About Us

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Marea (pronounced ma·rè·a) means "tide" in Italian. Navigating the changing tides is the perfect metaphor for our ever-changing business landscape.

Our company was founded in August 2020 by Tanya Jones, building on her extensive experience leading multiple HCM project implementations and overseeing day-to-day HR and Payroll system operations as an HRIS Director at a leading Alberta company, ATCO Ltd. Tanya worked at ATCO in progressively senior roles for almost 13 years.

In October 2020, Rinette Yeo-Church and Olivia MacDonald joined Tanya to complete payroll system testing for the Saskatchewan Health Authority's Oracle HCM implementation (58,000 employees). The Marea team performed payroll system testing until October 2022, testing very complex business requirements and collective agreement provisions. 

In November 2022, Joanne Gaboury joined Marea Inc. for a new Oracle HCM project with the Government of Saskatchewan. Over the course of 15 months, the Marea team completed testing in the HCM Security, Core HR, Absence Management and Payroll modules, in addition to completing data conversion analysis and validation. 

In May 2024, all 4 returned to the Saskatchewan Health Authority and supported their go-live in June, and provided post go-live Production support and training for the SHA and their affiliate Payroll teams. 

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• As the Program Manager or Project Manager, Tanya has lead business critical Payroll Outsourcing, Oracle Cloud HCM & Kronos and Salesforce eCommerce implementations – from design, development, testing, data migration, integration development, change management, training and go-live. 

• The HR Functional Analysts at Marea Inc. have worked on Oracle Cloud HCM and Kronos (now UKG) implementations, as well as operational Payroll. The team has extensive subject matter expertise in Core HR, Benefits, Payroll, Time & Labour and Absence modules in Oracle HCM. They have participated in multiple test cycles, including the creation of test plans, reviewing and executing test scripts, completing data conversion mapping, functional integration testing and preparing documentation.