Payroll Officer

Essential services, immediate start joining a high performing team
- Full-time permanent opportunity to get gain hands-on experience
- Role based in Clayton South, Melbourne VIC

**About CareChoice**

CareChoice is a NDIS, DFFH / Human Services Standard and TAC/ WorkSafe registered disability and youth services provider. We deliver a wide range of services and provide complex support across the Disability, Out of Home Care (OoHC) and Private Aged Care sectors in a range of settings including home care, residential, community and Specialist Disability Accommodation.

CareChoice is committed to service excellence and works closely with clients, their families, and key stakeholders to ensure individuals receive the very best person-centred care. The CareChoice team are passionate about their work and pride themselves in delivering an exceptional calibre of service.

**Our values**:
Our philosophy of service provision is based upon our values of:

- ** People, First**:

- **Brilliant Together**:

- **Bring Our Best. Always**:

- **Relentless Optimism**

**Benefits & culture**

CareChoice is proud to be an EEO employer. We support an inclusive approach in the workplace. We celebrate our diversity and welcome staff regardless of ethnicity, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity and lifestyle choices. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.

As a CareChoice employee, benefits you'll be able to take advantage of include:

- Access to your pay as you earn it via our financial wellbeing partner
- Employee Pathways Scholarships
- Employee Support Fund
- Free ongoing training and development
- Annual recognition awards
- Paid Pregnancy loss leave for either parent
- Flexible work
- A number of employee wellness platforms including EAP and Care4U, free flu shots and travel discounts.
- Discounts with major retailers including:

- Car and Health Insurance
- Fuel
- Groceries and food
- Gas, Electricity, Internet, and Mobile Phones
- Pet supplies
- Movie tickets
- Other major retailers such as Catch, Myer, Kmart, Big W, JB Hi Fi plus many more.
- Monthly Recognition & Reward for Employee of the Month
- Service Recognition Program
- Career development opportunities including secondments and Job-Ride-A-Long program

From the moment you step through our doors, you'll feel welcome and supported to do your best work and really make a difference in people's lives.

**About the opportunity**

We're currently recruiting for a Payroll Officer (full-time permanent) to join our team based in Clayton South, Melbourne VIC.

The role of the Payroll Officer is to ensure that all the end to end payroll processes are completed by the deadlines, to ensure all employees are paid according to their awards within the correct timeframes; and all the accounts payable invoices are processed, approved and paid prior to the due dates.

Reporting to the Payroll Manager, this position has the responsibility for ensuring that all the payroll tasks are completed within the strict payroll deadlines. The main responsibilities include; payroll processing, employee payroll profile maintenance, entering new starters, accounts payable processing, responding to queries, payments, deductions, reporting, reconciliations.

A day in the life as the Payroll Officer with CareChoice, will see you supporting our finance team with:

- Generating payroll for approx. 650 support workers on a fortnightly basis
- Maintaining employee profiles in the payroll system
- Fortnightly and monthly payroll reporting
- Validating the payroll files prior to payments; checking correct awards, overtime rules, wage rates, time worked, department codes and other checks to ensure an accurate payroll is processed
- Complete offline/adjustment payments, backpay and overtime calculations
- Process workers compensation and reimbursements
- Processing Accounts Payable invoices on a weekly basis.
- Caretake duties in the absence of the Payroll Manager

**About you**

As an enthusiastic and reliable professional willing to learn quickly, you will have strong verbal and written communication skills. Ideally you'll have an understanding of end-to-end payroll procedures (experience with the following will be beneficial);
**_ Ideally you'll have:_**
- Working knowledge of the SCHADS (Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services) and Nurses Award
- Salesforce, 2c9
- Experience with NDIS, community services sector or shift worker payroll

**_ Qualifications required_**
- Bachelor/Degree in Finance/Business/Accounting or equivalent payroll experience
- TAFE qualification in Bookkeeping/Accounting/Payroll or equivalent