About This Role
This role is for a detail-oriented analyst to manage end-to-end payroll activities, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with statutory requirements. It suits a candidate with strong organizational skills and a focus on customer service in a constantly changing environment.
Responsibilities
- Accurately process fortnightly and/or monthly payroll within specified timeframes and in accordance with statutory requirements
- Ensure all payroll information on the computerized payroll system is maintained accurately and prepare reports as required
- Calculate and process all salary and wages increases (including new hires and backpay if required), leave entitlements, other adjustments, and termination payments in accordance with statutory requirements
- Facilitate the electronic transfer of salaries and wages to financial institutions and other deduction recipients
- Maintain payroll information and records through appropriate systems, including vendor output; collect, calculate, and enter data
- Ensure on-time payment to employees (including Full & Final Settlement (F&F) processing), superannuation companies, and other agencies
- Automate processes where possible
- Prepare reports as required, including but not limited to summaries of earnings, taxes, deductions, leave, reconciliation files, and other statutory and discretionary additions and deductions
- Ensure statutory liabilities are met, including but not limited to payroll tax, income tax, fringe benefits tax, superannuation, and workers' compensation payments
- Balance payroll accounts by resolving payroll discrepancies
- Ensure payroll guidelines (policies and procedures) are accurate, up-to-date, and promote effective and efficient practices
- Maintain employee confidence and protect payroll operations by keeping confidential information
- Work to achieve the delivery of a cyclical calendar of deliverables
- Ensure ongoing compliance with regulations and legislation
- Ensure a high standard of customer service in line with agreed SLA (service level agreements)
- Ensure day-to-day reporting requirements are met; provide ad hoc reports to stakeholders in accordance with confidentiality requirements
- Establish effective working relationships with stakeholders
- Ensure Sarbanes & Oxley (SOX) and other control processes are followed
- Ensure all external and internal audit requirements are addressed in a timely and complete manner
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, or a related field
- 1-5 years of relevant experience in payroll processing or payroll operations is desirable
- Ability to maintain confidentiality
