Payroll Specialist - Ottawa, Canada - Kinaxis Inc.

Kinaxis Inc.

Verified Company

Ottawa, Canada

4 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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About Kinaxis:

About Kinaxis:

Elevate your career journey by embracing a new challenge with Kinaxis.

We are experts in tech, but it's really our people who give us passion to always seek ways to do things better.

As such, we're serious about your career growth and professional development, because _People matter _at Kinaxis.

In 1984, we started out as a team of three engineers.

Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, with a brand-new HQ based in Kanata North in Ottawa.

As one of Canada's Top Employers, we are proud to work with our customers and employees towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains today.

At Kinaxis, we power the world's supply chains to help preserve the planet's resources and enrich the human experience.

As a global leader in end-to-end supply chain management, we enable supply chain excellence for all industries, with more than 40,000 users in over 100 countries.

We are expanding our team as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.

About the team:

Location
This is a hybrid position.

You can work from home 2 days per week, and would be expected to be in the Ottawa office 3 days per week.

About the team:

Reporting to the Lead, Payroll, this role is responsible for handling all aspects of payroll processing for our global payroll, benefits and compliance in a fast-growing business.

This role will ensure that payroll transactions are well documented, executed appropriately and completed in a timely manner, and assist in developing and building cost-effective and efficient payroll processes.

This will include month end closure responsibilities related to payroll activities.

This is a very analytically focused role and is a great opportunity for someone experienced with multinational payroll to join a dynamic team.

About the role:

What you will do:

Responsible for the full cycle preparation and maintenance of the monthly payroll for our Global Entities in Europe and Asia.
Working with crossfunctional stakeholders to ensure benefits and remittances are delivered.
Respond timely to all payroll and related queries.
Prepare and complete payroll related journal entries and month end close procedures and reconciliations.
Process withholdings and complete monthly payroll reconciliations and annual reporting
Prepare reconciliations, payments, and payroll changes relating to various types of leaves and terminations.
Compile and prepare monthly, and annual payroll related reports and remittances after each pay run, and as needed.
Work closely with Human Resources to facilitate and ensure accurate data entry of benefit, employee data, pay and other payroll changes into the payroll system.
Participate & support HR new programs/initiatives and work on changes impacting payroll.
Support monthend closing procedures and regulatory and financial audit requirements.
Implement new benefit and pay element items as required.
Continuously evaluate, suggest, and implement improvements to payroll processes

What we are looking for:

Completed or working towards Payroll Compliance Professional (PCP) Certification
5+ years payroll and benefits administration for a multicountry environment.
General ledger experience and a solid understanding of accounting concepts.
Experience in general accounting and month end close procedures.
Proficiency with Excel
Excellent written, interpersonal, and verbal communication skills and team player
Ability to multitask and work in a fastpaced and demanding global environment with an ability to prioritize.
Highly discreet when dealing with sensitive employee payroll and benefit matters.
Organized, efficient, with the ability to handle multiple tasks.

Full-time #Associate #LI-Remote #LI-KH1

Why join Kinaxis?:

Why join Kinaxis?:

Work With Impact:
Our platform directly helps companies power the world's supply chains.

We see the results of what we do out in the world every day—when we see store shelves stocked, when medications are available for our loved ones, and so much more.

Work with Fortune 500 Brands:

Companies across industries trust us to help them take control of their integrated business planning and digital supply chain.

Some of our customers include Lockheed Martin, Yamaha, P&G, Honda, and more.

Social Responsibility at Kinaxis:

Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee weighs in on hiring practices, talent assessment training materials, and mandatory training on unconscious bias and inclusion fundamentals.

Sustainability is key to what we do and we're committed to net-zero operations strategy for the long term. We are involved in our communities and support causes where we can make the most impact.

People matter_ at Kinaxis and these are some of the perks and benefits we created for our team:
Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company-wide day off on