Payroll Manager
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An NPI Certified Payroll Leader with a strong accounting background. I’m a team player with a direct communication style who thrives on learning through understanding, listening, and overcoming adversity. I enjoy collaborating with people and teams to solve tough challenges and create sustainable, win-win solutions that result in long-term efficiencies. As a resilient and hardworking leader, I lead by example and am not afraid to question the status quo. I understand the importance of being a change catalyst and can be entrusted with high integrity and accountability. I enjoy data, analytics and work towards building accurate reporting, creativity towards process improvements and yet believe in standard operational processes to ensure quality and consistency in every task the work entails.
Leadership Role in Total Rewards Team, Trans Mountain Canada Inc.
August 2023 - Present: Team Lead Payroll
June 2022 - August 2023: Team Lead Payroll and HR Operations
Recent restructure is a result of company's growth by 200% and allows me to focus on Payroll, Audit Controls,
Compliance, and Payroll Data Integrity while guiding and supporting a team of payroll analysts.
Leadership & Team Management: Lead a team of payroll analysts responsible for day-to-day payroll processing and acted as the approver of all payrolls.
Compliance & Policy Implementation: Ensure compliance with HR policies, multiple negotiation agreements,
and employment standards.
Financial Oversight: Reviewe and approve roughly $150 million in annual compensation for Canadian, US, and retiree payrolls.
Budget & Forecasting: Participate in the preparation of budget and forecast for salaries, wages, taxable benefits,
WCB, federal and provincial statutory remittances.
Audit & Data Integrity: Ensured all payroll and HR data audit controls were met and liaised with government,
internal and external auditors.
Process Improvement: Streamlined employee onboarding and offboarding processes with IT, Finance, Safety,
and facilities using various system integrations and ServiceNow workflows.
Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborated with HR teams on offer letter reviews, service award program, benefits administration, compensation policies, and employee programs.
Financial Reconciliation: Reconciled all payroll general ledger accounts and ensured timely payment of monthly and quarterly dues to CRA accounts, WCB, United Way, and annual preparation and balancing of T4s.
System Enhancements: Led system updates, enhancements, and integrations with other HR or finance systems.
Communication & Training: Prepared communication materials, training sessions, and presentations to assist the workforce in understanding pay policies, work rules, timesheets, modified schedules, and payroll calendars.
Leadership Development: Enhanced leadership skills through workshops such as Foundations of Leadership
(Painted Fire), Situational Leadership, Feedback with Impact Training (Erin Thorpe), Leading Beyond Any Title
(SAIT), and LinkedIn Learning.
January 2020 - May 2022: Payroll & Compensation Analyst, Total Rewards, Trans Mountain Canada Inc.
January 2015- December 2019 : Payroll Analyst at Trans Mountain Canada former Kinder Morgan
Maintained job data base and positions in ROCS and D365 for employee onboarding to HR Information and
Payroll Systems.
Conducted market surveys for job positioning, ensuring internal equity and competitiveness.
Prepared and supported presentations for salary increase budgets aligned with compensation philosophy and market trends, and participated in salary budget and vacancy forecasting.
Administered short-term and long-term pay programs, linking rewards to performance.
Trained and mentored Payroll and HR Operations team members, ensuring compliance with payroll controls and audits.
Full cycle payroll administration including time and attendance, pay rocessing, GL accounting, and year-end tasks.for Canadian employees and Retirees using ADP Workforce Now.
Collaborated with the Benefits team to integrate programs and remittances with payroll.
Maintained data for new hires, terminations, payroll changes, final pay calculations, and ROEs.
Ensured timely remittances for savings plans, benefits, United Way, statutory deductions, garnishments, and
WCB premiums.
Administered ADP Workforce Now Time & Attendance module, maintained and assigned schedules, accruals,
supervisor profiles, time off balances, vacation liability, and union work rules.
Trained new hires and supervisors on Time and Attendance systems, Comp XL, and Employee self-service.
Responded to internal and external inquiries regarding payroll, compensation, and timekeeping and manage payroll mailbox.
Managed the company-wide United Way Campaign, auto taxable benefit reporting, and recociled CRA and WCB for year-end processing.
Coordinated US biweekly payroll for Washington State employees in coordination with GNA partners (PEO)
Canadian Payroll Association: Certified Payroll Manager (CPM) 2016; Payroll Compliance Practitioner (PCP)
2013
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology- SAIT: Accelerated Accounting Certificate 2011
Indira Gandhi National Open University- Bachelor in Hospitality and Tourism 2000
