Manager, Payroll - Kitchener, Canada - Avidbots

Avidbots

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Kitchener, Canada

1 week ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

About Avidbots:

At Avidbots, we believe in solving real world problems with autonomous robotics solutions. Our current product, Neo, is a fully autonomous floor scrubbing robot deployed and trusted by the world's leading facilities and building services companies
- and we aren't stopping there We are dedicated to continuously innovate, both on our current product and developing new solutions. Headquartered in Kitchener, ON, Canada and Chicago USA, Avidbots is a rapidly growing technology company, recognized as a Great Place to Work and one of Deloitte's Fast 500. Take a look at what Neo can do

About this role:

The Manager of Payroll is responsible for leading payroll operations for Avidbots across Canada, the US and other global entities.

Reporting to the Corporate Controller, this person will oversee accounting functions for the payroll, incentive compensation and benefits activities, including calculation, funding, compliance and related journal entry and balance sheet reconciliations.

As a true business partner to the organization, you will lead with a can-do attitude developing collaborative relationships across the Company and focusing on continued improvement and building of scalable processes and system and workflow automation.

How you will make a difference:

Manage the payroll accounting process for all Avidbots entities, ensuring accuracy and timeliness and establishing and evolving payroll best practices as business scales.
Manage and create monthly payroll journal entries. Review and reconcile payroll and incentive compensation accounting data to ensure completeness and accuracy.
Support internal and external audits by performing process walkthroughs, providing audit deliverables and analyses.
Ensure proper taxation and withholding of all statutory withholdings and voluntary deductions for all countries and locations, oversee compliance and ensure delivery of regular payroll and associated filings as required by local laws.
Provide daytoday support and issue resolution related to payroll, incentive compensation, and system inquiries, proactively communicating with impacted employees, managers and the People Team.
Align tightly with the People Team to build and execute scalable processes to support the onboarding, change, and offboarding processes and overall payroll, benefits and incentive compensation strategy.

Key requirements and experience:

Bachelor's Degree in Business or Accounting
7+ years of relevant experience, including 4+ years of supervisory or management experience in payroll processing function
Strong technical background in payroll and ability to own US and Canadian payroll function with mínimal guidance or direction
Subject matter expertise and strong working knowledge of payroll best practices, guidelines and compliance
Expert experience with Ceridian and/or other leading HRIS & Payroll systems, experience in systems integration and conversion a plus
Handson experience with Epicor ERP preferred
Strong analytical and financial reporting and MS Excel skills
Experience with documentation of business process and gathering of business requirements
Sophisticated depth of communication, analytical, project management and time management skills

Avidbots is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse workforce. As a multicultural organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce.

We offer a professional working environment and culture and believe that work/ life balance is critical to ensure the happiness/well-being of our people.

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