Specialist, People Operations (12 month contract)

Role Overview

The People Systems & Operations team builds and runs the systems, workflows, and automations that support every stage of the employee lifecycle at Wealthsimple. This role will own core employee lifecycle transactions end to end, making sure every change is accurate, on time, and reflected correctly downstream in payroll and our other People systems.

What You Will Do

Own job change transactions in Workday, including compensation, title, and role changes; contribute to onboarding administration; prepare and validate employee data ahead of payroll cut-offs; generate employee letters and documentation accurately and consistently; audit your own work and the data around it, catching errors at the source rather than downstream.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have 2+ years of experience in People Operations, HR Operations, or HR administration, with hands-on experience transacting in Workday, including job changes, compensation changes, and onboarding. They will be detail-oriented, with a bias to action, and a scalable thinking approach.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in People Operations, HR Operations, or HR administration
• Hands-on experience transacting in Workday, including job changes, compensation changes, and onboarding
• Bias to action: you move work forward without waiting to be asked and take ownership of outcomes, not just tasks
• Strong attention to detail: you treat data accuracy as non-negotiable because you know every transaction touches someone’s pay, title, or career
• Scalable thinking: you fix the process, not just the instance, and notice when the same problem keeps showing up
• Working knowledge of how employee data flows into payroll, and the downstream impact of getting it wrong
• Comfortable managing competing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
• Clear, warm communicator with employees and managers at all levels
• Handle confidential employee information with discretion and sound judgment

Benefits

• Top-tier health benefits and life insurance
• Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business
• 20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick and mental health days per year
• 90 days away: work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year