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Senior Payroll & Benefits Specialist

Clio

Clio

Accounting & Finance
Vancouver, BC, Canada · Toronto, ON, Canada · Calgary, AB, Canada
CAD 89,300-120,700 / year
Posted on Apr 24, 2025

Clio is more than just a tech company–we are a global leader that is transforming the legal experience for all by bettering the lives of legal professionals while increasing access to justice.

Summary:

Responsibilities:

  • Championing our human and high-performing culture, processes and experiences through the employee life cycle

  • Administering and coordinating day to day operations of the people team, including employee relations, employee experience, social impact, learning and development, execution of our talent systems programs, benefits administration, people systems admin, and talent acquisition.

  • You take an active role in triaging and resolving employee requests submitted to the People team via our ticketing platform.

  • Administrating offboarding management and partnering with PBPs, IT and other stakeholders to ensure a smooth and compliant offboarding experience.

  • Tracking and monitoring invoices and vendor contracts.

  • Monitoring and processing recognition and social requests.

  • Ensuring process and document and information management hygiene and compliance within the People functions.

  • Enhancing and streamlining People information to increase accessibility and improve employee and manager self-service.

  • Building strong relationships to ensure successful collaborations within the people team and other business stakeholders, such as OCEO, Legal, Total Rewards, ERG’s, Social Impact etc.

  • As needed, maintaining employment records and changes through the HRIS platform and other systems, ensuring data integrity, in partnership with Payroll and the PSA team

  • Assisting with general employee and manager queries, and monitoring and communicating people trends, both qualitative, and quantitative as monitored in Workday

  • Participating in cross functional people team projects as needed

Technical Skills:

  • Know existing and research new legislation, enforcing adherence to requirements and advising management on needed actions

  • Intermediate to advanced knowledge of excel and the use of formulas

  • Ability to teach and knowledge transfer with junior payroll clerks.

  • Experience with HRIS systems such as assisting with delivering system improvements, testing new features and releases, etc.

Required Skills & Experience:

  • PCP designation

  • At least 3-5 years of Payroll experience (required)

  • Experience using Workday (preferred)

  • Experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment (required)

  • Advanced excel proficiency (required)

  • Project management experience (required)

  • US or Global payroll expertise (strongly preferred)

  • Proficiency in using Global Payroll and EOR technology (preferred)

What you will find here:

Compensation is one of the main components of Clio’s Total Rewards Program. We have developed a series of programs and processes to ensure we are creating fair and competitive pay practices that form the foundation of our human and high-performing culture.

Some highlights of our Total Rewards program include:

  • Competitive, equitable salary with top-tier health benefits, dental, and vision insurance

  • Hybrid work environment, with expectation for local Clions (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Dublin) to be in office minimum 2 days per week on our Anchor Days.

  • Flexible time off policy, with an encouraged 20 days off per year.

  • $2000 annual counseling benefit

  • RRSP matching and RESP contribution

  • Clioversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years

The full salary range* for this role is $89,300 to $105,000 to $120,700 CAD.Please note salary bands may differ based on location and local currency. Additionally, benefit offerings may differ depending on the employee's location.

*We aim to hire all candidates between the minimum and the midpoint of the full salary range. We reserve the midpoint to the maximum of the salary band for internal employees who demonstrate sustained high performance and impact at Clio. The final offer amount for this role will be dependent on individual experience and skillset of the candidate. Please note there are a separate set of salary bands for other regions based on local currency.

Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity (DIBE) & Accessibility

Our team shows up as their authentic selves, and are united by our mission. We are dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion. We pride ourselves in building and fostering an environment where our teams feel included, valued, and enabled to do the best work of their careers, wherever they choose to log in from. We believe that different perspectives, skills, backgrounds, and experiences result in higher-performing teams and better innovation. We are committed to equal employment and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

Clio provides accessibility accommodations during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Learn more about our culture at clio.com/careers