At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage fortnightly payroll processing and lead system transitions.
- Company: Join a community-focused not-for-profit organisation making a difference.
- Benefits: Salary packaging to boost your take-home pay and potential for extension.
- Other info: On-site role in Liverpool with excellent training and mentoring opportunities.
- Why this job: Be part of a transformative payroll project that impacts the community.
- Qualifications: Strong payroll experience and SCHADS Award knowledge required.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 $ per year.
Are you an experienced Payroll Specialist with a passion for projects?
Join a well-established community-focused organisation undergoing a significant payroll systems transition.
This is an opportunity to join a supportive finance function and play a key role in strengthening payroll capability and systems.
Our client is seeking an experienced Payroll Specialist to take ownership of a fortnightly payroll function supporting employees within a not-for-profit social care service provider.
The role has a strong technical focus, with SCHADS Award interpretation, payroll compliance and system implementation at its core.
You will also play a key role in the transition from Technology One to Employment Hero, ensuring payroll rules, processes and data requirements are accurately carried across ahead of go-live.
This is a 6-month fixed-term position, commencing ASAP, with potential for extension or permanency.
- Salary packaging available (increase your takehome pay)
- 6-month fixed term, potential to extend
- Fortnightly payroll, approximately 170 employees
- Technology One transitioning to Employment Hero
- Strong SCHADS Award knowledge essential
- Training and mentoring accounts officers
- Working with Children Check required
- Opportunity to support payroll transformation and process improvement
- Key details
- Liverpool | On-site, full-time, core days Monday-Thursday
- Salary packaging available (increase your takehome pay)
- 6-month fixed term, potential to extend
- Fortnightly payroll, approximately 170 employees
- Technology One transitioning to Employment Hero
- Strong SCHADS Award knowledge essential
- Training and mentoring accounts officers
- Working with Children Check required
- Opportunity to support payroll transformation and process improvement
Key responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end fortnightly payroll processing and reconciliation
- Apply SCHADS Award provisions across overtime, allowances and employee conditions
- Review and validate timesheets, payroll inputs and exceptions
- Complete payroll and superannuation reconciliations
- Resolve complex payroll queries and provide technical advice to managers and executives
- Lead the Employment Hero implementation, including process validation, testing and transition from the existing system
- Train and educate managers and Executive staff in the application of Employment Hero
- Develop payroll procedures and practical guidance for managers
- Provide technical support and mentoring to Accounting Officers
- Identify payroll risks, discrepancies and process improvement opportunities
About you
- Demonstrated end-to-end payroll experience
- Strong SCHADS Award interpretation capability
- Employment Hero experience essential
- Experience managing complex payroll calculations, allowances and overtime
- Strong reconciliation and payroll compliance skills
- Experience with payroll system implementation or process transformation
- Excellent stakeholder communication and the ability to translate payroll requirements for non-payroll stakeholders
- Confidence working autonomously and taking ownership of a payroll function
This role would suit a senior Payroll Officer or Payroll Specialist who wants to combine technical payroll expertise with systems implementation and process improvement.
abrs is Australia's only charity-owned, not-for-profit recruitment agency, with 100% of our net revenue returned to fund programs that support children, youth, and families.
When you work with abrs, you're engaging in an ethical recruitment process that directly funds vital programs in the community.
Our Commitment to Reconciliation abrs acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the land.
We are committed to working respectfully and in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, guided by the principles of self-determination.
We support the rights of children to remain connected to family, culture, and Country.
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