Recruiting senior managers, board members, and director-level professionals to drive business success and elevate performance across your organisation.
The Executive division of Portfolio Payroll Canada is dedicated to placing Management and Director level employees within the payroll arena. Our Consultants draw upon a wealth of senior management recruitment experience and a superior understanding of the payroll market.
Each executive search consultant provides a bespoke approach tailored to your specific strategic and commercial needs, ensuring the selection of candidates with the skillsets and leadership qualities to add measurable value to your business. Our approach combines market-leading precision with cost efficiency, offering a superior recruitment process compared to traditional search firms.

Cost-effective executive recruitment designed around you
Our executive payroll recruitment service is tailored to address your leadership, cultural, and technical requirements. We create customised search strategies, develop precise job descriptions, and offer valuable market insights alongside benchmarking analysis to ensure a streamlined and effective hiring process. From the initial search to candidate shortlisting and interviews, we provide a transparent and actionable timeline.
With our extensive payroll expertise and strong connections to top talent, we deliver personalised shortlists at the pace of contingency recruitment. Our approach integrates multiple strategies such as database searches, targeted headhunting, advertising campaigns, referrals, and social media outreach to expedite the selection process and help you secure the best payroll professionals before your competitors.
Roles we recruit for
We recognise that recruiting senior and executive-level payroll professionals requires a highly specialised approach. Identifying candidates with the vision, management skills, and strategic expertise to drive organisational success is at the core of our process.
Our consultants possess extensive experience in executive recruitment and a deep understanding of the payroll sector, enabling them to expertly address the unique challenges of sourcing top-tier talent. Leveraging their industry knowledge and advanced search techniques, they identify candidates who not only fulfil the technical and operational demands of the role but also align seamlessly with your organisation’s culture and long-term goals.
Our approach to Senior-level appointments provides you with an Executive search service whilst benefiting from the cost-effective fee structure and speed of service of contingency recruitment.
Roles our executive team recruit for include:
- Global Payroll Manager
- Head of Payroll
- Payroll Director
- Payroll Operations Manager
- International Payroll Manager
- Group Payroll Manager

Case studies
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I have used recruiters in the past to assist with different roles, but the calibre of people was not at the level we needed. With Portfolio, where they have a specialist team only dealing with payroll specialists, it was the best option for us
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Other recruitment companies were not listening to our requirements. We were being passed CV's that did not match the brief. However, the consultant we worked with at Portfolio Group listened, and then used their expertise to give us candidates that aligned with the skills and personality we were looking for.
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Portfolio always ensure we have high quality candidates put in front of us during the recruitment process. These candidates have been vetted, ensuring they have the right qualifications & required expertise to understand our needs & the complexities of the systems that they are coming to work on.
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I was impressed by how quickly and efficiently the process worked. We had a call on Wednesday, I had 6-7 CV’s to select by Friday, and I was interviewing and had made the decision by the following Wednesday. That speed was so essential for this role, given how critical it was.
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Portfolio Procurement has a good understanding of the skill set required to be successful at the business. Having worked with your team for the last 4 years I know and trust the quality of the CV’s that are shared.