Senior Manager, Payroll
Job Summary
Job Description
Kabam seeks a Senior Manager, Payroll to lead its payroll team across Canadian and US studios. Responsibilities include managing payroll operations, developing policies and procedures, ensuring accurate payroll generation, overseeing payroll projects, legislative reporting and compliance, maintaining data integrity, and leading the payroll team. The role requires expertise in payroll systems, strong leadership skills, and a deep understanding of payroll regulations. The successful candidate will also be responsible for ICFR related tasks, including timesheet approvals, report reviews, and audit participation. This is a hybrid role based in Vancouver.
Must have:
- PCP Designation
- 10+ years Payroll & Benefits admin (Canada & US)
- 5+ years team management experience
- Payroll processing for 500+ employees
- Knowledge of payroll regulations
- Advanced MS Excel & GSuite proficiency
- Dayforce/ADP Workforce Now proficiency
7 skills required
Job Details
At Kabam, we’re constantly raising the bar of excellence in free-to-play gaming. We hire for passion and diversity so that we can triumph in our collective skill. Our teams are made up of a fusion of personalities and interests bound together by a collaborative nature, fun-loving culture, and a drive to do what it takes to make great games. And this is where you come in…
We're looking for a Senior Manager, Payroll, to join our high-performing and fun-loving team. Reporting to our Chief Financial Officer and working closely with the People team, this person will lead the payroll team and oversee and direct the payroll function for all Canadian and US employees across 5+ studios. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a passionate and talented team on complex payroll operations and make a big impact.
In this role, you can expect to be responsible for:
- Managing the activities of the payroll function
- Develops policies and procedures for payroll process and timekeeping; responsible for the development and implementation of procedural guideline improvements
- Ensures the generation of the company payroll, vacation and sick leave accrual, overtime and withholding status
- Takes ownership and overseeing a Payroll project for implementation and integration and working closely with project managers and stakeholders
- Review reports and analysis’ prepared by Payroll team members before submitting including the RRSP and 401(k) contribution files and benefit invoices for reconciliation
- Legislative Reporting and Compliance
- Meets all government reporting requirements for payroll taxes, withholding and employer contributions
- Keeps abreast of legal and regulatory requirements that have an impact on the organization’s payroll management, compensation and benefits, and adopt requirements and communicate changes to management and stakeholders as needed
- Maintains employee confidence and protects payroll operations by keeping information confidential
- Ensure that the segregation of duties is maintained within payroll so that no one person can process or make unauthorized changes to the payroll
- Maintains payroll system, ensure data integrity and suggest/implement system upgrades and enhancements
- Serve as subject matter expert for payroll systems, identifying opportunities for process improvements
- Troubleshoot system issues with internal stakeholders/external vendors and communicating resolutions/remediation with with end-user experience in mind
- Team management
- Lead the analysis, identification, and development of strategies for improving existing payroll processes, systems, and system integration by providing subject matter expertise and influencing decisions
- Establish and drive the team’s vision and goals in alignment with the organization’s overall strategic direction
- Reviews work done by staff and provide guidance
- Regularly participate in 1:1s with employees, as well as in the staffing, recruitment, onboarding and performance review processes throughout the year
- Espouse and foster a growth mindset by engaging self and encouraging others to continuously learn through training, mentorship, providing feedback and coaching
- Build accountability within the team as well as cohesiveness, supportiveness, and working effectively together to enable each employee and the department to succeed
- Cultivate a safe environment for the team that allows for disagreement over ideas, conflict and expeditious conflict resolution
- ICFR related Responsibilities
- Approve timesheets by employee’s line manager
- Prepare and review preliminary payroll report and comparative analysis
- Check and approve RRSP and 401(k) contribution files
- Review and approve benefit invoices prior to submitting invoice for payment
- Identify/research and resolve payroll issues
- Lead payroll related audits
Your background includes:
- PCP Designation
- 10+ years of Payroll and Benefits administration experience for Canada and the US
- 5+ years of experience managing a team
- Experience processing payroll for over 500 employees
- Knowledge of federal, provincial, and state payroll regulations and requirements
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and GSuite
- Proficiency in Dayforce, ADP Workforce Now, or other reputable payroll system
Excited by this opportunity? Kabam is dedicated to growing our diverse and inclusive workforce, so if your past experience doesn’t perfectly match the listed requirements we encourage you to apply anyways - you could be a great fit for this or other positions.
We invite you to apply now and start the conversation with us. Together, we can create and support some of the best games ever made and entertain the world!
About Kabam
Kabam is a world leader in developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social multiplayer games, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology, and revolutionary gameplay to players around the world.
Kabam’s games, Marvel Contest of Champions, Shop Titans, and more have generated hundreds of millions of downloads and have received multiple awards including Apple’s Editor’s Choice and Google Play’s Best Game of the Year.
Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in Vancouver, Montreal and Charlottetown in Canada, Los Angeles and San Francisco in the United States, and in Seoul, South Korea. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.
Kabam is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and equitable workplace, and inclusive environment for all existing and potential employees. Employment decisions are based on candidate qualifications and business need, not race, color, ancestry, place of origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, political belief, religion, creed, marital or family status, medical condition, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, prior criminal conviction or any other protected class in accordance with federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
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