Senior Payroll Officer

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Experience:

• 5+ years of strong knowledge of end-to-end payroll for Australia
• 1-2 years experience using iChris/iChris21
• Intermediate Excel skills with knowledge of VLOOK Up and Pivot Tables
• Previous experience with time and attendance systems

Key Responsibilities:

• To supervise the junior payroll team members and ensuring high quality and efficient payroll processing for AU and NZ
• Compile and maintain all necessary payroll information by supporting the payroll manager with preparation, completing reports, and maintaining appropriate records
• Participating in project work focusing on process improvement, compliance and team upskilling and development
• Facilitating training for venue managers, directors and head chefs around the time and attendance system or any other payroll related topics

Key Duties:

• Supervise and assist with administering weekly payrolls, weekly and month-end reconciliations and processing support as required
• Check and audit payrolls, ensuring legislative and award compliance, including compliance for all applicable taxes and superannuation requirements, together with all external reporting (including Single Touch Payroll submissions)
• Ensure all payroll accounts are balanced and any payroll discrepancies are resolved
• Support with internal reporting requirements such as weekly venue labour costs, annual leave, days in lieu, head office salary costs and ad hoc reports as required
• Manage weekly internal compliance reporting, including time & attendance records and compliance with related policies (such as biometric scanning, shift length and breaks)
• Review of calculations of termination payments
• Review of calculation and payment of any top-ups required under Better Off Overall Tests for annualised salary staff
• Payment and reconciliation of bonus payments
• Calculation, payment and reconciliation of payroll tax and group tax
• Administration, calculation, payment and reconciliation of all superannuation contributions
• Liaising with management and staff regarding pay enquiries
• Preparation and reconciliation of monthly General Ledger wage-related journals, liaising with Finance team as required
• Preparation and reconciliation of payment summaries (as required)
• Develop and update payroll reference materials, policies and procedures for payroll team members to use across all applicable systems
• Manage systems, liaise with external system providers, perform system upgrades and development testing and implementation
• Maintain appropriate staff records (to be retained for 7 years)
• Liaise with HR regarding new hires, terminations, remuneration and conditions of service
• Liaise with HR and WH&S Manager regarding workers compensation payments
• Maintain payroll records by reviewing and approving changes in employee details, job titles, award levels, exemptions, insurance coverage, savings or other deductions and venue/department transfers
• Maintain employee confidence and protect payroll operations by ensuring the team keeps information confidential
• Ad hoc reporting such as the WGEA report
• Payroll inbox support and ensuring accurate payroll advice is being provided to operational managers and employees within a timely manner
• Project work with support from the Payroll Consultant (examples include):
• STP2 roll out- Due 30 October 2023
• iChris21 system improvements and health check
• AU Pay Run Checklist- Review of processes, areas of improvement and addition of workflows with more detail
• TANDA upgrades and Award compliance health checks
• Team development- Upskilling, training, and knowledge transfer/cross training

How to apply?To be considered for this role, you must complete three steps:

1. Apply

   to this job
2. Complete the Skills Tests for this role
3. You must follow the link below and complete the testing assessments. The first assessment is a Skills Test, to assess your technical ability and numerical reasoning.
4. Complete the Psychometric Test for this role

To complete these tests, you must go to  https://es.peoplogicaskills.com/es/quiz?testId=f9692ab64f012083 and complete the assessments.

If you do not complete the assessments, then you will not be considered for the role.