When you join East Penn Canada, you become part of a leading battery solutions provider serving essential industries across Canada. Our teams support transportation, motive power, backup power, and consumer markets by helping the business operate efficiently, serve customers effectively, and make informed decisions every day. We offer meaningful work, opportunities to grow, and the stability of a strong, national organization supported by benefits and programs designed to help you thrive.
Are you a detail-driven Payroll & Benefits Administrator who takes pride in accuracy, compliance, and supporting employees while striving for continuous improvement? If so, we are seeking a high-caliber professional to administer payroll and benefits, provide reporting, and deliver an excellent employee experience to our people.
This position is a fully onsite vacancy based out of our Courtice head office.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer accurate and timely bi-weekly hourly and salary multi-province payroll for 400 employees, ensuring compliance with legislation.
- Maintain employee payroll data including new hires, terminations, leaves, and compensation changes.
- Review and validate time and attendance data.
- Prepare and submit ROEs, statutory remittances, and year-end filings (T4s, RL-1s, EHT, T2200s, WSIB/CNESST).
- Administer employee benefit and group retirement programs, including enrollments and changes, and deliver benefits onboarding and education sessions to employees.
- As the subject matter expert, respond to employee payroll and benefits inquiries with professionalism and discretion, providing exceptional customer service.
- Maintain accurate records and develop payroll, benefits, compensation, and absence-related reports.
- Support audits and proactively contribute to continuous process improvement initiatives.
Qualifications You Need
- Minimum 3 years of experience in payroll and benefits administration.
- Post-Secondary diploma/degree with an accounting/payroll focus or equivalent experience.
- Strong understanding of payroll, benefits, and employment legislation.
- Hands-on experience with an integrated HRIS/payroll system (we use Ceridian Dayforce).
- Strong working knowledge of MS Word and Outlook, and high level of proficiency in MS Excel for data reconciliation, forecasting, and reporting, as required.
- Exceptional attention to detail and ability to handle confidential information with tact.
- Highly organized with strong planning and prioritization skills.
- Strong critical thinking and proactive problem-solving skills.
- Takes initiative with a proven ability to navigate a variety of tasks, while maintaining an optimistic attitude.
- Works effectively as part of a dynamic team and contributes to a positive team environment.
- Payroll Compliance Practitioner (PCP) designation completed or in progress is an asset.
“What Powers You” matters. Here’s how we support our HR team:
- Competitive compensation with results-based rewards tied to performance
- 100% employer paid extended health and dental benefits, plus insurance coverage, a Health Spending Account, and paid sick days to support your health and wellbeing
- Profit sharing program and deferred profit-sharing to support long-term financial planning
- Career growth opportunities, with many roles across our four divisions filled through internal promotions
- Industry leading training and development, including inhouse learning opportunities and tuition reimbursement to support continued growth
- A collaborative, team-based work environment where contributions are recognized and valued
- Employee discounts on batteries, plus access to exclusive deals on popular brands and other exciting perks.
Join a team within the battery industry that values your contributions and invests in your long-term success.
Applicants must be legally eligible to work in Canada to be considered. We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted by phone, email, and for some roles, by text message.
Skills Required
- Minimum 3 years of experience in payroll and benefits administration
- Post-secondary diploma or degree with an accounting/payroll focus, or equivalent experience
- Strong understanding of payroll, benefits, and employment legislation
- Hands-on experience with an integrated HRIS/payroll system
- Experience managing leaves of absence and statutory disability applications
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Outlook
- High proficiency in Microsoft Excel for reconciliation, forecasting, and reporting
- Payroll Compliance Practitioner designation completed or in progress
- Exceptional attention to detail and ability to handle confidential information
- Strong organization, planning, and prioritization skills
- Critical thinking and proactive problem-solving skills
- Ability to manage varied tasks while maintaining a positive attitude
- Ability to work effectively as part of a dynamic team
What We Do
East Penn Manufacturing is a Pennsylvania-based manufacturer of batteries and stored-energy products, headquartered in Lyon Station. It produces more than 515 battery types at a 520-acre facility and other locations, serving automotive, commercial, motive-power, stationary, and renewable-energy markets. Through its broad product portfolio and operations in the United States and Canada, the company supports transportation, industrial, backup-power, and energy-storage needs.
