Payroll Accounting Advisor - Temporary

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• Prepare and coordinate payroll accounting activities for Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
• Manage new hires and departures in ADP systems.
• Act as a contact person with ADP providers and external payroll register for Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
• Act as the primary contact person for all employee questions related to payroll registers.
• Manage collaboration and communication with social security agencies, tax authorities and employment assistance agencies.
• Manage all administrative issues related to payroll registers (e.g., SV.net requests, A1 certificate requests, sick child reports, tax reports for travel facility flights and Brille points).
• Coordinate the administration of Air Canada child allowances (e.g., certificates).
• Monitor special payments (e.g., sick leave, jubilee, allowances).
• Manage payments related to garnishments and communication with third parties.
• Prepare relevant reports on payroll accounting for the Finance management (in London) and general management, and process appropriate correspondence (payroll registers, coding boxes, credit notes).
• Manage the annual wage declaration for insolvency insurers (e.g., PSVaG).
• Process work certificates for the employment assistance agency.
• Ensure the administration of the Pensions and Group Life Insurance departments, as well as communications with insurance and general management services.
• Manage all issues related to retired employees (establishment of new beneficiary files, indexation of pensions, annual pension information for German tax authorities, obtain and send life insurance certificates to the pension fund of each Air Canada retiree and correspondence partners, etc.).
• Contribute to the implementation of ADP.
• Liaise with internal and external auditors of the Company.
• Produce and extract reports from the payroll system.
• Process government statistics.
• Contribute to projects related to payroll accounting.
• Process local invoices and credit notes (scanning, sending to Conduent for upload in Ariba, coding by service identification number, approval in Ariba, follow-up with Conduent and London Finance to ensure timely payment).
• Investigate local accounting and tax issues for London Finance.
• Manage sick leave and communicate information for all departments in Germany based on a new legal procedure (sv.net).
• Handle the administration of the group life insurance scheme and other insurance schemes.
• Ensure the administration of Deutschlandticket for all new employees.
• Manage Air Canada travel registration.
• Contribute to the performance of other Human Resources tasks or special projects as needed.

Qualifications

• University degree or apprenticeship program in the field of payroll accounting, or comparable training in economics.
• At least five years of experience in the field of payroll accounting in Germany.
• Experience with ADP, an asset.
• Excellent knowledge of HR practices and processes.
• Proven talent for organization and interpersonal relations.
• Care and respect for confidentiality.
• Proven team spirit.
• Ability to work under pressure, without supervision and on one's own initiative.
• Excellent knowledge of Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

Conditions of employment:

Candidates must be eligible to work in the country concerned at the time a job offer is presented and are responsible for obtaining work permits, visas or other necessary authorizations. Proof of eligibility must be provided before the start date.

Language Requirements

Mastery of German, English and French, an asset.

Diversity and Inclusion

Air Canada is strongly committed to diversity and inclusion and aims to create a healthy, accessible and rewarding workplace that highlights the unique contribution of our employees to the success of our business.

As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage diverse applications in order to have a workforce that is varied and representative of our customers and the communities where we live and offer our services.

Air Canada thanks all candidates for their interest, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.