Payroll Specialist

Modine Manufacturing Company is hiring a Payroll Specialist to join its team onsite in Calgary, CA. Modine has been engineering solutions for a cleaner, healthier world for more than a century, delivering climate solutions and performance technologies with a global footprint that includes operations around the world and a workforce of over 13,000 people. The Calgary role sits within this broader enterprise, offering a hands-on chance to help a large, distributed payroll operation stay accurate and compliant.

The Payroll Specialist is responsible for supporting accurate and timely payroll processing while ensuring compliance with company policies, employment standards and tax legislation. This role keeps payroll records up to date across multiple systems, validates timesheets and absence management, processes payroll transactions, and handles internal and external inquiries. It also assists with payroll reporting, journal entries and ROEs, balancing accuracy with efficiency across a busy payroll cycle.

If you enjoy working with numbers, keeping payroll organized, and solving payroll puzzles for a sizeable workforce, this could be a good fit.

Payroll rhythms in Calgary

Day-to-day, you’ll manage payroll in a high-volume environment, preparing, processing and verifying information for hourly, salaried and contract employees. You’ll review timesheets, attendance, overtime and pay adjustments to ensure everything adds up before deadlines pass. You’ll handle movements like hires, terminations, promotions, transfers and salary changes, and you’ll reconcile discrepancies when they appear. You’ll also validate external forms and work permits as needed, and you’ll be involved in onboarding large volumes of staff. When employees have questions about pay, deductions, benefits, vacation or taxes, you’ll provide clear answers and support to managers as they request information.

Must-have credentials

To be considered for this role, these core qualifications matter most:

• 2–5 years of payroll administration or payroll coordination experience
• Payroll certification (National Payroll Institute PCP designation in Canada) is required or working towards completing
• Experience processing payroll in a high-volume environment
• Strong knowledge of payroll legislation, taxation, and employment standards
• Intermediate to expert level in Microsoft Excel (Pivot tables and formulas a must), Word, and Payworks
• Experience with Payworks is preferred or familiarity with ADP or similar payroll systems

Nice-to-haves

These additional qualifications can help you stand out, though they aren’t required:

• A diploma or bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, human resources, business administration, or a related field is preferred
• Experience with ADP or other payroll platforms beyond Payworks

Pay, benefits and practical details

Modine is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. The company offers a competitive benefits package that could include paid vacation, short term disability, health, dental, vision, life insurance, and much more. Human Resources will provide more detail upon your hiring.

Advice for applicants

Lead your resume with the must-haves by placing your payroll experience and your PCP designation (or progress toward it) front and center, followed by a line about your 2–5 years in payroll and your hands-on work with Payworks in a high-volume setting.

When you describe your experience, quantify what you’ve done. Include numbers around payroll processed, the scale of onboarding you’ve handled, and how you maintained accuracy and met deadlines. Show off your Excel skills with concrete examples of PivotTables and formulas you’ve used to streamline payroll tasks.

Prepare for interviews by outlining how you’ve managed timesheets, attendance, overtime and pay adjustments, plus any experience dealing with complex tax rules and employment standards. Be ready with a scenario about a difficult payroll discrepancy and how you resolved it while keeping stakeholders informed.

Think of a smart question to ask about the role, for example: what payroll system is currently used day-to-day (Payworks or others) and how does the team collaborate with HR and finance during big onboarding waves?