• Job Type: Fixed Term Full Time
• Category: Human Resources
• Location: Wellington City
• Date Advertised: 21-AUG-25
• Job Reference: MOJ/1880719
• Job Title: Payroll Officer (fixed-term)
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Ō PŪKENGA/SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

This is a fixed-term parental leave cover, so we will be looking for someone with previous payroll experience. If your experience looks a little different from what we have outlined and believe you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you!

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Payroll experience, data entry for payroll changes.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential matters.
• Good communicator both written and verbal.
• Ability to build and maintain positive stakeholder relationships and effective networks across the Ministry.
• Confident experience with MS Office, especially Outlook and Excel.

Previous experience with SAP Employee Central and Employee Central Payroll would be an advantage.

MŌ MĀTOU/ABOUT US

At Te Tāhū o te Ture - the Ministry of Justice, we’re committed to strengthening people’s trust in the law of Aotearoa, New Zealand.
The payroll team is part of People Experience. We work across the wider team to ensure the Ministry’s people to have a great experience at work. This begins before they start with us and goes right though until they leave us. We build and operate the people-related practices that form the experience of the people who work here, in the areas of organisational development, learning, employment relations and human resources. We also advise and support our leaders and employees as they do their jobs day-to-day. We’re a group of committed specialists who want to make a difference.
Joining Te Tāhū o te Ture means you will become part of an organisation that welcomes and supports people of all gender identities, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, disabilities and religions.

• Payroll experience, data entry for payroll changes.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential matters.
• Good communicator both written and verbal.
• Ability to build and maintain positive stakeholder relationships and effective networks across the Ministry.
• Confident experience with MS Office, especially Outlook and Excel