All jobs within 50 km around La Prairie in Financial Services

The role of the Payroll Specialist is to provide administrative support to the St. Constant plant, bringing thoroughness and organization in the activities of the various departments. Ensure hourly payroll and benefits management; daily liaison in submitting employee issues. Perform regular accounting tasks and participate in safety initiatives in the market area.  

Key Responsibilities

Safety:

• Acts as a role model in matters of safety, environmental stewardship, leadership, teamwork, and continuous improvement to ensure consistency with the company’s vision and decisive success factors.

Pay-HR:    

• Responsible for the bi-weekly pay closing process for hourly employees.
• Supports the hiring process of temporary and permanent unionized workers.
• Processes the termination of employee/contract of temporary unionized workers.
• Maintains personnel registers (active personnel reports - absenteeism, overtime) and for emergency evacuations, database report for emergency calls and others, time-off journal (vacation, sick leave, etc.).
• Submits requests in SAP for hourly employees’ employment changes, hires, layoffs, and termination.
• Organizes the physical evaluation of new employees.
• Works with union officers in applying and interpreting the collective agreement. Implements all changes to the collective agreement upon renewal.
• Prepares and ensures follow-up of CNESST and health benefits files.

Administration:

• Creates purchase requisitions, follows up on POs and processes invoices/bills of lading related to HR.
• Plans and organizes and United Way (Centraide) fund-raising campaign.
• Prepares manual invoices: union leave, etc. Acts as replacement for Accounts Payables and Training administrative assistants.

Relationships with Others’ Jobs:

• Works closely with the plant’s Service Reps, including the Plant Manager, Managers and Supervisors.
• Work with various departments, such as HR, Finance and Purchasing.

Dimensions: 

• Pay: bimonthly production for 100 employees
• Plant Annual Production Capacity: 550 000m3
• Direct Reports: 0
• Total Number of Employees: 125
   

Qualification Profile

Education s and Work Experience

• High School Diploma (DEP) in Administration, with at least 5 years work experience in a similar work environment OR Professional College Diploma in Administration with 3 years’ experience.
• Payroll experience in a unionized environment a significant asset.

Knowledge and skills

• Good knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint  
• Knowledge in enterprise resource planning software (SAP), an asset.
• Excellent organizational skills. 
• Strong interpersonal skills. 
• Expertise in priority and multiple requests management. 
• Efficient team work with a minimum of supervision. 
• Ability to take initiatives. 
• Bilingualism (French and English), spoken and written. 

Job Specific competencies    

• Drive for results
• Interpersonal saavy
• Organizational agility
• Problem solving
• Timely decision-making       
• Customer Focus
• Integrity and trust
• Listening
• Priority setting 

We thank you for your interest. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.  Lafarge is committed to the principles of employment equity and encourages the applications from women, visible minorities, and persons with disabilities.