Senior Payroll Specialist

1 month ago


Noosa North Shore, Queensland, Australia Richard Lloyd Accounting Recruitment Full time

Job Summary


This role provides an excellent opportunity for a seasoned Payroll Manager to join a highly reputable school with a rich history and a progressive approach to education.


The successful candidate will be responsible for the administration of the fortnightly payroll processing and payments, ensuring accuracy and timeliness, including the posting of leave applications and timesheet submissions.


The Payroll Manager will also be responsible for preparing accurate and timely payroll-related reconciliations, actual to budget variance analysis, FTE data, audit logs, and KPI reports for review by the Financial Controller, increasing transparency and facilitating effective decision-making at the Executive Level.


The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of payroll experience, strong tenure on their resume, and examples of their analytical and core accounting knowledge, including labour cost analysis, reports to support decision-making, automation projects, and other value-added achievements.


They will also have exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, and maturity and integrity to take full ownership of this role and support the leadership team and teaching staff alike.


Key Responsibilities



  • Administration of the fortnightly payroll processing and payments, ensuring accuracy and timeliness, including the posting of leave applications and timesheet submissions.
  • Prepare accurate and timely payroll-related reconciliations, actual to budget variance analysis, FTE data, audit logs, and KPI reports for review by the Financial Controller.
  • Ensure the payroll system accurately reflects different employee contracts and enterprise and workplace agreements.
  • Stay up to date with legislative changes and drive process improvement to enhance efficiencies and internal controls in relation to payroll data.
  • Provide inputs into third-party reporting obligations, including census and annual reports.
  • Provide advice to managers and employees on a range of industrial matters, including interpretation of the Agreement, determining pay levels, entitlements, etc.
  • Accurately prepare and calculate termination payments.
  • Ensure accurate and timely processing of PAYG & superannuation guarantee liabilities.
  • Manage year-end reconciliations and audit queries.
  • Ensure payroll-related balance sheet accounts are reconciled on a monthly basis.


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