Payroll Specialist

Job Title: Payroll Specialist

Location: Cambridge, ON | On-site

Job Type: Full-time

Compensation: $75,000-$90,000.00/year

Benefits: RRSP, health/dental/vision package, reimbursement for tuition and professional dues, paid vacation, personal days, and sick days.

Get To Know Us

Eclipse Automation delivers cutting-edge custom automated manufacturing solutions across multiple industries. We combine advanced automation expertise with digital innovation to create smart, efficient, and sustainable manufacturing systems. Our global network includes facilities in Canada, the United States and Hungary ensuring regional expertise and global strength.

The Position

The Payroll Administrator will accurately process the biweekly payroll on time, and in accordance with established practices and company policy. The incumbent will ensure compliance is maintained with all required legislation and ensure that reported results comply with generally accepted accounting principles, while delivering the Eclipse Vision and the Eclipse Entrepreneurial Culture.

What You’ll Be Doing

Payroll Processing

• Administer bi-weekly Canadian and US payroll for approximately 600 employees using Ceridian Dayforce.
• Monitor timesheet accuracy and completeness, follow up with employees and managers in a timely manner for corrections.
• Calculate and verify accuracy of irregular earnings and deductions in Dayforce
• Reconcile all payroll inputs to appropriate source information
• Review payroll outputs for accuracy, investigate discrepancies and make appropriate corrections
• Process garnishments
• Calculate and process taxable benefits, statutory holiday pay, shift premium, on call, employee tool loans
• Process Records of Employment
• Create the payroll journal entry and enter in Sage 50
• Calculate and remit WSIB premiums
  
  

Month End/Year End

• Calculate and remit monthly WSIB premiums
• Process benefit invoices and reconcile employee monthly premiums to pay period deductions
• Understand pension adjustment calculations and review accuracy on T4s
• Administer year end payroll forms such as T4s and T2200s
• Perform annual reconciliations for EHT and WSIB
• Review PIER report and process corrections as required
• Review Dayforce configuration (pay calendars, statutory holidays, earnings and deductions)
• Update benefit plans costs in Dayforce
• Review Dayforce entitlement rollovers (vacation), and process annual vacation payouts
• Attend NPI’s year end payroll seminar. Communicate payroll legislation changes with Director of Finance.
  
  

What We’re Looking For

• Diploma in Business Administration, Accounting or Bookkeeping
• PCP Certification
• 5 years of payroll experience required
• Ceridian Dayforce
• Sage 50 Accounting Software
• Microsoft Excel (formulas: v-lookups, sumifs)
  
  

What We Offer

• Reimbursement for tuition and professional dues
• 3 weeks of vacation and 3 paid personal days (to start)
• RRSP matching program
• Free snack program
  
  

Why Join Us

Here at Eclipse Automation, creation and innovation are at our core, and our culture reflects that. Fast-paced and continuously fostering growth, we encourage the entrepreneurial spirit that our teams embody, and leverage each of their strengths to do better for our people, our clients, and our communities.

Our teams are made up of innovators, thinkers, and doers, with the know-how and expertise to exceed expectations, and the relentless spirit to create and reinvent. Our people are what enable us to live up to our name - to eclipse all others, inspiring and creating outcomes that change the world.

Eclipse Automation is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive work environment. It is our policy to recruit and select applicants solely on the basis of their qualifications. We are an equal opportunity employer that hires talent regardless of age, race, creed, colour, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or any other status or condition protected by applicable law.

At Eclipse Automation, we believe in the power of human connection. We do not use AI in our hiring process; every application is personally reviewed by a member of our team to ensure each candidate receives careful consideration.

This publicly advertised job posting is for an existing vacancy. We are seeking a qualified candidate to join our team and assume the responsibilities of this role.

Eclipse Automation encourages applications from all qualified candidates. Those in need of accommodation at any stage of the recruitment process should notify eca_hresources@eclipseautomation.com. Any information received that relates to accommodation needs of a candidate will be addressed in a confidential manner.