Payroll Manager

at  Slalom Consulting

SLALOM AUSTRALIA

Slalom is a fiercely human consulting company focused on end-to-end business transformation enabled by technology. With 20-plus years of experience and operating in 47 markets around the world, Slalom teams have the autonomy to move fast and do what’s right for our clients, making us more personal and nimbler than traditional consulting firms. At Slalom, we offer variety, fulfillment, and balance. You can work with the world’s top companies, keep up with the latest technology, flex your skills across industries, pursue your life outside of work and, spend quality time with your family. After launching our Australian offices in January 2020, we are continuing to grow, and the below role is yet another opportunity to start your journey with Slalom and help us shape the future.

THE ROLE / THE TEAM:

Based in Melbourne, our newly created Payroll Manager position is responsible for the customer-focused, efficient delivery of payroll services and ensures the timely, accurate, and compliant delivery of payroll to our employees. They will develop solutions and further efforts toward continuous process improvements, internal controls, and employee experience. This individual will provide hands on execution, liaise between internal teams, external partners, our employees, third-party vendors, and develop their team to optimise operational excellence.
This role leads the Payroll team (two Payroll Analysts/Leads) that supports four countries in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. The role manages the implementation and operational workflow of administrative procedures as related to pay, tax, and time and evaluates pay practices to ensure they are accurate and comply with internal policies, practices and regional laws.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

• Accountable for the entire payroll process from start to finish. Responsible for timely and accurate processing, delivery and reconciliation of payroll. Directs and oversees the team’s production of regular and special payroll runs.
• Lead and mentor a team of payroll analysts - coach, teach, guide, motivate and inspire the team, set goals, assign projects, and ensure deadlines are met.
• Audit payrolls and support the Payroll team ensuring compliance, productivity, confidentiality, and efficiency.
• Partner with Global Payroll Managers to develop core and common processes and improvements to scale and drive efficiency.
• Oversee pre and post payroll procedures, troubleshoot issues, and implement corrective actions that eliminate the root cause of issues.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant reporting standards including tax filings and interfaces.
• Build relationships and collaborates with customers and HR partners, facilitate a customer-centered approach to resolve issues, apply service level agreements, and implement process changes as needed.
• Create, review, and maintain reliability and validity of department SOPs/manuals for payroll system and all payroll related procedures, policies, records, and standard business practices to ensure consistency in operations and maintain workflows across teams.
• Evaluate pay practices to ensure compliance with country-specific laws.
• Oversee tax and regulatory reporting and year-end payroll activities.
• Assist in the resolution of complex and escalated payroll issues and situations; may work with leadership to make final determinations on these issues.
• Establish and maintain internal controls and participate in periodic control audits by internal and external partners.
• Support payroll implementation as we expand into new APAC countries.
• Participates in various projects and initiatives as a business lead.
• Perform other duties as assigned.