Senior Payroll Officer 18 month contract

at  Grant Thornton

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

The role will suit someone with the following skills, experience, and attributes:

• Previous experience as a Senior Payroll Officer with remuneration and benefits.
• Experience with full end-to-end payroll experience
• Preceda and Workday knowledge is preferred but not essential
• Excel skills
• Self-motivation and a results-orientation with a strong customer service ethic
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Effective time management and self-organisation skills
• Ability to work autonomously and in teams
• Ability to work collaboratively
• Business process improvement focus (quality management, analysing information and problem solving experience)
• Attention to detail
• Strong problem solving skills

If you’re interested in this role but don’t feel that you match every single one of our requirements, we would still love to hear from you and explore the unique skillset and attributes that you can bring to the team.

ABOUT THIS ROLE

We are looking for an experienced Senior Payroll officer with End-to-End experience working with a payroll of more the 1200 to join our Finance team in an 18 month contract with a view to extend. The Senior payroll officer will have exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to engage with all staff whilst fosters a culture of collaboration and inclusion.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assist the coordination of Payroll function to ensure timely and accurate processing of monthly and off-cycle payroll and other payroll transactions.
• Timely resolution of business queries and issues identified.
• Provide reports to business.
• Ensuring compliance with all relevant legislative requirements with regards to Payroll Tax, PAYG, Superannuation and other aspects of payroll
• Assisting in the preparation of annual returns
• Proactively identify risk areas and work with team to establish solutions to address risk.
• Collecting, calculating, and entering data in order to maintain and update payroll information.
• Resolving payroll issues
• Employee record maintenance
• Maintaining Duties to assist the Finance Manager and Head of Financial Accounting Operations
• Working closely with People and Culture and the Finance team

The role will suit someone with the following skills, experience, and attributes:

• Previous experience as a Senior Payroll Officer with remuneration and benefits.
• Experience with full end-to-end payroll experience
• Preceda and Workday knowledge is preferred but not essential
• Excel skills
• Self-motivation and a results-orientation with a strong customer service ethic
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Effective time management and self-organisation skills
• Ability to work autonomously and in teams
• Ability to work collaboratively
• Business process improvement focus (quality management, analysing information and problem solving experience)
• Attention to detail
• Strong problem solving skill