Payroll & Finance Assistant

At **Lives Lived Well **, we’ve been treating and supporting people whose lives are affected by alcohol and other drugs for over 50 years. We also support people with mental health and gambling concerns and those transitioning from correctional centres. We’re growing fast and building a reputation as a trusted, innovative provider, focused on clinical excellenceand we’d love you to be part of it.

If you share our belief in recovery, think in a curious and critical way, and thrive on a busy environment, learning and change, join us and do your best work here

**Your opportunity
You will join an impactful Finance team that is well established and recognised by our internal stakeholders, and which is deeply committed to supporting our workforce.

In this position you will be assisting our current Payroll Team with the end-to-end processing of a large, multi-site and multi-award fortnightly payroll. You will be required to take the lead in this role at times when the current team is unavailable and is therefore a great opportunity for someone keen to expand their payroll and financial accounting experience.

We currently employ over 500 staff who are paid on a fortnightly basis and are a growing with services currently set up in QLD, NSW, and South Australia.

**Your key duties and responsibilities in this position will include**:

- Assist with timely and accurate processing of end-to-end payroll including salary packaging.
- Respond to staff payroll queries in a timely manner.
- Assist the Payroll Officer with preparing reports as required
- Participate in organisation-wide collaborative planning activities and other meetings
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of systems and processes ensuring services meet professional and industry standards and project work as required Assist the broader finance team with tasks as required from time to time.

This is a full-time, ongoing role based in Spring Hill Brisbane CBD and would suit a recent graduate.

The base remuneration for this role is $63,000 to $67,000 per annum, depending on knowledge, skills, and experience, plus superannuation, leave loading, Long Service Leave via Qleave and 5 additional days of paid Wellbeing Leave.

You will also have the opportunity to take advantage of salary packaging to increase your take home pay.

**What you’ll bring**

To succeed in this role, there are some essentials you’ll need:

- Essential: _
- Bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, or finance stream or other relevant qualification and or other combination of relevant experience and qualifications.
- High attention to detail, accuracy, and ownership of your work.
- Confident and motivated to learn wage award interpretation, employment contracts, accounting standards and other relevant legislations.
- Keen interest in learning and processing payroll and financial accounting.
- Ability to deal with pressure and tight time frames whilst maintaining attention to detail and accuracy.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Desirable: _
- Previous working experience in payroll and/or financial accounting

What matters most is that you’ll live and breathe our values, which means:

- You are humble, human, and full of hope.
- You show up and share.
- You ask: Why not? And what’s next?
- You leave a positive wake.

Why? We believe that through these values, we do our best work - for each other, for clients, and for the communities we work in. And it’s a promise we make to you about the kind of experience you will have working for us.

**Why work for Lives Lived Well?
**Well, it’s about people, purpose, impact, and growth.

We think you’ll love working with our talented people across services that are as diverse as the communities we work in. We’ve grown significantly, with no plans of slowing down.giving you a real opportunity to go further

**So, what does that means for you?**
- You’ll grow as a person and as a professional, extending your knowledge and skills beyond the norm and be exposed to the latest practice in this field.
- You’ll be trusted with autonomy in a supportive, respectful environment.
- You’ll make a lasting difference - on clients, the community and a team that cares as much as you.

**But it’s more than that.**

You’ll join a curious team that thinks differently and seeks new ways. We look to the evidence. We explore new ideas. And when we reach “better”, we ask, “What’s next?” Which means you’ll need to be comfortable with change - you’ll enjoy variety, the agility, and the opportunity to achieve more, faster.

And while you support others, we’ll support you, with some great benefits including:

- An extra five paid leave days per year to support your wellbeing and work-life balance.
- Salary packaging to increase your take-home pay
- Paid parental leave of 8 weeks. An employee assistance program (EAP) for you and your family, including emotional, psychological, financial counselling and wellbei