Job Description

Adviser Payroll Services

• Great opportunity to work for a pioneering organization at the forefront of mining.
• Join a global network and diverse team where people are encouraged to offer unique perspectives and build knowledge and connections.
• Role based in Yellowknife, NT

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Payroll Services Adviser in our Yellowknife ESPS team. This role will work as part of a team supporting multiple payrolls, processes, and activities within a challenging payroll environment.

This role, whilst performing activities of analyst for assigned area, provides complex support and guidance to Payroll colleagues, Employees, leaders & HR, performs second level of review/approval, provides support to Team lead and viewed as successor to Team Lead

A great opportunity for a self-motivated payroll professional with strong collaboration skills and a continuous improvement mindset. In this role you will:

• Responsible to ensure timely and accurate payroll services of the scope of work
• Responsible and own Yearend activities and reporting
• Act as primary point of escalated issues from payroll team due to complexity and support non-standard
• transactions and issues with high degree of complexity.
• Lead and contribute to the on-time delivery of day-to-day payroll.
• Work closely with ESPS(employee services payroll services) team members to facilitate resolution of issues and ensure deadlines met
• Drive and monitor compliance to global/local policies and processes, company policies, internal control
• standards and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with relevant stakeholders to lead the resolution of complex payroll related queries, including the
• delivery of ad hoc payroll related business requirements.
• Identify, lead/support implementation of continuous improvement opportunities.
• Support/implement technical system updates/changes relating from legislative and Business requirements.
• Liaise with service providers, Global Mobility, local gov\xe2\x80\x99t (taxation payments, reconciliations, submissions both
• monthly, biannually, and annually)
• Manage external audits to satisfy payroll requests.
• Leads deployment of operational projects and recurring annual activities
• Review and perform second level of approval for monthly payroll processing
• Support Payroll accounting team to ensure timeous and accurate reconciliations
• Approval of monthly debit order files

What you\'ll bring

To succeed in this role, you must have

• Extensive experience in Payroll (over 5 years) with relevant University Degree
• degree/qualification, comprehensive understanding of CAD and Northern Payroll legislation and taxation.
• Knowledge and experience of SAP Payroll within an environment of 1000+ employees and multiple payrolls
• Ability to influence and problem solve.
• Proven experience in creating and development process documentation DTPs, SOPs, policies.
• Resilience, ability to thrive in a continuous improvement culture and have a strong commitment to team-
• based processes and outcomes.
• Capability and versatility in delivering objectives across a diverse workforce.
• Excellent interpersonal influencing, communication, consultation skills along with self-managing time to
• deliver priorities with high attention to detail.
• Excellent and effective written and verbal communication skills and analytical skills
• Strong exposure / experience in third party payments and reconciliation of GL accounts.
• A desire for further exposure /development in team leadership and willingness to take wider responsibility.

What we offer

Be recognized for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you\xe2\x80\x99ve helped the world progress.

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• Career development to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• A competitive compensation
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical programs, pension and savings plans
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Leave for all of life\xe2\x80\x99s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

About Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive. We have been mining for 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs \xe2\x80\x93 striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can\xe2\x80\x99t do it on our own, so we\xe2\x80\x99re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win and meet opportunities

Working at Rio Tinto also means choosing to be part of a company designated as one of Canada\'s Top 100 Employers in 2023 for a 4th consecutive year. For more information, click here:

Where you\xe2\x80\x99ll be working

Located in the Northwest Territories of Canada, the Diavik Diamond Mine is a producer of gem-quality diamonds. At Diavik, a strong focus is placed on protecting the local environment, as well as supporting communities through employment and education.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA2 community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome \xe2\x80\x93 they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.

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