Payroll Officer

Primary Location

Melbourne, VIC
Job Description Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Payroll Officer to join Service Stream in our Collins Street office.
About the Role

Service Stream’s Corporate division are currently seeking a Payroll Officer to join our growing company. You will be responsible for facilitating the running, delivery and controlling of the payment of wages and salaries, and to ensure the accurate and timely maintenance of related payroll records whilst adhering to the relevant statutory legislation and Service Streams Policies and Procedures.

Nature of position: Permanent, Full Time

Location: Collins Street, VIC

Reporting Line: Payroll Manager

Key Responsibilities
- Payroll Processing
- Maintain award data and ensure wages payments comply with awards, OEA, arbitrated decisions and consent agreements.
- Delivery of the payroll function and ensure weekly, fortnightly and monthly payment of wages, salaries and invoices are completed in a timely manner.
- Ensure efficient completion of troubleshooting as required
- Update and maintain accurate employee Master File records
- Plan and implement all payroll changes in relation to new and amended industrial instruments.
- Process payroll batch functions if required
- Monitoring of Payroll Inbox
- Oversee the payroll helpdesk function and allocate workload received via payroll inbox to team members accordingly
- Respond to escalated payroll queries in an efficient and timely manner
- Miscellaneous Duties
- Post Pat deliverables including reporting to site, finance and other departments
- Conduct regular checks for terminations
- Check pay run variance report for discrepancies
- Review and update payroll processes on a regular basis to maintain continuous improvement

About You

To be successful in this role, you will possess excellent numerical and analytical skills alongside highly developed communication and interpersonal skills. We are seeking an individual with demonstrated ability to support and develop a team to deliver a key business service. You will also demonstrate and possess the following:

- Proven experience in senior payroll roles with considerable understanding of taxation and superannuation legislation to payroll activities
- Appropriate tertiary qualifications, ideally in a business, finance or accounting discipline
- Strong experience in a complex corporate or shared services environment processing high volumes of weekly, fortnightly & monthly pay runs
- Experience with Chris21 highly advantageous
- Experience with Workday preferred
- Experience with ‘month end’ processing such as Payroll Tax and Super processing is essential

About Us

Service Stream, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading national service provider to develop and operate Australia's essential communications, energy and water networks in the telecommunications, utilities and transport industries. We specialise in the design, construction and maintenance of new and existing networks, and deliver end-to-end engineering and asset management solutions on behalf of our blue-chip client base.
- Service Stream is an equal opportunity employer who believes diversity of thought, background and experience strengthens relationships and benefits our people, clients, and communities._
- We are committed to cultivate an inclusive and high-performing culture where our people thrive and are proud to bring their whole selves to work, inspiring a respectful and inclusive environment._
- Service Stream encourages and welcomes the opportunity for applicants to share their lived experiences._
- Service Stream does not accept any unsolicited resume referrals from external Recruitment or Labour Hire Companies._
Department

Finance

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