My client is a national organisation undergoing an audit-driven payroll project. You will join a small but committed HR Services team supporting payroll operations for employees across Australia and New Zealand.
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About the Position
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Reporting to the HR Manager, this role will:
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- Perform reconciliation reviews, compliance and audit checks.
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- Ensure that payroll data accuracy, privacy and file-keeping is compliant with legislative requirements.
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- Audit payroll components (including leave balances, wage provisions, STI's, wage increases, etc.)
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- Escalate payroll risks, breaches or anomalies.
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- Maintain awareness of employment legislation and up-to-date-award/contract obligations, contributing to continuous-improvement payroll processes and audit readiness.
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About You
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- Demonstrated payroll experience in Australia (and ideally New Zealand) under modern awards or similar conditions.
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- Comfortable interpreting industrial instruments, employment contracts, and payroll/award rules.
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- Strong technical skills (Excel, Outlook, MS suite), with high attention to detail and analytical thinking.
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- Excellent verbal and written communication.
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- Capacity to manage multiple competing priorities, meet deadlines and work under some pressure.
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- Customer-service mindset and stakeholder-management skills; able to collaborate across HR, Finance and business units.
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- 3-month fixed-term contract with immediate start.
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- Inner-city location, 8 minutes walk from the nearest train station.
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- Hybrid: 1 day per week work-from-home.
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- Competitive, negotiable hourly / salary rate (reflective of experience and complexity).
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If you are a payroll professional who's keen to deliver clean, compliant payroll outcomes and dig into an audit and improvement project - we want to hear from you.
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Please apply with current resume in Microsoft Word format only (.doc or .docx). If you would like to have a confidential discussion, please contact Britt Molony on +61 (phone hidden), quoting reference JN -112025-41936. Want to know more about Davidson? Visit us at www.davidsonwp.com