Senior Director, Payroll

Job title:

Senior Director, Payroll

Company

Provincial Health Services Authority

Job description

Senior Director, Payroll

PHSA Corporate

Burnaby

You are an experienced CPA (or overseas equivalent) who is passionate about payroll and people – the internal and external clients, and the team members who provide service. You work with strategic vision across complex systems, employing efficiencies, technology, and processes to ensure positive experiences on both sides of transactions. Known for clear communication, your interpersonal skills include ability to bring diverse groups together through facilitation, negotiation, persuasion, and genuine caring.

Working across multiple levels of large organizations, you’re comfortable working with external partners including government bodies, labour relations teams, and your own colleagues both in and outside of payroll. The Provincial Health Services Authority’s (PHSA) “big numbers” provide an incredible career opportunity to apply vision, strategy, and leadership, with impact on tens of thousands of employees across the province.

What you’ll do

The Senior Director, Payroll reports to the Senior Executive Director, Employee Services and Strategic Initiatives, and holds has overall management responsibility for leading the payroll services function as an shared service for PHSA, PHC and VCH. This senior leadership role oversees five main functional areas: Payroll Accounting and Benefits, Payroll Administration, Payroll Processing & Call Centre, Project, and Quality Assurance & Learning. High-level accountabilities for the position include:

• Establishes and implements a vision, short and long-term goals, objectives, and operating principles that will clearly define the shared Payroll Services; monitors program performance and plans for future growth and improved service levels and effectiveness.
• Ensures the development and implementation of countermeasures and risk controls to ensure compliance to payroll legislation on a federal and provincial level; ensures regulatory compliance is met and maintained in the payroll processing environment.
• Strives to build and expand PHSA’s image and brand for internal and external clients with focus on the areas of standardized approach, quality, cost-effectiveness and timeliness of its services.
• Identifies and manages changes in scope and volumes with clients; supports resource planning based on strategic objectives by assessing future state needs and recommending solutions, alternatives and consequences of options.
• Recruits, hires, and supervises staff by identifying vacancies, interviewing applicants, and making hiring decisions in collaboration with the Senior Executive Director; investigating work and staff issues; clarifying roles, outlining expectations, and evaluating individual and team performance.
• Builds Service Metrics and Service Level Agreements with Health Authorities, and determines countermeasures to address gaps; assists PHSA in achieving its financial targets and business objectives as well as driving financial savings and cost avoidance for HAs.
• Represents PHSA at a variety of forums including attending provincial and regional meetings/conferences, Ministry of Health initiatives, academic organizations, regulatory bodies and other third party stakeholders and Health Authorities and advocate the interests of PHSA and maintaining and developing networks.
• Provides consultative collaboration with Health Authorities and agencies on regulatory implications of labour grievances/settlements and collective agreement provisions.

What you bring

Qualifications

• Professional accounting designation of CPA or overseas equivalent
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business or other relevant field
• 10-15 years’ recent and related payroll experience, including 5 years in a progressively complex senior management/leadership role, demonstrating an understanding of best practices in management coupled with solid operations and general management experience.

Skills & Knowledge

• Demonstrated ability to be successful in a large, complex, multi-site organization; with experience in building or creating new service organizations and leading cultural change in complex environments.
• Strong knowledge of HR/Payroll applications (e.g. PeopleSoft, Oracle, Workday, and/or SAP), particularly in an environment with collective agreements, applicable legislation and regulations.
• Comprehensive knowledge of accounting principles including internal control and audit requirements as well as legislation, regulations, practices and guidelines; knowledge of the healthcare field and its business needs are a definite asset as is shared services experience.
• Demonstrates an excellent ability to coach, develop, influence and motivate others including staff; capacity to provide both strategic and operational leadership while building the organization.
• Enjoys complexity and is driven to achieve results through innovation, flexibility, commitment, collaboration and outcomes; works effectively with ambiguity and able to manage multiple reports, priorities and meet deadlines.
• Strong commitment to team building and leadership in ensuring customer service excellence.
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of legislative obligations and provincial commitments found in the foundational documents – including Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan and Remembering Keegan: A First Nations Case Study – and how they intersect across the health care system.
• Models and supports full team commitment to Indigenous-specific anti-racism, anti-racism and Indigenous Cultural Safety including oversight and commitment to education strategy.
• Collaborates with peers to ensure Indigenous-specific Anti-racism and ICSH are applied holistically through department as whole.
• Commitment to upholding the shared responsibility of creating lasting and meaningful reconciliation in Canada as per TRC (2015) and BC’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019).
• As a strong asset for consideration, we are looking for our successful candidate to have: Knowledge of social, economic, political and historical realities of settler colonialism on Indigenous Peoples and familiarity with addressing Indigenous-specific anti-racism, anti-racism and Indigenous Cultural Safety and foundational documents and legislative commitments (The Declaration Act, the Declaration Action Plan, TRC, IPS, Remembering Keegan, etc.).

What we bring

Every PHSA employee enables the best possible patient care for our patients and their families. Whether you are providing direct care, conducting research, or making it possible for others to do their work, you impact the lives of British Columbians today and in the future. That’s why we’re focused on your care too – offering health, wellness, development programs to support you – at work and at home.

• Join one of BC’s largest employers with province-wide programs, services and operations – offering opportunities for growth, development, and recognition programs that honour the commitment and contribution of all employees.
• Access to professional development opportunities through our in-house training programs, including +2,000 courses, such as our San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training course, or Core Linx for Leadership roles.
• Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including municipal pension plan, and psychological health & safety programs and holistic wellness resources.
• Annual statutory holidays (13) with generous vacation entitlement and accruement.
• PHSA is a remote work friendly employer, welcoming flexible work options to support our people (eligibility may vary, depending on position).
• Access to WorkPerks, a premium discount program offering a wide range of local and national discounts on electronics, entertainment, dining, travel, wellness, apparel, and more.

Job Type: Regular Full-Time
Salary: $124,561 – $179,056 The starting salary for this position would be determined with consideration of the successful candidate’s relevant education and experience, and would be in alignment with the provincial compensation reference plan. Salary will be prorated accordingly for part time roles.
Location: 1795 Willingdon Ave. Burnaby, BC
Closing date: Open until position is filled
Requisition # 151062E

As per the current Public Health Order, full vaccination against COVID-19 is a condition of employment with PHSA as of October 26, 2021.

What we do

The Provincial Health Services Authority ( ) plans, manages and evaluates specialized health services with the BC health authorities to provide equitable and cost-effective health care for people throughout the province. Our values reflect our commitment to excellence and include: Respect people – Be compassionate – Dare to innovate – Cultivate partnerships – Serve with purpose.

Learn more about PHSA and our programs:

PHSA is committed to employment equity, encouraging all qualified individuals to apply. We recognize that our ability to provide the best care for our diverse patient populations relies on a rich diversity of skills, knowledge, background and experience, and value a safe, inclusive and welcoming environment.

Reconciliation is an ongoing process and a shared responsibility for all of us. The BC Government unanimous passing of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act was a significant step forward in this journey—one that all health authorities are expected to support as we work in cooperation with Indigenous Peoples to establish a clear and sustainable path to meaningful and lasting reconciliation. True reconciliation will take time and ongoing commitment to work with Indigenous Peoples as we move toward self-determination. Guiding these efforts PHSA must uphold legislative obligations and provincial commitments found in the foundational documents such as including Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan and Remembering Keegan: A First Nations Case Study.

ATTN: PHSA Employees:

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Labor Agreement Excluded
Requisition # 151062E-2404135
Work Site 1795 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby
Job Type Regular, Full-Time
Salary/Rate $124,561.00 – $179,056.00 / Year
FTE 1.00
Hours of Work 8:00-16:00
Work Days Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
Expiry Date 05-Feb-2024

Expected salary

$124561 – 179056 per year

Location

Burnaby, BC

Job date

Sun, 07 Jan 2024 08:00:09 GMT

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