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Position Summary
Join us as a Payroll Tax Analyst, Canada and play a pivotal role in ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payroll operations. You will help plan, organize, and monitor payroll activities, maintain systems and internal controls, and manage time‑tracking records while protecting confidential information. Using strong analytical skills, you’ll research and resolve payroll issues, gather data for audits and special projects, and drive process improvements that save time and reduce costs. You’ll also support year‑end reconciliations and retro processing, respond to employee inquiries with clarity and empathy, and act as a proactive liaison with HRSC to keep the team informed and trained on payroll initiatives.
Responsibilities
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:
Accountable for assisting with planning, organizing, and monitoring of all aspects of the payroll function.
This includes, but is not limited to, administrative duties involving the development and maintenance of payroll systems, internal controls and records and time tracking.
Responsible for collecting data for general audits and special projects
Troubleshot, research and provide recommendations to resolve payroll issues
Recommend ways to optimize the payroll process while reducing time expenditure and unnecessary costs
Respond to employee requests/inquiries pertaining to payroll matters
Maintain employee confidence and protect payroll operations by keeping confidential information
Support year-end processes including, but not limited to, processing necessary remittance reconciliation, earning and deduction code mappings and other reviews to troubleshoot and get ahead of any discrepancies
Assist with retro processing to ensure all necessary adjustments are properly recorded and paid
Serve as liaison with HRSC for training and questions. Provide updates to team on upcoming payroll items that may drive calls
Remote-capable and self‑directed: reliably available during core hours, meets deadlines, proactively communicates status/issues, maintains a secure home‑office, and protects confidential payroll information.
Why You?
Basic Qualification
We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals:
Bilingual English/French - native-level Quebec French required plus English
Advanced Excel (macros, VLOOKUP) and intermediate Microsoft Office skills
Strong analytical, problem‑solving, attention to detail, and critical‑thinking skills
Expert knowledge of Canadian payroll tax law and regulations across provinces
Working knowledge of accounting principles and reconciliations
Proven experience handling payroll transactions (acquisitions, global mobility, relocation, benefits, leave, equity, savings) and managing overpayments
Excellent written and verbal communication with cross‑cultural sensitivity; team‑oriented
Exceptional time management: able to multi‑task and meet deadlines under pressure
High degree of confidentiality and sensitivity to compliance issues
Flexible to work occasional nonstandard hours as required
Strong working knowledge of CRA requirements and provincial tax rules
Preferred Qualification
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
Canada Payroll Association PCP (Payroll Compliance Practitioner)
CPA designation or in‑progress; CPP or FPC — preferred
Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business, or related field; HR diploma/degree — asset
3–5 years’ experience in Canadian payroll tax and/or tax payables
Workday certification and practical experience with Workday reports
Familiarity with financial processes and third‑party vendor relationships
How to apply
If this role matches your skills and ambitions, we encourage you to apply. Please include a concise resume and a short note describing your payroll tax experience and what you want to achieve at GSK. We welcome applicants from different backgrounds and are committed to inclusion. If you need adjustments during the application or interview process, tell us and we will work with you. We look forward to hearing from you.
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In compliance with Ontario's provincial pay transparency legislation, this job posting includes a salary range to support equitable and informed hiring practices. The annual compensation for this role is CAD71,025 to CAD118,375 , determined based on experience, qualifications, and internal equity. GSK is dedicated to promoting transparency and fairness throughout our recruitment process.Salary ranges for other locations are shown because some markets have pay transparency laws that require salary information on job postings, and those locations are potential job sites for this role. If salary ranges are not displayed in the job posting for a specific location or country, the relevant compensation will be discussed during the recruitment process.Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.
People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.
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