Payroll & Finance Specialist

Are you passionate about payroll and love ensuring employee/employer taxes are accurate and reported on-time? Do you enjoy collaborating with other teams to solve problems that relate to compensation and stock incentives? Are you interested in developing cross-functional experience working on ad-hoc accounting and financial analysis engagements? Do you want to work for a highly respected technology company focused on innovation to solve customers’ toughest challenges through disruptive technologies?

What You’ll Do

• Partner with our third-party vendor to ensure all employee/employer taxes are processed timely and accurately
• Establish processes to ensure monthly, quarterly, and annual reconciliations occur
• Coordinate with UK Finance team to lead the administration of the employee share portal for employees.
• Provide support to the Controller on accounting and strategic finance assignments for month-end close.
• Establish processes to ensure employee state wages are moved/processed timely

• Collect, analyze, audit and validate payroll data for new hires, departures, and transfers, including deductions and the administration of benefits.

• Manage and file the Canadian sales tax (GST/HST, PST) and coordinate with sales tax advisory for filing requirements

• Ensure that internal controls and audit trails are in place for all payroll processes
• Assist in the administration of our employee stock option and restrictive stock plans
• Coordinate with our payroll/equity/HRIS systems and People team to ensure proper data management of systems and transfer of payroll data
• Responsible for all year-end payroll requirements, including but not limited to the reconciliation of taxable benefits, T2200’s, T4’s and T4A’s

• Assist with corporate income tax preparation, SR&ED submission, and other regulatory requirements

• Ensuring process documentation and on-line plan descriptions are up to date and in line with the stock incentive policies
• Payroll Compliance Practitioner (PCP) Certificate or Certified Payroll Manager (CPM) (completed or in progress) considered an asset

About You

• Extremely detail oriented
• Great collaboration and communication skills
• Superb analytical and problem-solving skills
• Customer focused attitude
• Drives for consistency
• Takes personal pride in high standard of outputs
• Self-motivated and self-managing