Description

Primary Job Purpose:

• The Payroll Officer is responsible for all Payroll support including new staff being entered into the system in a timely manner, updating superannuation details and accuracy on payroll transactions each fortnight for approximately 280 staff.

Duties:

Administration and Payroll

• Experience in Unipay is essential
• Payroll maintenance in system
• Support Managers with Pay run
• Superannuation maintenance
• Ensuring all payroll transactions are processed efficiently
• Collecting, calculating, and entering data in order to maintain and update payroll information
• Compiling summaries of earnings, taxes, deductions, leave, disability, and non-taxable wages and reporting on this
• Determining payroll liabilities by calculating employee federal and state income, social security and taxes
• Resolving payroll discrepancies

General

• Assisting the Teams with administration and payroll issues including but not limited to:
• Answering and directing phone calls the relevant person/department
• Monitor relevant emails, process, reply and action

Essential Knowledge and Skills

• Demonstrate ability to maintain high levels of confidentiality at all times
• Demonstrate capacity to build positive working relationships and communicate at all levels across a diverse demographic of internal and external stakeholders that ensures appropriate customer service outcomes
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to and utilise various computer applications including corporate information systems and MS Office applications to an intermediate or advance level.
• Demonstrate ability to organise and prioritise workload to ensure service and outcomes, administrative standards and expectations are achieved.
• Demonstrate ability to address issues and problem solve efficiently
• Previous experience in administration

Personal Qualities

• Friendly personable telephone manner
• Takes pride in personal presentation
• Confidentiality
• Provide attention to detail
• Advanced in Microsoft programs
• Handles tasks carefully and correctly - is thorough and exact in details
• Remains calm and effective in high volume work situations
• Demonstrates versatility in responding to guest requests and situations
• Good team player; contributes to and assists peers without being asked
• Has the aptitude and willingness for continual personal & professional development
• High levels of organisational skills
• Be pro-active and display initiative
• Professional

Core Capabilities

• 3-5 years of Unipay experience
• 3-5 years’ experience in administration
• Competent in Microsoft Office, Excel and Word in particular
• Analyzing Information
• Data Entry Skills,
• Attention to Detail,
• Confidentiality,
• General Math Skills and Financial Software experience of at least 1 year.