Description
Our client, a municipal organization, is looking for an Accounting Technician – Payroll (implementation of new system) for a 6-month assignment.
Salary: $27.56
Work location: Trois-Rivières
Shift: Day, 35 hours per week (open to hybrid mode)
Reporting to the project manager and working closely with the person
responsible for payroll implementation (ECP lead), the incumbent will contribute
to the implementation of the new payroll system (ECP), integrated with SAP.
They will be dedicated exclusively to the implementation and stabilization of the payroll system.
Their main mandate will be to execute and document tests, validate results,
support data quality, and contribute to the documentation of
new processes, based on scenarios and conditions defined by those
responsible for business content (payroll expert/ECP lead).
Main responsibilities
- Functional support for payroll system implementation
- Collaborate with the ECP lead, project team, and external consultants in
system implementation activities related to SAP.
- Familiarize yourself with the organization's payroll rules and specificities to fully
understand the scenarios assigned to you.
- Apply the guidelines and decisions made by the designated individuals (payroll business expert, management, consultants) in testing and validation.
- Test preparation and execution
- Prepare the data sets required for the defined test scenarios (test employee files, schedules, bonuses, payroll situations, etc.).
- Perform functional tests (SIT), user acceptance tests (UAT), and parallel tests in accordance with the plans provided.
- Perform functional tests (SIT), user acceptance tests (UAT), and
parallel tests in accordance with the plans provided.
- Enter or check the required data and record the results in a structured manner
(test grids, tracking tables, validation evidence).
- Validation of results and quality control
- Verify payroll results (earnings, deductions, benefits, banks,
contributions, taxes, etc.) by comparing them to expected results.
- Participate in parallel payroll tests and perform numerical reconciliations
using office tools, particularly Excel.
- Report discrepancies or inconsistencies to the responsible persons and, where
relevant, formulate hypotheses to explain them.
- 4. Anomaly management and corrective action follow-up
- Document detected anomalies (context, data, steps taken, discrepancies
observed) in the tracking tool provided by the project team.
- Participate in retesting and regression testing cycles after corrective actions have been applied
and update test grids as needed.
- Data validation and migration support
- Perform checks and reconciliations between data from the old system and data loaded into the new system according to the guidelines received.
- Identify discrepancies or inconsistencies and report them to the responsible persons;
contribute, as needed, to the updating or correction of test data or
pre-production data.
- Documentation of processes and tools
- Write and update working and reference documents (validation guides, test templates, checklists, memos).
- Document test steps, results obtained, and lessons learned to facilitate test recovery and future understanding of the rules applied.
- Support for go-live and stabilization
- Participate in go-live preparation activities by performing additional validation tests.
- Provide functional support to payroll and HR teams during the first payroll cycles in the new system and contribute to any adjustments required during the stabilization period
