Canadian Payroll Implementation Specialist

Job Requirements
· Document current Canadian payroll processes, pay groups, calendars, earnings, deductions, benefits, balances and interfaces.
· Validate federal and applicable provincial payroll requirements with internal owners and the implementation partner, including Quebec requirements where relevant.
· Review proposed Dayforce payroll configuration and identify gaps affecting taxes, statutory deductions, pension, union rules, remittances and employee pay.
· Support source data mapping and cleansing; reconcile converted employee payroll data, opening balances and year-to-date values. Work with Lavasource on conversion defects.
· Develop Canadian payroll test cases for regular and off-cycle pay, overtime, retroactive changes, leave, terminations and year-end reporting.
· Execute and reconcile payroll parallel runs. Investigate gross-to-net and balance differences, document causes and verify corrections.
· Validate payroll outputs, bank files, remittance information, GL results and relevant third-party interfaces with accountable teams.
· Prepare payroll cutover checks, reconciliation evidence and operating instructions; support initial production runs and knowledge transfer.