Payroll Officer

**Payroll Officer - full time hybrid role - 2 days from the office - 3 days WFH**

We have a fabulous opportunity for you to join the UGL payroll family of 24.

This is a full time hybrid role where you’ll work 2 days from the office in North Sydney and 3 days from home. We offer a beautiful office environment with a fully equipped kitchen on every floor and comfortable seating where you can catch up with colleagues over lunch. Our payroll is processed digitally with SAP is at the core along with Kronos and ServiceNow. Our payroll team love it so much some of them have worked here until retirement When the team is in the office there always seems to be an excuse to celebrate or homemade cuisine to share

**About the role**

The payroll team at UGL follows best practice and is segregated into 3 distinct teams, data management, payroll processing and payroll accounting. Based in the payroll processing team you will be responsible for ensuring everyone is paid the correct amount, at the right time.

The role involves essentially everything and anything that relates to paying our workers. To include income protection, workers compensation and manual payments, uploading payslips, weekly reconciliation and submission of payment summaries via STP and calculation of termination and redundancy quotes. You will work on SAP and solve payroll tickets issued via ServiceNow and you’ll get to liaise with our friendly recruitment and P&C teams to solve payroll queries.

**The opportunity**

We employ predominantly blue-collar workers based on different project sites across Australia, with different site uplift allowances, EBA’s, LAFHA and specific client-based agreements - you can see how the role can get a bit complex and varied Some of our payrolls have over 2,500 employees and we often pay 10,000 workers during the month. Don’t worry, to start you off, we’ll assign you to one of the smaller payrolls until you’re ready to tackle something larger.

**Key responsibilities**
- Ensure compliant, efficient and effective delivery of payroll services
- Ensure all net pay transactions are transmitted through our online bank with appropriate authorisations
- Fully utilise SAP to verify and ensure correct authorisation has been achieved
- Assist the Payroll Manager with UAT/data cleansing/ad hoc projects

**About you**
- Substantial experience as a Payroll Officer within a high-volume payroll environment
- Experience processing payroll for blue collar workers to include an understanding of EBA's

**What we offer**
- 16 weeks paid parental leave for the primary carer
- Hybrid working environment working 2 days in the office and 3 days at home
- Discounts to 100’s of high street retailers to include supermarkets, department stores, motoring & petrol, home & gardens, families & babies, education & books, computers, electronics, travel entertainment, and finance & insurance.
- Individual development plan for career progression and ongoing training
- Complimentary salary continuance insurance, confidential counselling services for you and your family and a wellness program that rewards you with cash for exercise

**About Us**

UGL is a well-known and respected for providing end-to-end engineering, construction and maintenance services within rail and transport, communications and technology systems, oil and gas, power, renewables and resources, water and defence markets. UGL partners with some of the world’s largest blue-chip companies and government agencies, private enterprises and public institutions. We are a member of the CIMIC Group of companies.

At UGL, we value diversity - in the backgrounds, ideas, work styles and perspectives of our team. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and strongly encourage people with disability, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people, mature aged workers and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.
- Please note that relevant screening checks will be conducted as part of the recruitment process. These may include a national criminal history check and for you to undergo pre-employment medical assessment including drug and alcohol screen._

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**Discipline**: Payroll Officer

**Primary Location**: Australia-NSW-North Shore & Northern Beaches

**Work Type**: Full-time