Payroll Adviser

**SYDNEY - CBD**

**THE OPPORTUNITY**
- We're looking for an experienced Payroll Adviser to join our Business Finance team full-time, on a 12 month contract based in our Sydney office.
- Day-to-day with other Payroll Advisers you will be responsible for:

- End to end monthly payroll processing for approx 1900 staff:

- Calculation of casual timesheets, leave, overtime, etc;
- Processing of leave requests and monitoring of leave accruals;
- Masterfile data entry;
- Verification of all data entry;
- Production of all payroll reports;
- Month end and year end Chris21 processes
- manual and termination payment calculations
- Monthly and ad hoc Chris21 and Excel reporting (in conjunction with HR Systems Consultant)
- Monthly overtime billing to Finance
- Monthly Payroll reconciliations
- Autonomously manage client base and attend to staff queries with highly developed customer service focus
- Statistical reporting - ABS and management
- Monthly superannuation reconciliations and payments to super funds
- Monthly PAYG reconciliations and payments
- Monthly payroll tax reconciliations and payments

**SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS**
- To be successful in this role, you will have:
- Minimum 5 years’ experience using Chris21 (desirable)
- Experience and knowledge of Award interpretation (ideally but not limited to understanding of the Legal Services Award and Miscellaneous Award)
- Good understanding of ATO and LSL national legislation
- Minimum intermediate level Excel spreadsheeting
- Ability to work without direct supervision
- Attention to detail - right first time & can do attitude
- Ability to process a large volume of work accurately and adhering to strict deadlines
- Ability to deal with sensitive issues on a confidential basis

**GROUP / TEAM**

Business Finance

**GROUP / TEAM DESCRIPTION**
- The Business Finance team works closely with management, practices, partners and business services teams to assist in driving its strategy, profitability, cash flow and growth.
- The team ensures an adequate financial control framework is maintained to safeguard the integrity of the firm's finances and plays a key role in mitigating financial and business risks. The team provides robust financial information internally and externally to enable decision making, effective operations and to help the firm meet its clients' needs and statutory requirements.
- As a member of the Business Finance team, whether you are in core finance, taxation, treasury or projects, you’ll play a critical role in the firm's success.
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What we offer**:

- At Herbert Smith Freehills we value flexibility. For most roles, we work an average of 60% of the time in the office, taking into consideration individual, team, client and learning needs.
- To continue to support our staff working from home as a part of Agile 60, we offer an allowance for home office furniture as well as IT equipment.
- We recognise that the success of our business and our clients relies on the skills, knowledge and ideas of all our people. We are dedicated to creating an exceptional experience for our clients and we value empathy, simplicity and commerciality.
- At Herbert Smith Freehills you will be part of a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus and highly engaged people are our differentiator. People at our firm come from a range of backgrounds and bring a wide variety of experiences and perspectives to their work with us. We strive to ensure that our inclusive environment means you feel valued and able to perform at your best by being your authentic self at work. We know that our future success not only depends on being innovative and progressive in the changing legal market but, most importantly, on our people feeling highly engaged in meaningful work.
- People join us to develop their careers and themselves. To support this we provide contemporary tailored learning programs, regular career conversations and a culture of feedback.**ROLE TYPE**

Business Services

**CONTRACT TYPE**

Maximum Term Contract

**WORKING PATTERN**

Full Time

**DIVERSITY & INCLUSION**

At Herbert Smith Freehills you will be part of a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus and highly engaged people are our differentiator. People at our firm come from a range of backgrounds and bring a wide variety of experiences and perspectives to their work with us. We strive to ensure that our inclusive environment means you feel valued and able to perform at your best by being your authentic self at work. We know that our future success not only depends on being innovative and progressive in the changing legal market but, most importantly, on our people feeling highly engaged in meaningful work.

We understand that you have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to create a working environment based on mutual trust and respect, in which you can perform at your best whilst maintaining sustainable balance across yo