Payroll and Benefits Specialist

**Description**:
**Are you looking for a career that really makes a difference.**

Shouting out to all passionate payroll and benefits enthusiasts, this is your chance to use your expertise in payroll and your flair for quality customer service and step into our Payroll and Benefits Specialist role Due to internal movements, we are looking for our next Superstar to join our People and Culture team

If you don't tick every box, we still want to hear from you. We prioritise hiring on attitude and competency that we can support with mentoring.

**What we do**

We are a progressive NFP successfully unlocking the potential in transforming lives through education for over 100 years, having grown by 900% in just the past 20 yrs with planned growth for the future, we continue to be proud of this development coupled with our sustainable practices in the difference we make to our community.

Year on year we continue to grow by being agile, fun, and a hands-on team.

Our values of **Inclusion**, **Integrity **and **Innovation **shine through our people.

We are now seeking equally passionate people who are aligned with our values, invested in their roles, and the success of others.

**‘Why’ this role makes a difference**

Our organisation is genuinely committed to our values of **Inclusion**, **Integrity **and **Innovation**, not just in our strategic plan, yet in our day to day business as usual deliverables to our company, people and students.

Responsible for the processing of payroll for our whole organisation, this is an exciting opportunity for a passionate Payroll and Benefits Specialist to provide the organisation and People and Culture team with sound payroll and benefits advice and support. As our Payroll and Benefits Specialist, you will have a strong focus on quality data and integrity, high attention to detail and collaborative in your approach. With a strong alignment to quality and a commitment to continued development of processes, this role will have a large focus on continuous improvement, development of policies and procedures, quality and sound payroll and benefits advice, and a commitment to innovative solutions.

In addition to Atwea's values, we foster our great culture through **Intentional Leadership**, managing consciously by **Tone** and **Pace**.

**Tone **_Fun, Balanced, Professional_
- Infuse positivity and participation
- Extend trust
- Supportive and constructive
- Consolidate and continuously improve
- Extending grace and tolerance
- Invested in the success of self and others

**Pace **_Energetic Rhythm_
- Agile and responsive
- Generate ideas
- Proactively prioritise
- Time conscious
- Considerate of volume capacity and skill capability
- Measured and deliberate planning

**About the Role**

Located at our Newcastle Office, our new Payroll and Benefits Specialist will enjoy collaborating, educating others on payroll and benefits, be motivated and adaptive and have a flair for providing quality customer service. Working as part of the People and Culture (PaC) team, our valued new team member will enjoy processing a high‐volume of payroll and is committed to providing sound quality advice with regard to employee benefits.

Providing valuable advice and support to employees in processing payroll and superannuation, this role will also see you providing advice regarding remuneration and benefits, responsible for STP reporting, and ensuring compliance against legislative requirements with government regulations and the Atwea College Enterprise Agreement as well as Modern Awards.

**Responsibilities**:

- Manage the payroll process end to end independently with mínimal supervision.
- Processing new starters and leavers as well as timesheets, staff leave and mileage claims.
- Creating payroll and super payments.
- Processing salary sacrifice and payment deductions and liaise with provider.
- Assisting with regular reporting and audits.
- Maintaining integrity of all payroll and super information on relevant databases.
- Managing payroll inbox and answering staff queries.
- Ensuring all payroll transactions are processed efficiently and accurately.
- Collecting, calculating, and entering data in order to maintain and update payroll information.
- Compiling summaries of earnings, taxes, deductions, leave, and non-taxable wages and reporting on this.
- Resolving payroll discrepancies.
- Maintaining and improving payroll operations by developing and/or following policies and procedures.
- Developing ad hoc financial and operational reporting as required.
- Implementing new software/systems as required.
- Maximising Systems Deliverables/Output.
- Hands on experience with quantitative and qualitative research.
- Conduct periodic audits, prepare and present reports.
- Conduct salary and labour market research to define benchmarks.
- Ensure compliance and accuracy of data. Audit, investigate and communicate regularly ideas, issues, trends.
- Hands on experience with HR software (HRIS) or Hu