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About the Role
As the Senior Global Payroll Specialist, you will play a critical role in supporting PartnerRe’s global payroll operations across multiple countries, primarily in North America, Europe, and APAC. Combining hands-on payroll execution with operational leadership, you will act as a payroll subject matter expert, mentor, and project lead while remaining actively involved in day-to-day payroll delivery. You will also be a key contributor to payroll transformation and technology modernization initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Process end-to-end payroll activities across multiple countries, including regular, off-cycle, bonus, and year-end payrolls
- Review, validate, reconcile, and balance payroll data, earnings, deductions, taxes, and benefits, completing audits and quality reviews
- Investigate and resolve complex payroll issues and employee inquiries while partnering with vendors and stakeholders to ensure timely delivery
- Prepare payroll reports and maintain accurate, audit-ready documentation
- Support compliance with payroll legislation, statutory requirements, year-end reporting, filings, audits, and payroll controls
- Monitor legislative changes and assess their payroll impacts
- Administer payroll-related benefit deductions and contributions, and support leave, disability, retirement, and wellness programs
- Partner with HR and vendors to resolve benefit-related issues
- Provide day-to-day guidance, knowledge sharing, onboarding, training, and mentoring across the payroll team
- Act as a payroll subject matter expert and escalation point, coordinating team and stakeholder activities and leading project workstreams without formal people management authority
- Serve as a key subject matter expert on payroll transformation and technology modernization initiatives
- Contribute to requirements gathering, process design, solution validation, testing, user acceptance testing, parallel payroll validation, and defect resolution
- Identify automation and process improvement opportunities, and support related change management, training, and transition activities
Requirements
- 7+ years of progressive payroll experience
- Strong payroll compliance and statutory knowledge
- Global payroll exposure, particularly in the United States and Canada
- Experience leading projects or acting as a senior payroll resource
- Demonstrated ability to influence and lead work without formal authority
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, reconciliation, and issue-resolution skills
- Effective communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate across HR, vendors, and payroll teams
- Ability to manage sensitive employee and payroll information with discretion and confidentiality
Skills
- Payroll
- Compliance
- Statutory knowledge
- Global payroll
- Project leadership
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving
- Reconciliation
- Issue resolution
- Communication
- Stakeholder management
- Collaboration
- Discretion
- Confidentiality
- Payroll transformation
- Technology modernization
- Automation
- Testing
- User acceptance testing
- Benefits administration
- Vendor coordination
Location
- Toronto
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- CAD $102533-125318 per year
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Health spending account
- Defined contribution pension plan
- Life insurance
- Short-term disability coverage
- Long-term disability coverage
- Annual incentive program
About the Company
- PartnerRe is a leading, privately owned, multi-line global reinsurer with a reputation of financial stability and strength, and a commitment to rebuilding businesses and communities after risk events around the world.
- Our mission is to continue to be a financially stable and predictable business partner, supporting our clients with solutions tailored to their needs, delivering superior returns to our owner, providing rewarding opportunities for our people and making a positive contribution to society.
- To achieve this, we live by our values of Integrity, Performance, Collaboration, Straightforward Communication and Respect and Care.
- Core to The PartnerRe Experience is our global nature. No matter where you sit in the company, you are part of something bigger.
- Our teams represent our truly international mindset, forging connections across office locations and all levels of the organization and building a network of mutual success.
- The result is a day-to-day experience that will allow you to: Shape your own career, Grow in a supportive environment, Connect with a community of experts, Make an impact.
Equal Opportunity
- PartnerRe is an equal opportunities employer.
- PartnerRe provides a working environment in which diversity is valued, where all employees feel welcome, respected, and empowered to perform at their best.
- PartnerRe is committed to an inclusive, accessible recruitment experience. Reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities are available upon request throughout the hiring process.