Great chance to secure that Permanent Part-Time Payroll Manager position you have been looking for. Part-time roles are hard to find and to succeed in this one, you will need to bring your hands-on, stand-alone payroll experience and your passion for thinking critically and problem solving, to this high profile community focussed and reputable organisation.

Your Opportunity

This role will manage the payroll end to end, as the stand-alone payroll specialist with close links to the Finance and HR teams, and the broader business. It is a fantastic opportunity to showcase your skills in providing a high quality payroll service across the business.

You will ensure the payroll is accurate, timely and compliant with relevant awards and industry regulations.

You will run the fortnightly payroll for around 150 permanent and casual staff, using MicrOpay. This will include managing pay day superannuation, setting up new employees, dealing with leave entitlements and terminations and resolving issues through your ability to listen, interpret, analyse and resolve payroll anomalies.

Reporting to and working closely with finance, the role also requires an ability to manage the accounting side of payroll, from month end reporting and payroll reconciliations to budgeting, forecasting and payroll data analysis and preparing and lodging statutory payroll reports, including Single Touch Payroll (STP). You will also work on ad hoc audits and other tasks and projects within the finance team, as needed.

You will work closely with HR on such things as workforce planning and salaries, budgets and variations.





You will need to quickly pick up, interpret and implement complex Multi-Enterprise Agreements (MEA) so proven ability to do this, is essential to succeed in the role and to being able to provide MEA expertise to the organisation.

You will pride yourself on maintaining confidentiality and controls and meeting deadlines. Also essential is your focus on attention to detail and accuracy and your ability to report on this and use your problem solving and communication skills to resolve any issues as they arise.

Your Profile

You are searching for a Part-Time role and you are a Payroll Specialist who can manage end to end payroll, ideally with education industry experience, who is ideally looking for a 3 day a week role, with a great team and organisation.

NOTE: Working 2, 3 or 4 days a week will potentially be considered for the right candidate.

You must:

- Offer strong MicrOpay (or similar) experience.
- Have Multi-Enterprise Agreement (MEA) experience, ideally in the education industry and if not, then a proven ability to interpret and apply industry specific enterprise agreements.




- Have proven ability to do year end STP reporting using MicrOpay and an ability to work with auditors and the broader finance team throughout the year.
- Be able to hit the ground running, bringing your specialised experience managing a payroll, end to end.
- Have a curious and continuous improvement mindset.

To enjoy this organisation's culture and succeed in this role, you must have strong communication skills, be a critical thinker who can add value and solve problems, have great attention to detail and be down to earth and able to build relationships quickly and of course, have a passion for all things payroll.

Your Benefits

Excellent chance to show your Payroll prowess in that Part-time role you have been looking for.

- You will join a high energy team, located in the Inner West (with on site parking) and once settled, hybrid work arrangements on offer.
- A clear and effective hand over will be offered to enable a successful transition.
- Salary guide is $100,000 - $130,000 plus super pro-rata, depending on experience. (Prorated for the days worked).

Only apply, if you are happy with an Inner West location, working part time, on site initially and then with some flexibility for hybrid.

If this sounds like you and part-time suits your current life style, and you have the complex payroll specialist skill set we need, including MEA ability, get in touch asap so we can get you set up to commence this exciting new role ASAP.

How to Apply

Please follow the apply link above or below or contact Karen Ryan OR Trisha Roberts by phoning 61 2 7202 3990

Please include a word version of your resume in your application.

📌 Payroll Manager | Permanent Part-time (Sydney)
🏢 Agile Recruitment
📍 Sydney