Salary Range: $105,513- $118,755 per annum pending experience
Tenure: Full Time, Permanent
Commencing Date: Monday 22 September 2025
Closing Date: Friday 19 September 2025 unless filled prior
Townsville Catholic Education supports a diverse region extending from Townsville to the Burdekin and Whitsunday regions in the South, North to Ingham and Halifax, South-West to Winton, and West to the border with the Northern Territory, encompassing Mount Isa and several small, isolated western towns and east to Palm Island.
Townsville Catholic Education provides a supportive, flexible working environment where care for the individual is an important part of our ethos. We employ motivated people who want to work together to produce excellent outcomes for our students. Our staff are recognised as being central to achieving our mission.
Townsville Catholic Education has standards of conduct for workers to maintain a safe and healthy environment for children. Our commitment to these standards requires that we conduct working with children checks and background referencing for all persons who will engage in direct and regular involvement with children and young people and/or adults-at-risk. The organisation is fully committed to child safety and has a zero tolerance to abuse of children or adults-at-risk.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Ensure HRIS design and operation aligns with legislation and industrial agreements
• Liaise with Aurion to manage system configuration and updates
• Audit data integrity and system accuracy through regular testing
• Recommend improvements to payroll and HR practices
• Educate teams on audit findings and system usage
• Provide payroll reporting and support operational efficiency
• Maintain organisational structure and workflows in Aurion
• Document processes, guidelines, and user manuals for system administration
• Monitor system changes and support process adjustments
• Build reporting capability across payroll and HR teams
• Maintain an issues register for HRIS-related updates
• Analyse complex HR/payroll systems for performance and compliance
• Support payroll operations during peak periods or staff absences
• Uphold Catholic values and contribute to a safe, respectful workplace
• Participate in professional learning and comply with all TCE policies

Townsville Catholic Education (TCE) is currently seeking a experienced Human Resource Information System Audit and Administrator. This is a Full-Time, Permanent role commencing on Monday 22 September 2025.
The Human Resource Information System (HRIS) Audit and Administrator is responsible for ensuring TCE’s payroll system is compliant with all relevant industrial agreements and legislation. The role will liaise closely with the Payroll Coordinator and Aurion configuration team to manage system accuracy and compliance in calculating employee’s payroll and storage of all human resource information.
The role will further conduct regular audits, data integrity checks and scenario testing, to ensure Aurion’s build and design is operating in line with relevant industrial agreements and legislation, and that data entered into the HRIS is accurate.
As the system expert, the role will demonstrate it’s analytical and quantitative skills to provide payroll reporting as required, whilst supporting and educating the broader payroll and HR team to develop their skills in system reporting.