Senior Payroll Officer – Bokarina

• Full-time Permanent Role in Bokarina, Sunshine Coast
• Increase your take-home pay with Salary Packaging
• Hybrid Working Arrangements

About Us

Community Solutions Group makes a difference in people’s lives – supporting them to achieve their goals and working with them on their pathway to possibilities. We deliver a broad range of services focused on the employment, education, wellbeing and independence of individuals, families and communities across Queensland, Victoria and New South Wales.

Community Solutions Group are part of Endeavour Foundation, one of Australia’s largest employers of people living with disability where being inclusive and diverse is not just an aspiration, it is who we are! Fostering a diverse and inclusive culture is at the heart of everything we do and getting it right goes hand in hand with living our organisational values and our purpose of making possibilities a reality.

About The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Payroll & Administration Officer. As a senior member of the payroll team, this role supports the payroll lead to process pays accurately and provide regular route maintenance of the Workforce One Database, with a focus on data integrity and timely processing.

This role acts as a conduit, engaging with the team and stakeholders to ensure positive, efficient, and professional liaisons. This role ensures we provide a service that reflects our values and a great customer experience.

Duties include:

• Ensure the fortnightly payroll is processed accurately and within required timeframes, resulting in the correct payment for all employees.
• Ensure the accurate and efficient completion of payroll adjustments, off cycle payments, back payments, tax and super within required timeframes.
• Review payroll exception reports before payments are made to ensure payroll actions completed across the organisation are correct.
• Provide payroll information to external parties including Australian Bureau of Statistics, Centrelink, Department of Housing, Child Support Agency, and the Australian Tax Office in a timely manner.
• Prepare reports and correspondence and undertake other administrative tasks and payroll processes related to the full range of payroll functions.
• Create new employee master files and maintain complete, reliable, and upto-date payroll records and personnel files to ensure a high level of data integrity and adherence to processes and procedures.
• Process terminations and leave audits including end of contract, resignations, retirements, and redundancies in accordance with the relevant Enterprise Agreement, Awards, provisions, and entitlements.
• Administer and balance end of financial year reporting and prepare
• Payment Summaries and Australian Taxation Officer reports within required timeframes.
• Ensure salary sacrifice payments are uploaded to the organisation’s nominated salary packaging provider on time and in accordance with legislative obligations.
• Interpret legislation, awards, agreements, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance with legislative requirements and the correct payment for all employees.
• Contribute to the ongoing review of processes, practices, and work systems to identify opportunities to further refine services and processes and enhance the customer experience.
• Ensure that all payroll related enquiries are resolved in a timeframe that meets established service level agreements.
• Promptly identify and escalate priority issues and non-compliance to the Payroll Lead.
• Provide comprehensive payroll administration support that delivers efficient operation of the GTO service delivery.

About You

• Qualification/s in a relevant discipline or demonstrated relevant experience in a similar role.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills with the ability to accurately process large volumes of work whilst meeting strict timeframes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, to ensure clear and concise information and advice is provided.
• Demonstrated problem solving skills and decision-making skills to successfully identify problems, develop solutions, and implement these using a logical and systematic approach.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) and systems relevant to the role
• Demonstrated experience in end-to-end payroll processing within a medium to large organisation
• Experience in the interpretation and application of legislation including Awards, Agreements and Long Service Leave.
• Demonstrated sound working knowledge and understanding of Payroll, Taxation, Superannuation and Portable Long Service.
• Experience working in a fast paced and high-volume position.
• Experience processing end of month reconciliations.
• Experience with PeopleSoft highly desirable.

Benefits and Perks

• Package up to $15,900 of your annual salary tax free, and additional $2,650 for meal and entertainment expenses.
• Use your pre-tax income to purchase a new or used car, saving on both the purchase price and running costs.
• Discounts on Corporate Private Health Insurance, select Kia vehicles and discounted kitchen appliances.
• Supportive Induction and Learning Opportunities
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Reward and Recognition Program.

Intrigued? We’d love to hear from you. Please click “Apply Now” to submit your application and join #TeamPossible today!

Community Solutions encourages applications from people of all ages, nationalities, abilities, and cultures. This includes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, CALD (Culturally and Linguistically Diverse), the LGBTQI+ community, and people with disability. We value inclusivity and are committed to adjusting our recruitment process to ensure accessibility and support of an applicant’s needs.