Payroll Compliance Specialist

**Payroll Compliance Specialist**:

- Job ID- 930460- Job Type- Permanent Full Time- Location- Australia - Brisbane- Categories- Accounting / Tax / Treasury- Applications close- 25 Sep 2024 E. Australia Standard Time**Make your mark with Thiess**

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**About the role**

Are you a detail-oriented professional with a passion for payroll compliance and a keen eye for accuracy? Thiess is seeking a dedicated Payroll Compliance Specialist to join our dynamic team. In this crucial role, you'll be the guardian of our payroll processes, ensuring they align seamlessly with legal, regulatory, and company standards. Your expertise will be instrumental in conducting thorough audits, analysing complex payroll data, and identifying discrepancies. As a proactive problem-solver, you'll not only pinpoint issues but also recommend innovative solutions to enhance our payroll operations. If you thrive on the challenge of maintaining impeccable payroll integrity and have a talent for turning data into actionable insights, this could be the perfect opportunity for you to make a significant impact at Thiess.

**Additionally, you will**:

- Ensure payroll compliance through monitoring, auditing, and analysing processes, implementing corrective actions, and staying updated on relevant legislation and regulations.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to align payroll compliance processes, support the development of policies and procedures, and maintain governance documents on the Thiess Governance System (TGS).
- Analyse complex pay queries, provide timely resolutions, and identify process improvement opportunities to drive continuous improvement and automation throughout the end-to-end time & attendance / payroll process.
- Support payroll leaders with reports, reconciliations, and audits, while testing the efficacy of automated and manual controls to mitigate compliance risks.
- Develop detailed process maps and work instructions for the payroll function, and deliver regular training and upskilling programs for payroll team members and site/HR personnel as required.

**About you**

You are a detail-oriented payroll professional with a strong understanding of payroll and time and attendance systems, capable of configuring them to meet business needs. Experience with Oracle HRIS and/or Preceda payroll is a plus. You excel at analysing data and trends to generate actionable insights and have a solid grasp of the risks associated with payroll operations, implementing effective mitigation strategies.

Your expertise in interpreting legislation, Awards, and Enterprise Agreements ensures compliance through appropriate systems configuration and process design. With a working knowledge of the Fair Work Act and other relevant regulations, you stay current with industry standards. Your exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, combined with strong communication and interpersonal abilities, enable you to engage effectively with stakeholders and drive continuous improvement in payroll processes.

**Additionally, you have**:

- Business and/or HR Degree, or equivalent qualifications / experience
- 2 to 5 years' experience in E2E payroll management in medium / large organisations
- Demonstrated experience in working in a similar payroll compliance role
- Experience dealing with highly complex payroll issues
- Proficient in MS Office, including MS Excel to Intermediate standard (minimum)

**What Thiess can do for you**
- Help to build on your career, offering diverse opportunities to expand your skill set
- Flexible working arrangements
- Recently renovated corporate head office located in South Bank, Brisbane
- Health & wellbeing programs
- On-site gymnasium
- A range of corporate discounts, including health insurance (Medibank), travel & retail products

**About us**

Thiess works with clients in Australia, Asia and the Americas in the dynamic field of open-cut and underground mining.

The pioneering spirit of our founders - the legendary Thiess brothers - is our legacy, and inspires our vision to harness the power of people and technology to drive sustainable change.

At Thiess, you will have the opportunity to play a part in the global energy transition. We are growing our commodities portfolio to include metals and minerals critical to the energy transition, and developing services to enable sustainable mining.

We’re creating a culture of curiosity, knowledge-sharing, and continuous learning - supporting our people to contribute to Thiess’ success and continued growth in sustainable mining.

We’ll support you to hone your skills and develop new ones, take on challenges and grow, through mentorship, co