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SkilldLabs

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11 - 50 employees

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

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HR Tech • SaaS • Recruitment

SkilldLabs is a Boston-based company specializing in providing highly skilled Latin American experts to North America’s top companies and tech startups. They focus on staff augmentation and talent acquisition, ensuring that each expert is a perfect cultural and technical fit for the client's team. SkilldLabs offers end-to-end solutions, including custom software development, product design, quality assurance, and full-stack development, with a strong emphasis on innovation and technology. Utilizing proprietary behavioral and psychological screening, SkilldLabs transforms hiring by delivering tailored, nearshore expert teams that seamlessly integrate into businesses and drive success. Their expertise spans various domains including AI, machine learning, and cloud engineering.

📋 Description

• Own and personally execute full-cycle payroll processing for the United States and Canada using UKG (our HRIS and payroll platform) • Manage payroll inputs, calculations, adjustments, reconciliations, and government remittances • Produce W-2s (US) and T-4s (Canada); manage quarterly and year-end payroll activities and tax filings • Provide exceptions and review/approve international payroll reports processed through CloudPay (our third-party provider) • Ensure compliance with federal, state/provincial, and applicable international payroll legislation • Produce payroll analytics and reporting for leadership, Finance, and workforce planning • Act as the escalation point for payroll and benefits questions from employees across all regions • Deliver clear, timely, and accurate support

🎯 Requirements

• Degree or diploma in HR, Business Administration, Accounting, or a related field • Minimum 8 years of payroll experience, with at least the past 3+ years in a lead or senior individual contributor role • Hands-on, processing-level experience with both US and Canadian payroll (Beyond payroll oversight or people management responsibilities). • Demonstrated ability to independently manage full payroll cycles, reconciliations, and year-end activities for both countries • Experience administering North American employee benefits (US and Canada) • Advanced Excel (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUPs, reconciliation models) • Strong working knowledge of IRS and CRA payroll rules and legislation • High numeracy, attention to detail, and ability to manage competing deadlines across time zones • Proficiency in English (written and verbal); Spanish is an asset

🏖️ Benefits

• Administer US benefits: medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, and 401(k) • Administer Canadian benefits: health and dental plans, and RRSP • Process enrollments, life events, open enrollment updates, and terminations • Maintain data accuracy across UKG and external benefit vendors