Payroll Analyst III (Canadian Payroll Processing)
About the role
Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced Payroll Analyst to manage Canadian payroll operations for a multi-entity employee population across multiple provinces. This role will be responsible for full-cycle payroll processing, compliance, tax reporting, and payroll-related benefit administration. The ideal candidate will have strong technical expertise, advanced Excel skills, and hands-on experience with Dayforce.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and process full-cycle Canadian payroll for approximately 500 employees across multiple legal entities and provinces.
- Lead payroll activities including auditing, reconciliation, adjustments, ROEs, year-end support, and compliance checks.
- Ensure accurate processing of employee changes such as new hires, terminations, promotions, and compensation updates.
- Review, validate, and approve payroll outputs to ensure accuracy and compliance with provincial and federal regulations.
- Troubleshoot Dayforce issues and collaborate with internal teams or vendor support to resolve system-related challenges.
- Track RRSP contributions and benefit calculations, ensuring accurate submissions and payments.
- Respond to payroll-related inquiries in a timely and professional manner.
- Provide guidance to HR, Finance, and operational teams on payroll policies, best practices, and Dayforce functionality.
- Maintain detailed documentation, streamline payroll processes, and ensure strong internal controls.
- Deliver timely reporting, including payroll summaries, variance analyses, and audit requests.
- Support year-end activities including T4s, reconciliations, and government filings.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Experience: Minimum 5+ years of Canadian payroll experience, managing end-to-end payroll for large employee groups (500+), across multiple provinces.
- Technical Skills: Advanced proficiency in Excel (VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, Macros).
- Strong knowledge of Canadian payroll legislation and tax compliance.
- Excellent attention to detail, organizational skills, and ability to meet deadlines.
Preferred Skills & Qualifications
- System Expertise: Strong Dayforce experience – hands-on, full-cycle payroll processing
- Certification: PCP (Payroll Compliance Practitioner) designation is a strong asset.
- US payroll experience
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
- Effective communication skills for interacting with employees and cross-functional teams.
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About Regal Rexnord
Regal Rexnord is a publicly held global industrial manufacturer with 30,000 associates around the world who help create a better tomorrow by providing sustainable solutions that power, transmit and control motion. The Company’s electric motors and air moving subsystems provide the power to create motion. A portfolio of highly engineered power transmission components and subsystems efficiently transmits motion to power industrial applications. The Company’s automation offering, comprised of controls, actuators, drives, and precision motors, controls motion in applications ranging from factory automation to precision control in surgical tools.
The Company’s end markets benefit from meaningful secular demand tailwinds, and include factory automation, food & beverage, aerospace, medical, data center, warehouse, alternative energy, residential and commercial buildings, general industrial, construction, metals and mining, and agriculture.
Regal Rexnord is comprised of three operating segments: Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions, and Automation & Motion Control. Regal Rexnord has offices and manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide. For more information, including a copy of our Sustainability Report, visit RegalRexnord.com.
About Regal Rexnord
All 30k+ associates at Regal Rexnord have a shared purpose: Create a better tomorrow with sustainable solutions that power, transmit, and control motion. We are a leading, global manufacturer of airflow, motion control, power transmission, and power generation solutions used in commercial, industrial and residential settings.
You may not know it, but Regal Rexnord impacts your life every day. Our products enable the fans in HVAC systems that keep us comfortable; the power source that keeps smart buildings running; the agricultural and food service equipment that keeps us fed; and the conveyor systems that keep e-commerce flowing. Regal Rexnord is comprised of four operating segments: Automation & Motion Control, Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions and Industrial Systems. Regal Rexnord is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and has manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide. For more information, visit RegalRexnord.com.
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Payroll Analyst III (Canadian Payroll Processing)
About the role
Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced Payroll Analyst to manage Canadian payroll operations for a multi-entity employee population across multiple provinces. This role will be responsible for full-cycle payroll processing, compliance, tax reporting, and payroll-related benefit administration. The ideal candidate will have strong technical expertise, advanced Excel skills, and hands-on experience with Dayforce.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and process full-cycle Canadian payroll for approximately 500 employees across multiple legal entities and provinces.
- Lead payroll activities including auditing, reconciliation, adjustments, ROEs, year-end support, and compliance checks.
- Ensure accurate processing of employee changes such as new hires, terminations, promotions, and compensation updates.
- Review, validate, and approve payroll outputs to ensure accuracy and compliance with provincial and federal regulations.
- Troubleshoot Dayforce issues and collaborate with internal teams or vendor support to resolve system-related challenges.
- Track RRSP contributions and benefit calculations, ensuring accurate submissions and payments.
- Respond to payroll-related inquiries in a timely and professional manner.
- Provide guidance to HR, Finance, and operational teams on payroll policies, best practices, and Dayforce functionality.
- Maintain detailed documentation, streamline payroll processes, and ensure strong internal controls.
- Deliver timely reporting, including payroll summaries, variance analyses, and audit requests.
- Support year-end activities including T4s, reconciliations, and government filings.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Experience: Minimum 5+ years of Canadian payroll experience, managing end-to-end payroll for large employee groups (500+), across multiple provinces.
- Technical Skills: Advanced proficiency in Excel (VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, Macros).
- Strong knowledge of Canadian payroll legislation and tax compliance.
- Excellent attention to detail, organizational skills, and ability to meet deadlines.
Preferred Skills & Qualifications
- System Expertise: Strong Dayforce experience – hands-on, full-cycle payroll processing
- Certification: PCP (Payroll Compliance Practitioner) designation is a strong asset.
- US payroll experience
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
- Effective communication skills for interacting with employees and cross-functional teams.
#Li-CB5
About Regal Rexnord
Regal Rexnord is a publicly held global industrial manufacturer with 30,000 associates around the world who help create a better tomorrow by providing sustainable solutions that power, transmit and control motion. The Company’s electric motors and air moving subsystems provide the power to create motion. A portfolio of highly engineered power transmission components and subsystems efficiently transmits motion to power industrial applications. The Company’s automation offering, comprised of controls, actuators, drives, and precision motors, controls motion in applications ranging from factory automation to precision control in surgical tools.
The Company’s end markets benefit from meaningful secular demand tailwinds, and include factory automation, food & beverage, aerospace, medical, data center, warehouse, alternative energy, residential and commercial buildings, general industrial, construction, metals and mining, and agriculture.
Regal Rexnord is comprised of three operating segments: Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions, and Automation & Motion Control. Regal Rexnord has offices and manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide. For more information, including a copy of our Sustainability Report, visit RegalRexnord.com.
About Regal Rexnord
All 30k+ associates at Regal Rexnord have a shared purpose: Create a better tomorrow with sustainable solutions that power, transmit, and control motion. We are a leading, global manufacturer of airflow, motion control, power transmission, and power generation solutions used in commercial, industrial and residential settings.
You may not know it, but Regal Rexnord impacts your life every day. Our products enable the fans in HVAC systems that keep us comfortable; the power source that keeps smart buildings running; the agricultural and food service equipment that keeps us fed; and the conveyor systems that keep e-commerce flowing. Regal Rexnord is comprised of four operating segments: Automation & Motion Control, Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions and Industrial Systems. Regal Rexnord is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and has manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide. For more information, visit RegalRexnord.com.