HR Technician - Payroll
Your Opportunity:
Health Shared Services is seeking an experienced payroll professional for the role of HR Technician/Advisor, Payroll Operations. This position supports the Refocus Alberta Project, focusing on auditing, documentation, and system optimization in a large, complex environment. Responsibilities include maintaining payroll documentation to ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance with current processes. This role manages payroll overpayments, including tracking, implementation, and prior-year T4 adjustments, and leads the transition from individual spreadsheets to a standardized receivable tracker to improve visibility and control. The position provides support to payroll teams by reviewing queries, offering process guidance, and identifying opportunities to streamline reporting and query execution. It also involves assisting staff with payroll inquiries and refining documentation based on recurring issues. Duties include performing payroll audits such as off-cycle transactions, single payments, and reviews of WCB, pension, benefits, overpayments, and special payroll loads. The role requires running payroll reports (e.g., ePeople) and validating high-value transactions to ensure compliance. Additional responsibilities include updating documentation for key payroll roles and ensuring alignment with current business practices and system processes. The role also supports testing and optimizing payroll queries and reports, improving performance, and enhancing bi-weekly scheduling across multiple companies. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, accurate, and comfortable working with large data sets, payroll systems, and reporting tools in a multi-entity environment. A focus on continuous improvement and operational efficiency is essential.
Description:
As an HR Technician, you will require specialized skills and knowledge to support complex procedures, practices and initiatives within a department or program.
- Transition Company: Health Shared Services
- Classification: HR Technician
- Union: AUPE GSS
- Unit and Program: Payroll
- Primary Location: Southport Tower
- Location Details: Eligible to work remotely within Alberta
- Multi-Site: Not Applicable
- FTE: 1.00
- Posting End Date: 13-MAY-2026
- Temporary Employee Class: Temp F/T Benefits
- Date Available: 25-MAY-2026
- Temporary End Date: 31-MAR-2027
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 2
- Shifts per cycle: 10
- Shift Pattern: Days
- Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
- Minimum Salary: $36.03
- Maximum Salary: $47.97
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
Completion of post-secondary education in a related field.
Additional Required Qualifications:CPA (Canadian Payroll Association) PCP certification required.
Preferred Qualifications:5+ years’ experience processing Payroll within large organizations, where multiple terms of employment and/or collective agreements are administered. Proficient in MS Office.
Please note:
All postings close at 23:59 MT of the posting end date indicated.
Security Screening:
A satisfactory criminal record check and/or Vulnerable Sector Search is required prior to your first day of work. Additionally, all employees have an ongoing duty to disclose any charges or convictions that may occur during their employment with AHS.
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