Terms: Full time / Permanent
Salary: Commensurate with experience
Location: Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal| Hybrid Work Model
About The Role
Health Standards Organization (HSO) is looking for a Payroll and Benefits Administrator reporting to the Payroll & Benefits Lead - Financial Services. The Payroll and Benefits Administrator is responsible for managing the full cycle payroll, benefits and pension administration functions with accuracy in a timely manner, ensuring integrity of processes, confidentiality, and the appropriateness of data and systems for the enterprise.
The right candidate will be ambitious, detail-oriented, analytical, determined and ready to dive in and juggle the many competing priorities. You have an eye for numbers and will not shy away from juggling multiple priorities within a fast-paced environment.
Main Responsibilities
- Administer full cycle bi-weekly and monthly payrolls related functions including calculation validations, updates and verification of employee date and payments, and ROE productions.
- Administer payroll related year-end duties, including preparing T4s and Relevé 1.
- Administer corporate group benefits program for all members, ensuring accurate benefits deductions, record maintenance, and monthly remittances.
- Administer corporate pension plan for all members, including pension contribution calculations, record maintenance, and monthly remittances.
- Ensure compliance with the enterprise’s policies/processes/guidelines as well as government legislation.
- Provide accurate and timely information to employees and 3rd parties (e.g. CRA, Ministry of Finance, Revenu Quebec, external auditors, HOOPP and Canada Life).
- Collaborate with the Talent Management team in the administration of payroll and benefits as required.
Must Have Qualifications
- Payroll Compliance Professional (PCP) Designation.
- 3-5 years of experience in payroll, benefits and pension administration.
- Proficiency in payroll systems, Excel and benefits administration portals (e.g. Dayforce, Canada Life Group Net and HOOPP Insight).
- Excellent organizational, analytical and interpersonal skills with extremely strong attention to detail.
- Having accountability and taking ownership. We want to hear examples of times when you stepped up, took ownership, and ran with it, whether big or small, as a professional.
Desired Qualifications
- Are familiar with the health care environment and the role of best practices.
- Experience working with in Dayforce payroll systems
What You Can Expect
In Your First 30-90 Days:
- Complete our orientation program with other new hires to learn about HSO, our values of trust, inclusion, collaboration, innovation and learning, and our mission of quality improvement in healthcare and social services.
- Set your performance and learning objectives for the year in collaboration with your people manager.
- Meet regularly with your people manager to discuss your learning progression and alignment for your accountabilities.
- Take on assigned initiatives or projects for your role.
What We Can Offer To You
- Hybrid work model.
- Competitive compensation and benefits, including a defined benefit pension plan.
- Time off programs, including office closure during last week of December.
- Professional development support.
- A culture that measures and values psychological safety, inclusion and engagement.
Who We Are And What We Do
Health Standards Organization (HSO) and our affiliates Accreditation Canada (AC) and the Institute for Quality Management in Healthcare (IQMH) are global, not-for-profit, revenue generating organizations. Together, we develop standards and deliver assessment programs and quality improvement solutions that have been adopted in over 12,000 locations across five continents. Our people-centered programs and services have been setting the bar for quality across the health ecosystem for 65 years.
Join us toward a future that will lead to “Safer Care and A Healthier World.” Let’s follow a mission together, where we “empower and enable people around the world to continuously improve quality of care.”
HSO is committed to fostering a culture of inclusion, diversity, equity and access, where all employees feel respected and valued and have an equal opportunity to achieve success. We encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, people from diverse races, ethnicities and/or religions, persons with disabilities, people from gender diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities. Please let us know how we can support you throughout the recruiting process, including through the provision of accommodations on request.
We are also proud to have been named as one of the Top 100 National Capital Region’s Top Employers in 2022, 2023 and 2024.
We are equal opportunity employer and are committed to the principles of Employment Equity. We encourage qualified applications from all genders, including visible minorities, Indigenous Peoples, and persons with
disabilities. We thank all applicants for their interest; only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. To request accommodation, please email HR at HumanResources@healthstandards.org. For any queries related to recruitment please email at recruitment@healthstandards.org.
