Payroll Manager

The Role

**Department**: Human Resources

**Location**: Australia

**Role**: Payroll Manager

The Team

The Human Resources team in Australia is a high performing and collaborative team made up of HR generalists, payroll, recruitment, learning and D&I specialists, and we are looking to add someone with solid payroll and HR reporting experience to its capability.

Purpose of your role

This job description provides an overview of the core responsibilities for an employee in the role of Payroll Manager for the Australian offices. Responsibility for the day-to-day payroll function, ensuring that all salary payments are processed accurately and completely for all employees across Australia, as well as fulfilling duties associated with HR reporting and data analytics.

Reporting to HR Manager Australia.

Key responsibilities and objectives
- Processing end-to-end monthly payroll for salaried and casual employees
- Preparation of all manual ad hoc pay runs
- Set up of new starters
- Managing and updating employee records
- Calculation and processing of termination payments
- Providing excellent customer service in answering all payroll queries
- Assisting Finance and HR teams in the provision of payroll data, reports, etc. as required
- Preparing reports, monthly reconciliations and general ledger related activities.

HR Reporting
- Develop and maintain HR metrics for the firm across remuneration, performance & talent, including Mercer data submissions
- Assist with the firm’s annual WGEA remuneration reporting and conduct gender pay gap analyses
- Assist in the annual remuneration review process, prepare firm wide data, provide analysis.

Essential skills and experience
- Experience in a payroll function, operating and running payrolls autonomously
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of termination and redundancy calculations and payments
- Ability to interpret and analyse Awards including the Legal Services Award
- Reporting and Analysis - compilation of routine reporting and analytical schedules as well as preparing or validating input data
- Preparation of data metrics and commentary to meet business needs
- Professional services experience (preferred but not essential)
- Ability to multi-task, work well under pressure and meet deadlines
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel (essential)
- Demonstrate initiative, with the ability to anticipate needs and design and deliver process improvements
- Experience with payroll systems.

Business Services Competencies

Clyde & Co is committed to providing extensive, personal and professional development opportunities for our people enabling them to be highly effective in their current role as well as assisting them to fulfil their career aspirations.

The competencies are used to inform all aspects of Business Services career development. They vary across levels and different business areas and fall under the following areas:

- Technical Excellence
- People and Team
- Client/Stakeholder Relationships
- Service Delivery and Commercial Awareness
- Personal Effectiveness.

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When you work at Clyde & Co, you join a team of 490 partners, 2,400 lawyers, 3,200 legal professionals and 5,500 people in nearly 70 offices and associated offices worldwide. Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for both our clients and our firm. We work as one, excel with clients, celebrate difference and act boldly. We are committed to operating in a responsible way by progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities and clients it serves. We are devoted to providing an environment in which everyone can realise their potential, using its legal and professional skills to support its communities. We do this through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment, including through our commitment to the SBTi Net-Zero standard and the setting of ambitious emissions reduction targets.

We offer a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning and wellbeing initiatives.