Colleague Payroll Manager

The Colleague Payroll Manager is responsible for leading a team that prepares, documents, and processes all payroll transactions for employees, including but not limited to regular, incentive/commission, equity and bonus pay. Ensures compliance with company policy and all federal, state and provincial payroll employment/tax laws, rules and regulations. Additionally, the successful candidate will have strong customer service and team orientation with an ability to work in a fast-changing environment with various business units.

• Supervises employees, monitors and assigns team workload, and ensures a high-quality work product.
• Mentors, coaches, and develops employees, fosters an environment that promotes teamwork, and ensures the team is staffed appropriately to meet business needs.
• Lead and participate in the accurate and timely processing of payroll for colleagues of Canada for multiple Adecco Group brands.
• Ensures SLA’s are met, and high level of customer service is delivered. Timely field questions from colleagues on paycheck inquiries.
• Continually evaluates and streamlines payroll workflow, processes, and procedures; provides recommendations to senior management to address business needs.
• Ensures appropriate payroll controls and back-up systems are in place. Assists in internal and external audits.
• Oversee the preparation of accurate and timely payroll reports and 100% accurate payrolls.
• Works closely with corporate payroll tax, local HRIS, Canada HRBPs and finance teams.
• Develops and ensures adherence to related policies and procedures.
• Evaluates payroll systems to define requirements and manage testing of future system enhancements; ensuring systems comply with current and future business and legal requirements.
• Responds to inquiries from and provides information to field management and employees regarding payroll and related tax procedures; ensures that payroll information is provided to internal and external auditors as requested.
• Provides information on pay-related expenses, liabilities, general ledger interfaces and bank reconciliations to business partners.
• Collaborate with the Payroll Tax Department to interpret changes in tax laws and determine their impact; lead and participate in quarterly tax update testing.
• Stays abreast of related wage and hour laws, rules and regulations, as well as with trends, best practices, and tools in payroll administration, shares knowledge with payroll team.
• Has complete understanding of Canada vacation and stat holiday pay regulations and ensures compliance.
• Ensures the accuracy and integrity of all data transferred from cross-functional teams and integrated systems into the payroll platform and collaborates promptly with relevant stakeholders to investigate and resolve any discrepancies.
• Ensures accurate and timely submission with year-end activities relating to T4 and RL-1 tax forms.
• Ensure timely and accurate submission of any record of employment filings (ROE).
• Participates and/or leads special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION & JOB REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business or a related field with a minimum of seven (7) years of hands-on payroll experience, with a minimum of two (2) years in a supervisory capacity; or equivalent combination of post high school education and experience.

Payroll Compliance Partner (PCP) or Payroll Leadership Professional (PLP) designation highly preferred.

COMPETENCIES

• Expert knowledge Canada multi-province payroll requirements.
• Skilled in communicating effectively verbally and in writing.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.
• Ability to demonstrate high level customer service skills to various levels of employees and management.
• Ability to perform accurately in a detail-oriented environment.
• Ability to simultaneously manage multiple projects that vary in nature and scope.
• Ability to assess problems and develop/recommend creative solutions that meet business needs.
• Ability to effectively mentor, coach, train, and/or supervise employees.
• Ability to prioritize, organize, and perform multiple work assignments simultaneously while meeting assigned deadlines.
• Ability to show initiative and sound judgment when working independently or in a team environment.
• Knowledge of and the ability to utilize automated Human Capital Management (HCM) and payroll systems. Ideal candidate will have PeopleSoft 9.2 payroll experience.
• Ability to lead system upgrades, integrations, or implementations; including the documentation of requirements, training, and testing.
• Knowledge of the principles, best practices, and standards of payroll administration, including related laws, rules, and regulations.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office products, including Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Expert knowledge required in Microsoft Excel with ability to do VLOOKUP’s, pivot tables, etc.
• Knowledge of basic accounting principles.
• Knowledge of and ability to create queries.

It’s an exciting time to be part of our team. We’re proud to be a global thought-leader and care about doing the best job we can to ensure better futures for everyone. We do this by building our Future@Work strategy as a united team of 30,000+ colleagues with a collective spirit working in over 60 countries globally.

You’ll have the opportunity to grow across a variety of interesting jobs and careers over our extensive portfolio of global brands. We empower our colleagues to work in the smartest, most efficient ways to achieve total balance between the demands of their jobs and their lives. That’s why we give you the autonomy and support you need to work in the way that makes you most productive, agile, confident and insightful.

Putting people first, pioneering with a collective spirit and always advancing with a growth mindset - that’s what we stand for at the Adecco Group. Here, we are all individuals with a unique perspective on the world we live in. That’s what makes us stronger. Whoever you are and whatever your background, you can be yourself. So, we aim to build on the attributes that make you, you. We offer a range of world-class resources for upskilling and development, satisfying your curiosity while sharing skills, knowledge and expertise to grow together.

Do you want to make an impact where it matters most? Apply NOW!

We believe that having an understanding of the hiring process helps you to prepare, feel, and be at your best. As a global, multi-brand organisation with many different roles, our application process can vary. 

On our career site, you will find some of the key steps you can expect to guide you along the way.

As one of the world’s largest employers we believe in talent, not labels, and focus on the diverse and unique skills our people bring. We seek to foster a culture of belonging and purpose, an environment where everyone can thrive and feel engaged, and where difference is respected and valued. Our commitment to equity, equal opportunity, inclusion, and diversity is part of our broader commitment to respecting fundamental human rights across our value chain. The Adecco Group is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Posting date: 16-02-2026