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About the Role
SSI is seeking an experienced Senior Payroll Officer to support accurate and timely payroll processing for over 900 employees, provide guidance on payroll inquiries, reporting, reconciliations, audits, and process improvements, and collaborate with the Payroll Lead and other teams to deliver a high-quality payroll service.
Responsibilities
- Process payroll accurately and on time, ensuring compliance with relevant Awards, legislation and SSI policies
- Manage payroll changes within the applicable pay period
- Respond to payroll enquiries with professionalism, accuracy and care
- Process complex payroll calculations, including redundancies, long service leave, overpayments and underpayments
- Support month-end and year-end payroll activities, reconciliations, reporting and audits
- Maintain payroll procedures, guides and process documentation
- Identify risks, inefficiencies and opportunities for continuous improvement
- Support payroll team functions in the Payroll Lead’s absence
Requirements
- Strong technical knowledge in payroll
- Excellent attention to detail
- Ability to work confidently with complex payroll matters
- Ideally 7+ years’ payroll experience, including experience in a senior payroll role
- Strong knowledge of payroll legislation, tax, superannuation, Awards and compliance requirements
- Experience working with complex payroll calculations and payroll reconciliations
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including VLOOKUPs and pivot tables
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a high level of accuracy
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- The ability to work collaboratively and build trusted relationships across the organisation
- Experience with SCHADS Award and Dayforce will be highly regarded
- National Police Clearance
- Working with Children Check
Skills
- Payroll
- Microsoft Excel
- VLOOKUPs
- Pivot tables
- Problem-solving
- Communication
Location
- Parramatta, Sydney
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid working options available
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 7+ years
Benefits
- Salary packaging options up to $15,900 tax-free
- Industry leading hybrid and flexible working arrangement
- Opportunity of a 9-day fortnight
- Access to in-house training and learning opportunities for professional development and growth
- Working alongside professional and dedicated team members
About the Company
- SSI is a community-based organisation and social business that supports newcomers and Australians to achieve their full potential.
- Takes an integrated approach to help everyone thrive within their community and wider Australian society.
- Supports children, young people and families; people living with disability; and asylum seekers, refugees and migrants.
- Programs include facilitating employment, multicultural foster care, creating community engagement, advocacy, and influencing government and international affairs.
- Provides thought leadership within the sector nationally and globally.
Equal Opportunity
- SSI strives to be an inclusive workplace for all people.
- Welcome and encourage applications from all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, the LGBTIQ+ community, veterans, refugees and people with disability.
- SSI is a Disability Confident Recruiter.