Payroll Manager

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Detail information about job Payroll Manager. Terms and conditions vacancy

Full-time  - 35 hours per week

NCC1849

Newcastle City Council has an exciting opportunity for a Payroll Manager to join our People & Culture team.

Utilising your skills you will drive the payroll function to the next level including the management of day to day functions and ongoing reviews to improve efficiencies, processes and controls. Through your experience you will mentor, educate and lead a team of payroll professionals with a focus on providing proactive and timely customer service, knowledge sharing and building capacity both within the team and other key stakeholders.

As the Payroll Manager you will plan and coordinate the activities of the Payroll team to deliver:

• Fortnightly payroll in accordance with all relevant agreements;
• Payments to staff, ATO, superannuation and other organisations, prepared and processed accurately and in accordance with timing agreements;
• Month end processing;
• End of Financial Year;
• Routine maintenance and auditing of payroll data;
• Annual projects such as gross salary updates, system upgrades and reviews, audits.

To be successful in this job you will have:

• Tertiary qualifications in Business, Commerce or Accounting and/or extensive payroll management experience in a medium sized organisation.
• Demonstrated ability to manage the day to day payroll operations environment using a computerised system for processing timesheets, financial information, electronic document management and employee information management including compliance, governance, risk management, time constraints, functions, tasks and challenges.
• Demonstrated experience in payroll function business partnering at a senior level to create and maintain effective relationship with key stakeholders and provide financial analysis, trend analysis, problem solving and direction on payroll and remuneration payment techniques to maximise service unit results and deliver operational efficiencies.
• A strong communicator with both written and oral skills, able to present ideas in a user friendly manner to ensure understanding for non-technical stakeholders. Self-motivated and actively seeks constructive feedback to improve payroll functions.
• Demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills in a fast paced work environment, ensuring open communication with key stakeholders by providing ongoing information.
• Strong knowledge of relevant legislation including superannuation, both defined benefit and accumulation and taxation.
• Demonstrated experience, greater than 3 years, managing a team within a payroll or similar operations environment.
• Demonstrated experience in interpreting Award, Enterprise Agreements, policy and procedures.
• Strong analytical skills including the ability to identify anomalies or issues with payroll data and proven aptitude to resolve these issues.
• Experience in development and management of budgets and service plans.
• Demonstrated business analysis skills to create, analyse and interpret complex spreadsheets to assist in the formulation and analysis reports of data to internal and external stakeholders for governance/compliance review, budget compilation, workforce and/or financial forward estimate modelling.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality in a highly sensitive environment.

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Newcastle City Council proudly promotes the principles of Equal Employment Opportunities and fosters a culture of diversity to represent the community of our Local Government Area.

All candidates will be assessed against the selection criteria outlined in the position description.  Suitable candidates may be placed on an eligibility list for future identical positions for a period of 12 months.

You must have the right to live and work in Australia to apply for this job.

Application Closing Date:  Sunday 29 July 2018, 11:59pm.

Remuneration:  $103,446 + 9.5% Superannuation per annum for a 35 hour week.