Payroll Coordinator

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Wealthsimple is on a mission to help everyone achieve financial freedom by reimagining what it means to manage your money. Using smart technology, we take financial services that are often confusing, opaque and expensive and make them transparent and low-cost for everyone. We’re the largest fintech company in Canada, with over 3 million users who trust us with more than $20 billion in assets.

Our teams ship often and make an impact with groundbreaking ideas. We're looking for talented people who keep it simple and value collaboration and humility as we continue to create inclusive and high-performing teams where people can be inspired to do their best work.

About the Role 

Reporting to the Payroll & Benefits Manager and working closely with our finance team & people partners, the Payroll Coordinator will provide transactional support for the Payroll Team processing multi-location payrolls (including Quebec and the US). This is an opportunity to help build strong and scalable processes, practices and workflows to ensure smooth, compliant, and timely administration of our payroll.

In this role you will have the opportunity to:

• Assist with the accurate and timely end to end processing and auditing of payroll operations including onboarding and enrolment, status changes, leave management (pregnancy, parental, and disability), and offboarding.

• Support year-end payroll activities including balancing payroll data, tax account reconciliation, reporting, and issuing various tax forms.

• Provide advice on routine payroll transactions, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation.

• Answer general payroll inquiries from employees.

• Work in collaboration with our People Operations Generalist to optimize workflows and processes to smooth the information flow and increase data accuracy in our HRIS (Workday).

• Develop strong relationships with our payroll providers to quickly troubleshoot issues, including amending ROE’s, special pay runs, and other time sensitive transactions.

• Respond to any CRA or Service Canada inquiries regarding ROE reason codes and requests for information.

• Assist with administration of our Group Retirement Savings Plan (GRSP) and 401k program.

Skills You Bring

• ​​Has a payroll certification (PCP or PLP), currently pursuing or willing to obtain.

• Has 1+ years of experience processing payroll. 

• Has experience in both multi-province (including Quebec) and US payroll practices and relevant legislation.

• Has experience in Workday (preferred).

• Has sharp attention to detail.

• Takes initiative - strong personal accountability for high quality work, actively finds opportunities for improvement

• Has strong time management skills, adhering to dates and deadlines ensuring completion.

• Has strong analytical and problem solving skills.

• Has excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Why Wealthsimple?

🤑 Competitive Salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance

📈 Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple Work

🌴 20 vacation days per year and unlimited sick and mental health days

📚 Up to $1500 per year towards wellness and professional development budgets respectively 

🛫 90 days away program: Employees can work internationally in eligible countries for up to 90 days per calendar year 

🌎 A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resource Groups (ie. Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)

💖 Company-wide wellness days off scheduled throughout the year

We’re a remote-first team, with over 1000 employees coast to coast in North America. Be a part of our Canadian success story and help shape the financial future of millions — join us!

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DEI Statement

At Wealthsimple, we are building products for a diverse world and we need a diverse team to do that successfully. We strongly encourage applications from everyone regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. 

Accessibility Statement

Wealthsimple provides an accessible candidate experience. If you need any accommodations or adjustments throughout the interview process and beyond, please let us know, and we will work with you to provide the necessary support and make reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation. We are continuously working to improve our accessibility practices and welcome any feedback or suggestions on how we can better accommodate candidates with accessibility needs.