Human Resources Practitioner
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 27, 2026. First seen by Alion on Jul 31, 2026. Accenture scores A on the Alion truth index.
About the Role
This role is ideal for a detail-oriented, service-focused professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is committed to accuracy, compliance, and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities:
- Process and validate multiple pay-frequency payroll cycles for Canadian employee groups, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely completion.
- Complete and review audit reports to confirm accuracy, reasonability, and alignment with internal standards.
- Provide responsive customer service for colleague/employee life-cycle inquiries related to payroll
- Develop and apply knowledge of relevant payroll legislation, regulations, policies, and union agreements across Canada
- Identify, analyze, and recommend process improvements and system enhancements to increase efficiency, accuracy, and service quality.
- Support additional activities as required.
Basic Qualifications:
- A University degree or College degree in a related field
- 3-5 years of experience in full-cycle payroll administration
- Bilingual in French and English, strong communication skills, written and verbal in both languages
Preferred Qualifications:
- Worked in a large, multi-national organization with Canadian operations.
- Understanding of payroll legislation and compliance requirements.
- Payroll Compliance Practitioner (PCP) certification, or equivalent experience.
- Proven ability to deliver exceptional customer service with professionalism, empathy, and accuracy.
- Strong organizational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritize competing tasks and meet deadlines in a high-volume environment.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to review information carefully and recommend practical solutions.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with internal teams and external partners.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel.
- Experience with Workday Payroll, and time and attendance systems such as STAS, Kronos, or Workday.
- Demonstrated discretion and commitment to maintaining confidentiality when handling sensitive colleague information.
Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location,
role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time
employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
The recruiting efforts for this position is intended to fill a brand new position.
The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role. It does not represent a maximum limit - in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.
Information on benefits is here.
Role Location Hourly Salary Range
British Columbia/Ontario/ New Brunswick$22.86 to $46.90
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services-creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us atwww.accenture.com
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