Senior Payroll Analyst

Location: Canada; remote-first work environment

Base salary: $72,680–$85,500 CAD annually for Canadian residents; compensation differs for other countries.

Company

hirify.global operates internet businesses including hirify.global Domains, Ting Internet, and Wavelo, with more than 1,000 employees across over 20 countries.

What you will do

• Execute tax reconciliations, statutory filings, audit documentation, and correction files for US and Canadian tax authorities.
• Lead pre-year-end checks, data hygiene reviews, balancing runs, and issuance support for US W-2/1099 and Canadian T4/RL-1 forms.
• Support organizational projects through report generation, legacy data extraction, employee profile audits, system alignment, data migrations, and parallel testing.
• Validate biweekly and monthly payroll inputs for hourly and salaried populations, including variable compensation, taxable benefits, reimbursements, and statutory deductions.
• Resolve employee payroll and tax inquiries, historical pay adjustments, vendor discrepancies, and escalations while partnering with HR and Finance.
• Administer benefits and RRSP programs, reconcile payroll and benefit accounts, prepare journal entries, and support compliance, SOX reviews, and government reporting.

Requirements

• 5–8+ years of hands-on payroll processing and reconciliation experience, with US and Canadian payroll experience required.
• Expert Microsoft Excel skills, including XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, pivot tables, nested formulas, and data matching.
• Deep knowledge of US federal, state, and local tax setups and Canadian payroll legislation, including T4, ROE, RL-1, and remittance rules.
• Experience with payroll data mapping, process audits, parallel run testing, system implementations, data migrations, or complex tax reconciliation initiatives.
• Advanced experience with third-party payroll systems such as ADP, iiPay, or HiBob.
• Post-secondary education in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline.
• Ability to independently manage high-volume work against strict deadlines while maintaining accuracy, confidentiality, integrity, and data quality.
• Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, collaboration, communication, and customer-service skills.
• Experience reconciling payroll and benefit accounts and preparing related journal entries.

Nice to have

• PCP or CPP designation.
• Awareness of EMEA or global payroll.
• Experience working in a remote-first, multi-entity environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Three-month contract with an opportunity for extension.
• Remote-first work philosophy with a people-first culture based on respect, trust, and flexibility.
• Work involves US, Canadian, and global jurisdictions and collaboration with payroll, HR, Finance, tax authorities, and vendors.
• Benefits include administration of RRSP programs and a total rewards offering with generous benefits.