Payroll Specialist - Canada

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.
 
Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering—for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support.
Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:
 
Why Syneos Health
• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life. 
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress. 

Job Responsibilities

Core Responsibilities

• Coordinate and processes employee data (new hires, changes, additional earnings, and benefit deductions) from the HR system of record to the payroll system, ensuring employees earnings and deductions are within 99% accuracy, and in compliance with tax and legal requirements and Company established guidelines.
• Gathers and processes employee Time & Attendance data from the Time & Labor system to payroll, including validating time data using standard reports. Identifying and research variances in excess or lower than standard using Excel and other reporting tools in the systems. Support employee questions and research as they arise.
• Ensures employees’ federal and provincial tax initial setup is accurate and in compliance with CRA and Revenue Quebec regulations; monitor and process, subsequent changes due to employee address changes/relocations.
• Performs all biweekly post payroll activities including storing and providing appropriate payroll documents to the appropriate GL teams. Support all GL questions regarding payroll activities.
• Performs other payroll related tasks, including but not limited to preparing calculation of special payments including leave of absence, retro and pro-rated salaries as needed, calculation of vacation for employee absents during the year. Support special requests and final pay requirements as needed.
• Communicates any pay-related issues to management and other payroll staff, including identifying root-cause(s) and recommendation to resolve the issue.
• Provides stellar customer service to employees via monitoring the payroll queue in our customer service ticket tracking system and meeting team SLAs. Addresses level 1 and general level 2 inquiries related to payroll, benefits, taxes, and one-time earnings. Identify and create new knowledge articles supporting frequent employee inquiries.
• Prepare, disseminate, and support payroll related filings and documentation, such as year-end tax slips (T4 and RL1), Records of Employment, T2200 and TP64 Declarations of Conditions of Employment and other statements.
• Performs other work-related duties as assigned. Minimal travel may be required (up to 10%).
   

Qualifications
Education Requirements & additional Qualifications

• College degree in Business, Accounting, Mathematics, or related discipline with 3+ years of relevant experience preferred. Significant work experience also will be considered.
• Canadian Payroll Association Certification preferred (National Payroll Institute certification preferred).
• Bilingual (French / English) is required.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Software is essential.
• Experience using ADP or similar payroll processing systems, Time Modules, preferably Oracle Time and Labor (OTL).
• Excellent attention to detail, accuracy, and organizational, interpersonal, and team-oriented skills.
• Ability to perform several tasks simultaneously to meet deadlines is necessary.

Disclaimer
Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.
 

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Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive.  The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above.   Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract.  Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees.  The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.