Payroll Manager

2 weeks ago

Sydney, Australia Downer Group Full time

**Ko te take ka parekareka e koe ki te mahi ki kōnei | Why you will enjoy working here**

Downer is committed to delivering excellence by ensuring our people have the environment and the means to be successful. We offer:

- Competitive Salary
- A Thriving head office in Wiri, with free parking
- Health care and Wellbeing benefits
- Flexible working
- Deals & Discounts from local and national retailers
- Whanau Scholarships
- Development programmes and ongoing career opportunities across NZ & Australia

**Te Kōwhiringa | The Opportunity**
The New Zealand Payroll Operations team provides finance-related support to Downer’s operating businesses. We believe that building the best team, with the right capability and structure, whilst simplifying our services to eliminate complexity, will result in the right customer experience.

As a Payroll Manager, you will join and lead a team of 25 professionals working collectively to ensure the efficient delivery of payroll services in accordance with Legislation, Company policies, business systems, and service-level agreements. We operate in a high-volume, manual payroll environment where we take pride in maintaining operational excellence.

Your day-to-day accountabilities will include;
- Manage the Company’s payroll function including processing payroll, processes, and procedures.
- Manage and support Team Leaders
- Manage compliance, ensure the payroll function is run in accordance with legislation, pay cycle requirements, applicable employment agreements, and company policy
- Manage the resolution of payroll interpretation issues and queries.
- Provide support and mentoring to payroll team members when dealing with payroll and business-related issues and queries.
- Maintain proficiency with relevant payroll law and offer advice and recommendations to management to ensure breaches do not occur.
- Manage involvement with IRD processes, ensure positive relationships with IRD are maintained
- Manage the relationship between Payroll and HR/Recruitment and their initiatives, to build a proactive and positive collaborative approach which provide a strong basis for process and systems improvements.Manage and analyse payroll data as required

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include;
- Maintain clear communication with customers and key business stakeholders.
- Active engagement with the business to build positive relationships.
- Support the relationship with the key business stakeholders.
- Triage escalations, working collaboratively with the functional leads to critically assess issues and work with them through to resolution (operational support as required).
- Support The Downer Standard through process review and documentation
- Identify areas of improvement, waste opportunities and work with the functional leads to executeManage service level agreement with customers

This is a Full-time, Permanent position based from Wiri, Auckland. Hybrid work arrangements are available to help with that work-life balance.

**Nga Pūkenga Motuhake | Important Skills**
- A practical and positive attitude, an interest in process improvement and the ability to build effective relationships and credibility with customers at all levels across the business.
- Sound understanding of NZ IR/ER law
- JDE/SAP or similar ERP as experienced user (5+ years).
- High volume data entry environment, preferred Shared Services
- People/ Team Management, workload management.
- Excellent communication, organisational and troubleshooting skills will serve you well.
- The ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Payroll Management experience within an organisation of 1000+ employees beneficialBe proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and have JDE experience (advantageous)

**Ko wai mātou | Our Organisation**

Want to know more about what it is like to work at Downer? Then head to our People Site.

**Me pēhea ki te tono | How to apply**:
We are committed to a safe working environment for everyone - all successful applicants will be required to undertake a pre-employment drug test, medical and a Ministry of Justice check prior to starting employment. If you need support with this requirement, please let us know.

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