Senior Payroll Officer

2 days ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Arcadis Full time $60,000 - $90,000 per year

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:
This position is a 12-month contract role, responsible for supporting the Payroll Manager in ensuring timely and accurate payroll processing. The Senior Payroll Officer will report directly to the Regional Payroll Manager.

Role accountabilities:
The main responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to:

  • Assisting with End-to-end payroll process in Australia, constituting approx. 1000 permanent employees and 100 casual employees
  • Provide adequate backup to allow for absences of Payroll Manager, both planned and unforeseen
  • Assistance with Payroll related general ledger activities and assisting with end of month reports, annualised salaries and reconciliation processes
  • Salary Packaging & Leave Reconciliations
  • Assisting with Payroll Tax, Superannuation Lodgements
  • Assisting with Process Improvement Projects
  • Award Interpretation experience and understanding of annualised salaries process
  • Prompt resolution and responses to employee and stakeholder queries
  • Performing other duties and responsibilities as required from time to time by your manager or Arcadis
  • Ensuring you are familiar and compliant with Health and Safety regulations and guidelines.
  • Timesheet reconciliation and compliance, including timecard comparison across different systems to support internal processes.
  • Assistance with payroll systems configuration and maintenance of employee records

Qualifications & Experience:

  • Extensive working knowledge of Sage MicroPay
  • Demonstrated past experience in a similar Australian payroll position, preferably in a professional services environment
  • Current knowledge and understanding of legislation relating to payroll e.g. Single touch payroll
  • Demonstrated accuracy and attention to detail
  • Good communication skills
  • Professional approach, demonstrated ability to work with people with a variety of backgrounds and seniority
  • Advanced skills in Microsoft Office, particularly, Excel and Outlook

Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skill-based approach, where you can hardness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging:
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people.

As an equal opportunity employer, we value and promote diversity at Arcadis and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Veterans and spouses are invited to apply.

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