strong hands-on experience with UKG Workforce Management (WFM) is required including payroll/timekeeping integrations system implementations and upgrades configuration changes troubleshooting and user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Proven experience leading or playing a key leadership role in an end-to-end UKG implementation is required including requirements gathering system configuration integrations testing/UAT data validation go-live and post-implementation support.
• Demonstrated experience in payroll process improvement automation system controls reconciliations and data integrity.
• Experience managing payroll in a multi-province and/or federally regulated environment is strongly preferred; experience working with unionized employee groups is an asset.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to investigate complex payroll and system issues and identify effective solutions.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel including PivotTables XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP complex formulas data analysis and reconciliations.
• Strong leadership interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with HR Finance IT operations and external vendors.
• High level of accuracy attention to detail discretion and confidentiality with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet strict payroll deadlines.

Important to Know:

• Cargojet is an equal-opportunity employer. We thank you for your interest. Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
• We are committed to providing accommodations for persons with disabilities. If you require accommodation we will work with you to meet your needs.
• At Cargojet we make safety the highest priority. Because of this priority and as we operate in a safety-sensitive environment we require all employees to abstain from consuming Cannabis in and outside of the workplace. This is a critical element of our drug and alcohol policy that all employees must comply with at all times.

Required Experience:

Manager