Larry Mattu
Forward-thinking payroll professional with 6+ years' experience
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Forward-thinking payroll professional with 6+ years' experience in payroll experience across BC, AB, MB, and ON. Possess a strong customer service focus with great attention to detail, excellent communication, and interpersonal skills. Organized and seasoned in both unionized and non-unionized company settings.
Experience
Payroll and Benefits Specialist - Frontier Power Products ULC
(2025-08)
- Process accurate bi-weekly and semi-monthly payroll while consistently meeting payroll deadlines.
- Investigate payroll discrepancies and resolve employee inquiries regarding pay, deductions, taxable benefits, vacation, and leave.
- Administer health, dental, life, disability, pension, and employee assistance programs.
- Coordinate benefit enrollments, life event changes, transfers, terminations, and annual renewals within UKG.
- Serve as the primary contact for payroll, benefits, pension, and leave-related inquiries.
- Ensure compliance with payroll legislation, CRA requirements, Employment Standards, and company policies.
- Coordinate payroll remittances, statutory deductions, pension contributions, and benefit premiums with Finance.
- Complete month-end and year-end payroll activities including vacation accruals, taxable benefits, T4, T4A, T2200, ROEs, and statutory adjustments.
- Review and respond to PIER reports and support internal and external payroll audits.
- Reconcile group benefit invoices and pension contributions while resolving discrepancies with vendors.
- Coordinate disability, maternity, parental, and other employee leave programs.
- Prepare payroll, workforce, benefits, pension, and financial reports for leadership.
- Collaborate with HR and Finance to ensure accurate General Ledger postings.
- Lead payroll process improvements, HRIS enhancements, and payroll-related projects.
- Maintain employee payroll records including TD1s, banking information, tax elections, and benefit data.
Payroll and Benefits Specialist - Neptune Bulk Terminals (North Vancouver) - North Vancouver
(2023-02 - 2025-07)
- Processing and submitting the Biweekly and Semi-Monthly payroll for Salaried, Hourly and Union Employees.
- Lead the project of implementation of New HRIS and Payroll System and combing the General Ledger with the payroll system.
- Prepare reports for weekly, quarterly and yearly reviews.
- Process new hires and onboarding of new employees and termination; review accuracy and completeness of the information received and investigate/follow up on any anomalies and discrepancies.
- Create detailed employee cost budgets for the next calendar year. Helping in creating business cases for proposed new positions and transitions from contract or independent contractors to permanent employees.
- Performing cost analysis for the transitions and new proposed positions for the budget purposes.
- Assist in ensuring accurate tracking of vacation and sick day balances.
- Processing and approving the monthly invoices from the various benefits providers and ensuring the payment from Accounts Payables.
- Process the General Ledger Reports for the finance team and perform payroll account reconciliation.
- Respond and fulfil requests for employment verifications, Service Canada requests, WCB and wage garnishment requests.
- Administers group benefit plans ensuring accurate enrollment, changes and terminations of participants, and accurate payroll deductions.
- Administer a defined benefit pension plan for permanent employees.
- Answering employee questions about benefit programs and resolving employee issues with benefit providers
- Issues Record of Employment forms in a timely manner to comply with EI regulations.
- Maintain employee confidence and protect payroll operations by keeping information confidential.
Payroll Administrator - Sleep Country (Richmond BC) - Richmond, BC
(2021-02 - 2023-02)
- Administering the accurate and timely processing of internal payroll for BC and AB and ON employees.
- Communicate and manage the external payroll with different payroll providers.
- Prepare reports for weekly, quarterly, and yearly reviews.
- Process new hires and onboarding of new employees and termination; review accuracy and completeness of the information received and investigate/follow up on any anomalies and discrepancies.
- Perform month-end functions including journal entries and payroll account reconciliation.
- Assist in ensuring accurate tracking of vacation and sick day balances.
- Resolve payroll discrepancies by collecting and analyzing information and interacting with various departments, managers, and employees.
- Respond and fulfil requests for employment verifications, Service Canada requests, WCB and wage garnishment requests.
- Perform quarterly & year-end audits including file.
- Administers group benefit plans ensuring accurate enrollment, changes and terminations of participants, and accurate payroll deductions.
- Answering employee questions about benefit programs and resolving employee issues with benefit providers
- Issues Record of Employment forms in a timely manner to comply with EI regulations.
Education
Bachelor's - business administration - British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)

