Advisor, Payroll Tax & Compliance - Conseiller(ère), Fiscalité et conformité de la paie

Rio Tinto • Montreal, QC

10d • Hybrid

About The Position

Play a key subject matter expert role in Canadian payroll tax and statutory compliance. Apply your expertise in remittances, reconciliations, controls, and year-end reporting. Help strengthen payroll accuracy, compliance, and team capability in a global organization. Role is based in either Montreal or Salt Lake City. We’re Finding Better Ways™ to provide materials the world needs, now and in the future. Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other. About the role We are looking for an Advisor, Payroll Tax & Compliance to act as a subject matter expert in Canadian payroll tax and statutory compliance, ensuring accurate filings, remittances, reconciliations, and year-end reporting while strengthening controls and supporting capability building across the payroll team. This is a great opportunity for a detail-oriented, technically strong, and compliance-driven payroll professional to apply their expertise in Canadian payroll tax, statutory remittances, reconciliations, and year-end reporting while acting as a trusted SME and coach to the broader payroll team. Reporting to the Manager, Payroll, and working in a challenging and exciting environment within the Employee Services People Services, you will:

Requirements

• Strong experience in Canadian payroll tax, statutory compliance, remittances, and year-end reporting.
• Hands-on experience with payroll tax reconciliations, variance analysis, and resolving discrepancies across payroll and finance.
• Solid understanding of CRA, MRQ, DAS, CPP, EI, Workers’ Compensation, and provincial tax requirements.
• Detail-oriented, analytical, and comfortable interpreting legislation and applying it to practical payroll processes.
• Strong risk and controls mindset, with the ability to support audits, inquiries, and compliance reviews.
• Collaborative technical resource who can coach others, document processes, and help improve accuracy and efficiency across the team.
• Fluency in French and English, both written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Ensure accurate and timely compliance with CRA, MRQ, CPP, EI, provincial income tax, Workers’ Compensation, and other statutory requirements.
• Support and validate DAS submissions, remittances, and related payroll tax compliance activities.
• Produce and review compliance reporting, including PIER reports, and resolve discrepancies as needed.
• Perform and review payroll tax account reconciliations, including GL to statutory balance reviews.
• Investigate and resolve variances across payroll, finance, and statutory filings.
• Strengthen internal controls related to payroll tax, statutory reporting, and compliance risk mitigation.
• Support year-end reporting activities, including T4, T4A, RL-1 preparation, validation, amendments, and corrections.
• Act as a technical resource and coach to the payroll team, helping document processes and improve accuracy, efficiency, and knowledge.

Benefits

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical programs, pension and savings plans
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed