Canadian Payroll Implementation Specialist

Job description

Job Requirements · Document current Canadian payroll processes, pay groups, calendars, earnings, deductions, benefits, balances and interfaces. · Validate federal and applicable provincial payroll requirements with internal owners and the implementation partner, including Quebec requirements where relevant. · Review proposed Dayforce payroll configuration and identify gaps affecting taxes, statutory deductions, pension, union rules, remittances and employee pay. · Support source data mapping and cleansing; reconcile converted employee payroll data, opening balances and year-to-date values. Work with Lavasource on conversion defects. · Develop Canadian payroll test cases for regular and off-cycle pay, overtime, retroactive changes, leave, terminations and year-end reporting. · Execute and reconcile payroll parallel runs. Investigate gross-to-net and balance differences, document causes and verify corrections. · Validate payroll outputs, bank files, remittance information, GL results and relevant third-party interfaces with accountable teams. · Prepare payroll cutover checks, reconciliation evidence and operating instructions; support initial production runs and knowledge transfer.