Adviser, Payroll Tax & Accounting | Conseiller(re), Fiscalit de la paie et comptabilit

Advisor, Payroll Tax & Compliance

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.

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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:

• 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.

About you

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• You have strong experience in Canadian payroll tax, statutory compliance, remittances, and year-end reporting.
• You bring hands-on experience with payroll tax reconciliations, variance analysis, and resolving discrepancies across payroll and finance.
• You have a solid understanding of CRA, MRQ, DAS, CPP, EI, Workers' Compensation, and provincial tax requirements.
• You are detail-oriented, analytical, and comfortable interpreting legislation and applying it to practical payroll processes.
• You bring a strong risk and controls mindset, with the ability to support audits, inquiries, and compliance reviews.
• You are a 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. Rio Tinto is a global company and the duties of this position may require daily collaboration with colleagues, teams, or partners based outside Quebec

What we offer

Be recognized for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you've helped the world progress.

• 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

About Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals, and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive.

We have been mining for 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can't do it on our own, so we're focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win situations and meet opportunities.

Respect and Inclusion At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA2 community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.