DNEG - Senior Manager - Payroll - North America

Key Responsibilities :

• Oversee the completion of the full payroll cycle processing accurately, on-time and in compliance with legislation of all locations of North America.
• Hands-on in all payroll submission tasks such as process new hires, timesheet, payroll changes.
• Review and approve bi-weekly payroll transmissions, by ensuring payroll is balanced and all payroll tax accounts are reconciled.
• Prepare and reconcile all year-end payroll activities and accounts in required deadlines.
• Oversee all aspects of payroll reporting and payroll tax remittances (bi-weekly, quarterly, and annually).
• Establishing payroll priorities, setting goals, and managing a variety of highly competing deadlines within tight time constraints.
• Preparing and delivering clear and concise communications to a wide range of teams (Accounting, HR, Production) to ensure accurate and timely flow of information.
• Collaborate with management teams to ensure clear procedures for timekeeping and approvals.
• Liase with Finance, internal departments, external consultants, government agencies, auditors, and other stakeholders to ensure policy, compliance and timely transmission of payment related data have been conducted.
• Identify and suggest solutions for problematic situations, provide guidance on confidential and sensitive topics with employees and management.
• Analyses reports to ensure the integrity of balances of payroll accounts, including reconciliations, government and other remittances, expenses, as well as internal and external audit compliance and reviews.
• Maintains payroll systems including testing and implementation to ensure accurate functionality.
• Ensure proper payroll records are maintained and file for easy access.
• Maintaining data quality thorough communicating the understanding of the impact of data flowing to related units and integration points.
• Ensure standardization of payroll documentation and procedures to streamline the payroll processing, balancing, and validation process that is uniform across all North America locations.
• Evaluate existing payroll processes and work towards improvements through collaboration.
• Drives process improvements to reduce costs, mitigate risks, and increase efficiencies.
• Conducting internal audit of operational efficiencies and internal controls for payroll department.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities Required :

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