Payroll Specialist

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Job Title: Payroll Specialist
Location: Winnipeg, MB, Prairies Canada, Canada

Company: Cargill, Inc
Industry Sector: Agribusiness
Industry Type: Input Retail, Cooperative and Related Crop Services
Career Type: Accounting/Finance/Asset Management
Job Type: Full Time

Job Description: Cargill's size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.
We are a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials - from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Payroll Specialist job performs moderately complex payroll processing tasks to support the team in the smooth delivery of a high quality payroll process, including the reconciliation of payroll records, legislation compliance and data verification and administration. Under limited supervision, this job ensures accurate payroll process execution and compliance of payroll processes. This job also advises on local technical payroll regulations.

Key Accountabilities

PAYROLL COMPLIANCE EXECUTION: Implements payroll process adjustments based on new regulations to ensure payroll processes meet legal and fiscal requirements and that payroll records are aligned to guidelines.
PAYROLL RECORDS MAINTENANCE & DATA QUALITY ASSURANCE: Verifies and reviews payroll data, ensuring the accuracy of data for essential payroll variables such as employee salaries, bank accounts, and addresses for new hires and terminations, and that payroll variable elements are aligned with the organization's policies.
COMMUNICATION: Provides counseling and advice on local technical payroll regulations to support the organization's compliance and identifies employee concerns that require further support.
PAYROLL ADMINISTRATION: Executes various moderately complex payroll process tasks, including coordinating the submission of required reports, running post payroll reports for third party companies, tax filing and reconciliation, preparing and distributing paychecks or direct deposits, generating payroll reports, ensuring reconciliation of payroll records, responding to employee inquiries regarding their pay, and resolving exceptions and errors.
PAYROLL COMPLIANCE: Conducts research of payroll related laws and regulations to help monitor and manage compliance of the organization's payroll process.
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Analyzes current payroll processes, maintains awareness of industry trends and best practices, and identifies opportunities to improve the organization's methods and control implementation.
VENDOR MANAGEMENT: Supports partnering with key vendors and stakeholders to stay updated on the latest technologies, tools and methodologies, and helps identify opportunities to integrate them into program design and delivery.

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Diploma/Certificate or bachelor's degree in Payroll or in a related field
Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.
Payroll compliance practitioner (PCP) designation or working towards it
Proficiency in Microsoft Office
Excellent analytical skills, with ability to multi-task under tight deadlines
Must be legally entitled to work for Cargill in Canada

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Five years of Canadian payroll processing experience
Experience with ADP GlobalView Payroll System
Bilingual English and French

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Cargill is an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing accommodation to our job applicants with disabilities.

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Job Post Date: 09/18/25