Payroll Officer

Posted: 02/10/2025

Closing Date: 30/10/2025

Job Type: Contract

Location: Macquarie

Job Category: Accounting & Finance

Our Purpose and Ambition

NextSense is a not-for-profit organisation supporting people with vision or hearing loss across Australia. We work with children, adults, and their families, providing a holistic approach to hearing services for newborns through to people over 90 years old, and helping children who are blind or have low vision to develop the right skills, mobility, and independence to confidently explore their world.

NextSense has been breaking boundaries since 1860, and we've been expanding our services ever since. Today, we deliver world-class education (both to children with sensory loss and to professionals in the field), cochlear implants, allied health services, therapy, research, and clinical services to children and adults. We're a registered NDIS provider, working with our clients to achieve their own goals and potential.

We're committed to research and innovation; harnessing the latest technologies and new ways of thinking and educating the next generation to lead the way in hearing and vision services.

Our new world-leading centre for innovation on-site at Macquarie University NSW represents a new era for hearing and vision loss. This nationally significant social infrastructure project was undertaken to nurture, trial and share new ideas and form new partnerships that will drive better outcomes for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind or have low vision. While the centre is based in Macquarie, its impact will extend across the country to all our sites.

The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Payroll Officer to join our team at our Macquarie site. This is a temporary part-time role, on site, and reports directly to the Payroll Manager. You'll make a difference in this role through:

• Administer salaries & wages ensuring employees are paid in an accurate and timely manner each fortnight.
• Maintain employee pay records, associated timesheets, leave records and related information for the efficient maintenance of payroll information.
• Maintain award data and ensure wage payments comply with awards, other relevant agreements, and common law contracts.
• Termination of Employees in Payroll system.
• Ensure new employees are correctly set up in the system.
• Assist Payroll Team with payroll related tasks and duties as required.
• Work collaboratively with other team members.
• Follow workplace health and safety programs to ensure a safe working environment for self and others.
• Any other reasonable duties as required or assigned by your manager.
• Support team with the transition from Preceda to Frontier iChris

What we can offer you

• Competitive remuneration, 100% salary packaging allowing you to increase your take home pay
• Extensive personal/carer's leave
• 2 weeks paid leave over Christmas in addition to 4 weeks annual leave
• Access to industry leading education and professional development
• Collaborative work environment
• Wellbeing program including Employee Assistance Program

To be successful in this role you'll need to demonstrate you meet the following selection criteria;

• Preceda payroll processing experience ideal but other large system experience valued
• Good working knowledge of payroll preparation and processing
• Ability to interpret and apply Awards, Determinations and Agreements
• Ability to deal with payroll matters in confidence and on sensitive matters
• High level of communication skills to ensure a high level of customer focus and service delivery
• Strong computer literacy and intermediate skills in Word and Excel
• Good organisational skills so that work can be planned and prioritised in an effective and efficient manner
• Excellent eye for detail,
• High level of accrue and being able to meet deadlines
• You are obliged to become familiar with, and comply with child protection policies and legislation, as amended from time to time
• Working with Children Check
• Criminal Records Check

We're here to help. If you have any further questions, please reach out to our hiring manager Vicki Stubbs at Good luck

NextSense is a child safe organisation, candidate compliance with child protection legislation is essential.