Barbara Mehedyn
Payroll Manager
Langdon,AB
Summary
Accomplished manager with 20+ years of progressive experience in developing a highly compliant, organized, effective, and efficient team. Highly skilled in developing a team culture that is passionate for payroll and serving others, compassionate towards others and who interact with those around them dignity and respect. Know for a team that is aligned with the organization vision and mission statements.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Contractor
Robert Half
Remote
12.2025 - Current
- Current client - reporting to VP Employee experience, Analyzing and auditing payroll processes, benefit program and retirement plan processing.
- Audit group savings plans and present findings and recommendations.
- Data clean up and monitoring of retirement and benefit plan processing.
- Put process improvements in place by working with the Shared Services Pension manager and VP employee services.
- Collaborate with payroll team on processing document updates and best practices.
- Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
- Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
Manager, Payroll Services
Calgary Catholic School District
Calgary, AB
07.2022 - 07.2025
- Reporting to Director Total Compensation, led and develop 4 payroll coordinator and analyst through full cycle payroll monthly and bi-weekly processing in a multi-union and exempt staff environment of over 6,300 active employees.
- Developed and implemented processing improvements resulting in a half day of processing time improvements
- Coordinating with the Finance Team for payroll processing finalization.
- Continued understanding of ATA, CUPE, and Unifor Collective Agreements.
- Collaborating with Benefits and Pension team each bi-weekly or monthly pay cycle utilizing HRIS system Peoplesoft.
- Directed all payroll related year end processes (T2200, year end adjustments, T4A, T4).
- Led initiatives to improve seasoned payroll staff collaboration with People Services teams, finance, Labour relations, and client interactions
- Maximized performance by monitoring daily activities and mentoring team members.
Payroll & Invoicing Manager
NES Fircroft
Calgary, AB
05.2021 - 06.2022
- Reporting to Manager Finance, lead and manage 4 regional Canada team members and collaborating with an overseas payroll team while overseeing the full payroll cycle for bi-weekly, semi-monthly, and monthly contractors & employees totaling approximately 1300.
- Managed new team to achieve operational goals, while the company experiences exceptional growth levels.
- Developing working relationships with Operations including recruitment and sales.
- Development of process documentation for payroll team processes and systems.
- Continue to look for improvement opportunities and efficiencies for a mostly manual payroll process, utilizing Navision and Payworks systems.
Canada Payroll Manager
Baker Hughes Canada Company
Calgary, AB
03.2014 - 05.2020
- Reporting to North America Payroll Manager, managed 3 Payroll Canada team members while overseeing the full payroll cycle including the required governmental remittances, handling payroll for a union group, as well as salaried, hourly, and salaried non-exempt staff.
- Managed payroll processing for over 1,000 employees, ensuring accuracy and compliance with regulations.
- Reduced year end T4 preparation time by two weeks by establishing processes, schedules, status meetings, and specific assignment of tasks.
- Streamlined payroll processing to ensure timely and accurate employee compensation. Process time down from 3.5 days to 2 days.
- Successful transition of payroll function of Oilfield Equipment and Services Payroll of 563 employees without interruption of pay for the employees.
- Maintain professional working relationship with transitioning HR team which ensures internal policies are within multi-Provincial legislation.
- Managed the team through various restructuring initiatives while keeping morale up and continued performance improvement.
- Part of the team for successful transition of HR system of record from SAP to Workday Environment.
- Successful Transition of Canada payroll function for Canada processing to US Processing which ensured successfully training and hand off, and Payroll withholding remittance to ADP.
Reporting & Payroll Manager
Baker Hughes Canada Company
Calgary, AB
01.2014 - 03.2018
- This position reported to North America Enterprise Finance Organization. Managed 5 Payroll Canada team members as well 3 finance team members and reporting of actual results monthly, quarterly, yearly to the Global Reporting Group. Maintaining trust and an effective business relationship with in-country finance teams, HR, Benefits, and Directors was key to the success of the teams.
- Developed efficiencies in payroll reporting through excel training of team which lead to efficient payroll reporting and processing.
- Coaching my team to look at result throughout the month to ease the accelerated close.
- Managed the team through EFO restructuring while keeping morale up and continued performance improvement.
- Created how to documentation manuals for both finance team and payroll team to ensure efficient coverage of duties.
- Held Lunch and Learns for understanding your pay stub and T4 which lead to less confusion and questions by employees.
- Coaching my team to approach results with a “why” attitude to provide a more in-depth analysis to the Global Reporting team.
- Ensured successful handover to Malaysia team of all financial reporting duties while keeping deadlines and key tasks in focus.
- Led payroll processing for over 3,000 employees, ensuring compliance with Canadian regulations.
- Streamlined payroll reconciliation processes, reducing discrepancies and enhancing accuracy.
- Developed and enforced procedures for payroll audits, strengthening internal controls.
- Mentored junior staff on payroll systems, fostering knowledge sharing and skill development.
Education
Business Administration, Accelerated Accounting Program - courses completed up to the equivalent of Level 4 of the CGA program
Business Management Certificate -
Business Analysis Extension Certificate -
Skills
- Full cycle payroll development and processing
- Payroll compliance
- Payroll KPIs development and tracking
- System implementations
- Payroll year end processing
- Efficiency Identification
- Problem-solving
- Teamwork and collaboration
Accomplishments
- Collaborated with HRIS in the development of payroll reports to increase efficiency of payroll reviews and audits.
- Achieved 2 week decrease in payroll year end processing by implementing project calendar with milestones and weekly reviews.
Timeline
Contractor - Robert Half
12.2025 - Current
Manager, Payroll Services - Calgary Catholic School District
07.2022 - 07.2025
Payroll & Invoicing Manager - NES Fircroft
05.2021 - 06.2022
Canada Payroll Manager - Baker Hughes Canada Company
03.2014 - 05.2020
Reporting & Payroll Manager - Baker Hughes Canada Company
01.2014 - 03.2018
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology - Business Administration, Accelerated Accounting Program, courses completed up to the equivalent of Level 4 of the CGA program
University of Calgary - Business Management Certificate,
Mount Royal University - Business Analysis Extension Certificate,
Professional Associations
National Payroll Institute, PCP Certified, PLP in progress
Areas Of Expertise
Advanced Excel, Workday, SAP, Microsoft Office, Peoplesoft, ServiceNow, Fresh Service, Payworks, Sunlife – Benefits & Retirement, Navision