Payroll & Employee Records Lead

6 months ago


Adelaide Region SA, Australia Santos Ltd Full time

Adelaide CBD Location
- Payroll and Employee Records Lead Opportunity
- Drive an agenda of business excellence

**About Us**

Santos is one of Australia’s biggest domestic gas suppliers, a leading Asia Pacific LNG supplier and is committed to supplying the critical fuels such as oil and gas in a more sustainable way through decarbonising projects such as the Moomba CCS project.
- For more than 65 years, Santos has been working in partnership with local communities, providing local jobs and business opportunities, safely and sustainably developing its natural gas resources, and powering industries and households.
- With a strong, low-cost base business supplying oil and gas and a clear action plan to develop cleaner energy and clean fuels, Santos remains resilient, value accretive and at the leading edge of the energy transition.
- With a global portfolio of operations across Australia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and North America, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.

**About the role**

This is an exciting time to join Santos and lead the Payroll & Employee Records Team. The People & Culture function has an ambitious agenda which includes the optimisation of our HRIS Systems and processes, delivering a new shared Services capability to the business and turning our efforts to deliver a customer focussed, market leading employee experience.

This role is key in leading and developing a team as we continue our journey to optimise payroll and related processes and to support the business as it transforms and grows. You will be a passionate, pragmatic leader who role models excellence, has the capability to engage with business stakeholders and thrives in a fast paced, complex environment.

As the leader of this team, you will be responsible for
- Delivering timely, efficient and accurate payroll for our Australian employees (field and office based) and expatriates
- Partnering with People Business Partners, and the broader business to support delivery of the People & Culture strategy
- Working with internal and external audit to ensure compliance with business processes, employment contracts, workplace agreements, relevant tax law and legislative requirements.
- Delivering sound processes and practice for managing system and process interfaces with external providers including banking, superannuation and salary sacrifice arrangements.
- Driving a change agenda to optimise payroll and employee records processes through innovation and automation
- Development and implementation of service metrics, trend analysis
- Management of key payroll vendors

**About you**

We are looking for someone with significant experience in payroll with a track record in managing a team, and who will commit to upskilling and developing your people.

We need a leader with the energy to deal with our business-as-usual activities, as well as identify, review and implement changes to those that will assist us to continue to improve how we operate and support the business and the function. You will possess:

- Outstanding stakeholder skills coupled with a collaborative approach
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Previous experience in identifying and delivering change programs associated with business improvements
- Cultural competence
- Perseverance and resilience with a solutions orientation
- Best practice mindset, with the capability and desire to drive continuous improvement

Ideally you will have experience in SuccessFactors or SAP, or an integrated HRIS system and have worked in a complex commercial organisation. Strong reporting capability and analytical skills to assist in making informed, data lead decisions are critical.



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