Explore Payroll Career Opportunities with Us
Are you a payroll professional in British Columbia looking for your next career move?
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Please note: This is a general intake posting designed to connect with talented payroll candidates at all experience levels—from operational specialists to strategic consultants. Whether you are actively seeking a new role today, open to contract work, or exploring future permanent opportunities, submitting your profile allows our talent team to review your qualifications against our current immediate openings as well as upcoming opportunities launching this week.
Advantages
We offer a wide variety of working structures depending on client and role needs:
Workplace Types: On-site (Greater Vancouver area), Hybrid (2–3 days in-office), and Flexible/Remote arrangements across BC.
Employment Types: Permanent full-time, temporary/contract (flexible durations), and part-time/reduced-hour senior advisory roles.
Salary Ranges: Competitive compensation packages ranging from $65,000 to $120,000+ per year (or equivalent hourly contract rates), backed by comprehensive benefits and professional development support.
Responsibilities
We partner with dynamic organizations across a range of industries—including hospitality, non-profit, retail, and corporate sectors—to place top-tier payroll talent. We regularly recruit for roles across three primary tiers:
Qualifications
1. Junior to Mid-Level Specialists (Payroll & Benefits Administrators)
Ideal Experience: 2 to 4 years of hands-on, high-volume payroll experience (processing for 300+ employees).
Core Focus: End-to-end multi-state US or Canadian payroll processing, benefits coordination, data entry, and discrepancy tracking.
Key Skills: High Excel proficiency (vlookups, pivot tables), exposure to major HRIS platforms (Dayforce, ADP, or similar), and strong customer service for employee inquiries.
2. Senior Administrators & Payroll Leads
Ideal Experience: 5+ years of full-cycle payroll execution with end-to-end accountability.
Core Focus: Full-cycle operations, year-end balancing (T4/W2 generation), complex payroll accounting, remittances, journal entries, and system troubleshooting.
Key Skills: Active PCP (Payroll Compliance Professional) designation preferred, strong accounting/GL background, experience handling complex pay structures (unionized environments, tip processing, or multi-jurisdictional compliance), and back-end system configuration skills.
3. Strategic Payroll Consultants & Subject Matter Experts
Ideal Experience: 8 to 10+ years of senior multi-entity leadership or consulting experience.
Core Focus: Process optimization, audit compliance, SOP authoring, knowledge extraction, and major system implementations/upgrades.
Key Skills: CPM (Certified Payroll Manager) or senior PCP designation, expert-level system optimization (Dayforce, Vena GL mapping), high emotional intelligence, and change-management leadership.
Summary
If you have experience in Canadian or US payroll and want to be considered for active and upcoming roles, we want to hear from you!
Click Apply Now to submit your resume, or email me at erika.scorsoni@randstad.ca
Indicate your preferred employment type (Permanent, Contract, Hybrid, On-site) and current availability.
Our recruitment team will review your profile and reach out directly to discuss matched opportunities.
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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Explore Payroll Career Opportunities with Us
Are you a payroll professional in British Columbia looking for your next career move?
Please note: This is a general intake posting designed to connect with talented payroll candidates at all experience levels—from operational specialists to strategic consultants. Whether you are actively seeking a new role today, open to contract work, or exploring future permanent opportunities, submitting your profile allows our talent team to review your qualifications against our current immediate openings as well as upcoming opportunities launching this week.
Advantages
We offer a wide variety of working structures depending on client and role needs:
Workplace Types: On-site (Greater Vancouver area), Hybrid (2–3 days in-office), and Flexible/Remote arrangements across BC.
Employment Types: Permanent full-time, temporary/contract (flexible durations), and part-time/reduced-hour senior advisory roles.
Salary Ranges: Competitive compensation packages ranging from $65,000 to $120,000+ per year (or equivalent hourly contract rates), backed by comprehensive benefits and professional development support.
...
Responsibilities
We partner with dynamic organizations across a range of industries—including hospitality, non-profit, retail, and corporate sectors—to place top-tier payroll talent. We regularly recruit for roles across three primary tiers:
Qualifications
1. Junior to Mid-Level Specialists (Payroll & Benefits Administrators)
Ideal Experience: 2 to 4 years of hands-on, high-volume payroll experience (processing for 300+ employees).
Core Focus: End-to-end multi-state US or Canadian payroll processing, benefits coordination, data entry, and discrepancy tracking.
Key Skills: High Excel proficiency (vlookups, pivot tables), exposure to major HRIS platforms (Dayforce, ADP, or similar), and strong customer service for employee inquiries.
2. Senior Administrators & Payroll Leads
Ideal Experience: 5+ years of full-cycle payroll execution with end-to-end accountability.
Core Focus: Full-cycle operations, year-end balancing (T4/W2 generation), complex payroll accounting, remittances, journal entries, and system troubleshooting.
Key Skills: Active PCP (Payroll Compliance Professional) designation preferred, strong accounting/GL background, experience handling complex pay structures (unionized environments, tip processing, or multi-jurisdictional compliance), and back-end system configuration skills.
3. Strategic Payroll Consultants & Subject Matter Experts
Ideal Experience: 8 to 10+ years of senior multi-entity leadership or consulting experience.
Core Focus: Process optimization, audit compliance, SOP authoring, knowledge extraction, and major system implementations/upgrades.
Key Skills: CPM (Certified Payroll Manager) or senior PCP designation, expert-level system optimization (Dayforce, Vena GL mapping), high emotional intelligence, and change-management leadership.
Summary
If you have experience in Canadian or US payroll and want to be considered for active and upcoming roles, we want to hear from you!
Click Apply Now to submit your resume, or email me at erika.scorsoni@randstad.ca
Indicate your preferred employment type (Permanent, Contract, Hybrid, On-site) and current availability.
Our recruitment team will review your profile and reach out directly to discuss matched opportunities.
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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