Senior Payroll Analyst

The Opportunity 

Join Dentalcorp’s Payroll team in a role where your expertise will directly shape the accuracy, efficiency, and evolution of Canadian payroll. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Payroll, you will take on high-impact work and help deliver an exceptional payroll experience across the organization. 

As a senior technical resource within Payroll Operations, you will lead complex multi-provincial payroll activities, strengthen payroll governance, and turn ideas into meaningful process and system improvements. You will collaborate with HR, Finance, Tax, Treasury, HRIS, and external partners on strategic initiatives that advance the payroll function and create lasting impact. This is an opportunity to apply deep payroll expertise, influence how work gets done, and support a collaborative team within Dentalcorp’s network of practices. 

Who You Are 

• You are a seasoned payroll professional who is energized by solving complex challenges and making payroll work better.
• With strong expertise in Canadian payroll legislation, Workday Payroll, and multi-provincial operations, you bring the confidence and curiosity to navigate complexity and turn it into practical solutions. 
• You enjoy being the person others turn to for thoughtful guidance and trusted payroll expertise.
• You build strong partnerships across Payroll, HR, Finance, Tax, Treasury, and HRIS, and you are motivated by opportunities to mentor colleagues, improve processes, and influence positive change. 
• Fluent in English and French, you communicate complex payroll matters with clarity and empathy for employees and business partners across Canada.
• You are analytical, organized, and detail-oriented, while keeping sight of the people and experiences behind every payroll decision. 

In This Role, You Will 

• Lead complex payroll processing activities for Canadian multi-provincial payrolls, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with applicable legislative and regulatory requirements. 

• Review payroll preview results, complete payroll balancing and validation, investigate variances, and support payroll sign-off activities. 

• Lead complex payroll investigations, retroactive calculations, payroll corrections, and the resolution of escalated employee inquiries. 

• Complete and review payroll reconciliations and support statutory remittances to the CRA, Revenu Québec, WSIB and applicable workers’ compensation boards, EHT authorities, and other regulatory bodies. 

• Coordinate year-end payroll activities, including the preparation, balancing, reconciliation, and reporting of T4, T4A, and RL-1 slips. 

• Serve as a Payroll Subject Matter Expert for Workday Payroll, including payroll configuration, testing, user acceptance testing, system enhancements, and the implementation of payroll-related changes. 

• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve payroll procedures, process documentation, and internal controls. 

• Identify and implement opportunities to automate, streamline, and enhance payroll processes in support of operational excellence. 

• Partner with HR, Finance, Treasury, Tax, HRIS, and external vendors to investigate and resolve complex payroll matters. 

• Support internal and external audits by preparing payroll documentation and reconciliations and responding to payroll-related audit requests. 

• Mentor and support Payroll Analysts by providing technical guidance, sharing payroll expertise and best practices, and assisting with complex payroll scenarios. 

• Prepare and analyze payroll reports and ad hoc data, identify trends and exceptions, and provide insights that support operational and leadership decision-making. 

• Support acquisitions, payroll integrations, system implementations, and other strategic or special payroll projects, including testing, validation, reconciliation, and post-implementation activities, as required. 

What You’ll Bring 

• 5+ years of progressive Canadian payroll experience is required, including experience supporting large, multi-provincial payrolls. 

• PCP designation required; PLP designation considered an asset. 

• Advanced knowledge of Canadian payroll legislation, statutory remittances, payroll reconciliations, and year-end reporting is required. 

• Experience with Workday Payroll is required, including experience with payroll testing, system enhancements, or payroll-related changes is required. 

• Experience supporting system implementations, process improvements, or payroll-related projects. 

• Strong analytical, reconciliation, and problem-solving skills, with exceptional attention to detail. 

• Ability to manage competing priorities and consistently meet critical payroll deadlines. 

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to explain complex payroll concepts clearly. 

• Demonstrated experience mentoring or coaching team members and providing technical guidance. 

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills. 

• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English and French is required to support employees and business partners across Canada. 
  

Why Dentalcorp? 

Dentalcorp is North America’s leading and fastest-growing network of dental practices. Through industry-leading technology, expertise, and scale, we help practices grow while supporting dental professionals to retain their clinical autonomy. Here, you’ll be trusted with meaningful responsibility, supported to grow, and surrounded by people who share ideas and raise the bar together. Our Beyond Brilliant values—Beyond the Status Quo, Beyond Excellence, Brilliant Together, and Brilliant Experiences—guide how we innovate, collaborate, deliver, and put people at the centre.

You will be based at our Toronto Support Centre, located at 181 Bay Street in the heart of Toronto’s financial district. This position will be on site from Monday to Thursday, with Fridays designated as work-from-home days. 

The salary range for this position is $75,000 CAD to $95,000 CAD annually (plus a bonus of up to 10% and competitive total rewards and benefits package). Offers within this range are determined based on relevant experience, skills, and qualifications, as well as internal equity considerations. This job posting is for an existing vacancy.

Candidates must be legally eligible to work in Canada. At Dentalcorp, we recognize that inclusivity and diversity strengthen our culture and make us better. We are committed to ensuring that the talent we hire is reflective of the diverse communities and patients we serve. To ensure equal opportunity for all candidates, we strongly encourage applicants requiring an accommodation to let their recruiter know during the recruitment/selection process. We appreciate all applicants for taking the time to apply, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.