Payroll Specialist

Location

Brookfield Culture

Brookfield has a unique and dynamic culture.  We seek team members who have a long-term focus and whose values align with our Attributes of a Brookfield Leader:  Entrepreneurial, Collaborative and Disciplined.  Brookfield is committed to the development of our people through challenging work assignments and exposure to diverse businesses.

Job Description

Human Resources Services (HRS) is an internal function providing global operations and business support across Brookfield’s lines of business.

The Payroll Specialist (Analyst level) role is divided equally between customer service/relations management and technical expertise, responsible for the administration of payroll for Canadian and US employees. Reporting to the Payroll Manager, the Analyst will be responsible for receiving, assessing, and validating HR and employee changes, entering pay and tax changes, and addressing general inquiries related to pay and tax. The role also involves auditing and analyzing multi-province/state employee transactions for accuracy, timely processing, and compliance.

The Payroll Specialist will work closely with Human Resources and Accounting departments to ensure accuracy and timeliness when delivering and auditing pay.

Responsibilities

• Verifies payroll outputs for accuracy, sensibility and overall correctness and mitigates as required before loading into system production.

• Executes standard audit data verification process for all payroll data to ensure information is correct and maintained properly, at both the employee and employer level.

• Validates accuracy of employee/payroll/tax records including auditing and analyzing records for compliance with established employment, labor, compliance, and company standards.

• Prepares variance and validation reporting including balancing and controlling earnings and deduction totals, inspecting system output such as registers and standard reports, determining and correcting out-of-balance conditions.

• Creates and prepares general ledger entries for interface in collaboration with HRIS and Finance.

• Monitors and files tax reports and forms; responds to tax inquires; completes quarterly and year end balancing.

• Runs existing structured and ad hoc reports for validation purposes, for inclusion in financial statements and to fulfill requests by management, HR, and Finance.

• Prepares wires and funds Payroll and Benefits; monitors for transaction completion and mitigates any stopped workflows.

• Wage garnishment support, processing, and validation

• Supports Union population across the US which includes processing and validation of union invoicing.

• Other administrative duties as assigned.
   

Technical Skills

• Workday payroll knowledge

• Prior experience processing payroll in a multi-company, multi-jurisdiction environment

• Proven organizational and problem-solving skills.

• Previous analysis and audit experience

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment under tight deadlines

• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of MS Office applications, including excel (ex. functions, pivot tables, macros)

• System / database troubleshooting, utilization, and detail orientation to data integrity

• Payroll and time administration/timekeeping background including troubleshooting, compliance and reporting. 

• Experience producing payroll utilizing an HRIS system.  Workday experience would be an asset.

• Strong verbal and written communication

• Superior customer service skills

• Demonstrate good presentation skills.

Peer Management

• Effectively work with peers by leveraging differences in objectives and responsibilities

• Educates oneself on peers’ processes and directives

• Demonstrates a shared understanding of the overarching mandate the team is collectively seeking to accomplish while aligning priorities with built-in organization dependencies requiring teamwork.

• Reinforces team objectives through independent work, collaboration and communication

• Establishes an environment of mutual trust, respect and accountability

Service/Personal Skills

• Generates accurate and timely work-product based on criteria of assigned responsibilities

• Skillfully and promptly exhibits flexibility by working with Payroll Manager and available resources to adapt work to changing scenarios as required

• Demonstrates productive analytical thinking when it comes to solutioning

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Provides superior customer service consistent with Brookfield’s global delivery standards

• Exhibits consistent and diligent attention to and application of detail

• Exercises sound judgment including appropriate escalation to management

• Demonstrate superior self-organization skills with reference to day-to-day operational responsibilities and assignments

• Utilizes problem-solving skills in a deliberate and well-considered manner to identify and resolve issues

• Exercises conscious and practical control over the amount of time spent on specific activities

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment under tight deadlines

• Provides and administers processes to support a high degree of customer service and supports staff to deliver payroll and answer enquiries under that orientation

• Focuses on the client needs for desired outcomes

Experience

• 3+ years of relevant experience

• Payroll Compliance Practitioner (PCP) Certification preferred

• Bachelor's Degree (HR, Business Administration, or related field) required

New York Salary Range: $80,000 - $90,000

Brookfield is committed to maintaining a Positive Work Environment that is safe and respectful; our shared success depends on it.  Accordingly, we do not tolerate workplace discrimination, violence or harassment.