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Payroll Officer
Grant Thornton Australia
Sydney, AUS
Full-time
Mid · 5+ years experience
Hybrid
Discovered 1 weeks ago
excel
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Payroll Officer to join our dynamic team in the professional services industry.
The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing and overseeing the payroll functions, ensuring accuracy and compliance with all relevant regulations.
This role requires a detail-oriented individual with strong analytical skills, resilience, and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
Key Skills for This Role
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Key responsibilities
- Payroll: Full end-to-end payroll process, ensuring timely and accurate payroll delivery for all employees.
- Compliance: Ensure compliance with all relevant payroll legislation and regulations, including tax and superannuation requirements.
- Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with various stakeholders, including HR, finance, and external auditors, to address payroll-related queries and issues.
- System Management: Maintain and update payroll systems, ensuring data integrity and accuracy. Experience with Workday Payroll is highly regarded.
- Process Improvement: Identify and implement process improvements to enhance payroll efficiency and accuracy.
- Issue Resolution: Address and resolve payroll discrepancies and issues in a timely manner.
Skills & experience
- Key Attributes:
- Resilience: Ability to handle high-pressure situations and manage multiple tasks simultaneously while maintaining a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Team Player: Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively within a team and support colleagues.
- Intermediate/Advanced Excel Skills: Proficiency in Excel, including the ability to use advanced functions and formulas for data analysis and reporting.
- Fast learner with experience across multiple payroll platforms.
- Stakeholder Management: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to manage and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- Qualifications and Experience:
- Experience: A minimum of 5 years of experience in payroll, preferably within the professional services industry.
- If you’re interested in this role but don’t feel that you match every single one of our requirements, we would still love to hear from you and explore the unique skillset and attributes that you can bring to the team.
- Reach your remarkable
- At Grant Thornton we do things differently because we understand that when you strive for better and care about what you do remarkable things are possible. We’re a dynamic and authentic mix of backgrounds, perspectives and ways of thinking. We’re driven by our shared purpose – we care for our people, clients and communities and support them to thrive.
- With us, you’ll be exposed to challenging and rewarding opportunities – building your confidence and capabilities at every step. You’ll be supported, motivated and inspired by a team of passionate and caring collaborators and leaders. You’ll be empowered to build a career path that’s tailored to you and encouraged to make a meaningful difference. And we’ll make sure the excellence you deliver and the impact you make is always seen, felt and celebrated.
- Remarkable perks that put you first:
- Up to 26 weeks paid parental leave | paid secondary carers leave
- Respectful & supportive teams
- Mental health support, financial & wellbeing coaching
- Work in comfort and dress for your day
- And many more!
- Need some help applying or participating in the recruitment process?
- We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible for anyone who wishes to apply, and we warmly encourage applications from individuals from diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders, those in the LGBTQI+ community and individuals who identify as having disability or are neurodivergent. Click here for recruitment support information and to learn more about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Grant Thornton.
- Should you have questions or require any adaptations or additional support for your individual circumstances so you may perform at your best during the application or recruitment process please contact our Talent Acquisition team at [email protected]
- As we provide fair consideration and evaluation to a high volume of applications, we endeavour to provide feedback on your application at the earliest opportunity.
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Qualifications
- Resilience: Ability to handle high-pressure situations and manage multiple tasks simultaneously while maintaining a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Team Player: Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively within a team and support colleagues.
- Intermediate/Advanced Excel Skills: Proficiency in Excel, including the ability to use advanced functions and formulas for data analysis and reporting.
- Fast learner with experience across multiple payroll platforms.
- Stakeholder Management: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to manage and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- Experience: A minimum of 5 years of experience in payroll, preferably within the professional services industry.
- If you’re interested in this role but don’t feel that you match every single one of our requirements, we would still love to hear from you and explore the unique skillset and attributes that you can bring to the team.
- Reach your remarkable
- At Grant Thornton we do things differently because we understand that when you strive for better and care about what you do remarkable things are possible. We’re a dynamic and authentic mix of backgrounds, perspectives and ways of thinking. We’re driven by our shared purpose – we care for our people, clients and communities and support them to thrive.
- With us, you’ll be exposed to challenging and rewarding opportunities – building your confidence and capabilities at every step. You’ll be supported, motivated and inspired by a team of passionate and caring collaborators and leaders. You’ll be empowered to build a career path that’s tailored to you and encouraged to make a meaningful difference. And we’ll make sure the excellence you deliver and the impact you make is always seen, felt and celebrated.
- Up to 26 weeks paid parental leave | paid secondary carers leave
- Respectful & supportive teams
- Mental health support, financial & wellbeing coaching
- Work in comfort and dress for your day
- And many more!
- Need some help applying or participating in the recruitment process?
- We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible for anyone who wishes to apply, and we warmly encourage applications from individuals from diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders, those in the LGBTQI+ community and individuals who identify as having disability or are neurodivergent. Click here for recruitment support information and to learn more about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Grant Thornton.
- Should you have questions or require any adaptations or additional support for your individual circumstances so you may perform at your best during the application or recruitment process please contact our Talent Acquisition team at [email protected]
- As we provide fair consideration and evaluation to a high volume of applications, we endeavour to provide feedback on your application at the earliest opportunity.
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in payroll, preferably within the professional services industry.
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