Payroll Administrator

Full Time**Location**:
Brisbane**Job type**:
Administration & Office Support**Applications close**:
14 Feb 2025 E. Australia Standard Time

**Payroll Administrator**:
Imagine a career where your work truly matters, where you are part of a team that values you and your contributions. At Sunwater, you will bring life’s most essential resource to over 5,000 agriculture, urban and industrial customers, helping to sustain communities and drive water for prosperity across regional Queensland. We share the values of these communities — starting with caring about our people. Engage in fascinating work that is constantly evolving, allowing you to grow and shape a successful career and develop unique skills and experience in an industry brimming with opportunity.

We are currently looking for a detail-orientated Payroll Administrator to join our team on a permanent full-time basis.

**Work.Water.Life**

As our Payroll Administrator, you will be responsible for ensuring payroll processing and timesheet data administration is completed accurately and on time. You will also provide payroll-related advice to employees regarding employment conditions, entitlements and policies. As a key team member reporting to our Senior Payroll Advisor, you will contribute to fostering a positive and values-driven workplace culture.

Responsibilities will include:

- Accurately process end-to-end payroll and timesheet data within required timeframes
- Provide payroll-related information and services to employees in a professional and confidential manner
- Ensure compliance with relevant legislation, the enterprise agreement and corporate policies
- Maintain payroll records and assist with audits and reporting as required

We are looking for someone with a minimum of 3 years' experience in an end-to-end payroll function. In addition, you will be able to demonstrate:

- Strong attention to detail with the ability to establish work priorities, resolve issues, and meet deadlines
- High level of accuracy in data entry and payroll processing
- Well-developed interpersonal skills with the ability to handle confidential information with integrity
- Sound knowledge or ability to quickly acquire knowledge of legislation, the Sunwater enterprise agreement, and regulations relevant to payroll processing.

Previous experience using Aurion HRIS (version 11) is highly desirable.

This role offers an array of attractive benefits including:

- Base salary starting from $86,390.98
- 12.75% superannuation
- Access to Banked Time and TOIL
- 17.5% leave loading
- Access to Sunwater's MyBenefits hosted by Reward Gateway
- Flexible work environment with a genuine emphasis on work/life balance

Now is the perfect time to join Sunwater and take advantage of the boundless opportunities for your career today and in the future. We are a diverse team and proud of the unique journeys and stories each of us brings. As we continue to grow, we need more diverse backgrounds and perspectives than ever before. We are committed to a barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. If you require any accommodations, please let us know so we can ensure you can fully participate in our recruitment experience, which includes reference verification, psychometric testing, background checks and a pre-employment medical evaluation to ensure the best fit for our team.

Sunwater acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first peoples of this country and Traditional Custodians of the land and water we rely on. We respect and value their continued sacred connection to Country, including the diverse, rich traditions, languages and customs that are the longest living in the world. We acknowledge their resilience in the face of significant and ongoing historical, cultural, and political change within Australia. We recognise and value the importance of truth-telling today, and our role to listen and learn.