Payroll Compliance Specialist

**Payroll Compliance Specialist**

**What can you expect?**

Marsh McLennan is the world’s leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy and people. The Company’s more than 85,000 colleagues advise clients in over 130 countries. With annual revenue of $23 billion, Marsh McLennan helps clients navigate an increasingly dynamic and complex environment through four market-leading businesses, Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer, and Oliver Wyman.

We have a newly created position available for a Payroll Compliance Specialist. You will utilise your distinctive blend of regulatory knowledge, payroll experience, analytical skills and interpersonal abilities to drive the implementation and upkeep of payroll compliance across the Pacific Region (Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, PNG).

This is a unique opportunity to further your career within a leading Global organisation, offering a challenging role with a considerable degree of autonomy and responsibility.

This is a hybrid role with the flexibility to work both from home and our office.

**What is in it for you?**

At Marsh, we believe that bringing your whole self to work is a fundamental right. We go above and beyond to ensure our colleagues feel valued every day:

- ** Join a Global Leader**: Work within a multi-national insurance broking and risk advisory company, offering clients a wide range of specialist services.
- ** Supportive Team**: Be part of a great team environment with sociable and supportive colleagues who are passionate about what they do.
- ** Inclusive Culture**: Marsh welcomes all individuals who can help our shared enterprise to thrive. We value capability, creativity, and fairness in our people.
- ** Diversity Matters**: We believe our greatest strength lies in the collective talent of our people. The more diverse our backgrounds and experiences, the more we can achieve together. Be part of our shared enterprise to thrive.
- ** Modern Workplace**: Enjoy a modern and vibrant work environment with flexibility to balance your office and home life.

**We will count on you to**:

- Ensure overall payroll compliance within regulatory framework.
- Implement audit processes including development of necessary payroll reports.
- Examine payrolls processes to ensure they are up-to-date, legally compliant, and up to the highest industry standards, including wages, pay rates and tax withholdings.
- Analyse the systems, processes and structures of the existing payroll administration to identify errors and deficiencies and recommend procedure changes.
- Work closely with the payroll operations team based in India, to drive improvements and implement recommendations in response to legislation change.

**What you need to have**:

- Extensive experience in end-to-end payroll and/or payroll auditing.
- Knowledge of payroll and payroll tax regulatory requirements.
- Experience interpreting multiple industrial pay conditions.
- Ability to interpret relevant legislation, awards and compliance requirements.
- Capability to think independently, suggest improvements, analyse and interpret payroll data, identify and mitigate risk and to advocate change when necessary.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Marsh McLennan is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- At Marsh we recognise that our people have different priorities and commitments. We are passionate about providing an inclusive workplace that supports all of our employees in managing those priorities, and we celebrate the diversity of all the family groups that make up our extended Marsh family._