Senior Payroll Officer

Location: Sydney CBD
Discipline: Accounting Support
Job type: Contracting
Salary: Negotiable
Contact name: Michael Dowds

Contact email: Michael.Dowds@accountability.com.au
Job ref: 267983
Published: over 1 year ago

The Company

An industrial giant with a footprint across a range of business areas including supply chain, logistics & warehousing. They are the largest organisation of its kind in Australia. It has recently received accreditation as an employer of choice.

They have recently hired new leadership that are focused on payroll compliance & transformation, building a robust & customer focused centre of excellence for payroll & HR systems. This year they have stabilised & optimised the payroll system & although there is work still to do, this an exceptional time to join the team as they embark on a new chapter.



The Role

  • End to End payroll on a weekly/fortnightly basis on ichris
  • Provide senior level support in absence of Payroll Supervisor, dealing with queries, in a highly customer focused & humane way
  • Review manual payments & calculations such as Terminations
  • Generate final payment run reports
  • Build relationships with key business stakeholders
  • Business Partner relationship with organisational division
  • GL Reconciliation & Upload to ERP System
  • Payroll tax, Superannuation and also all other statutory contributions & deductions


This is a permanent role, based in the group's payroll function based in Sydney CBD. They have a clear, divisionalised structure with three payroll teams. This new shape to the department, has created an opportunity for a highly experienced ichris Senior Payroll Officer to bring value & knowledge to the function.


The Head of Payroll has exceptional tenure with the business and has expert knowledge of the organisation, relevant payroll legislation & systems architecture. She is the epitome of "lead by example"; she knows has the bandwidth to promote payroll to the organisation and support the development of the team.

The Senior Management team values payroll and has offered internal promotion and opportunities to existing team members. This is an organisation that invests in your payroll career.

This is a busy role & fast paced environment. But the team take time to laugh and take care of each other.

In return this role can offer unparalleled opportunities for internal progression, learning from the most highly reputed senior professionals in the market.

To excel in this role, you will have exposure to a fast paced, weekly/fortnightly timesheet driven payroll. Knowledge of transport or similar EA's is also important (especially interstate such as South Australia & Victoria).

The team attend the office between Monday to Thursday (wfh on Friday). They are centrally located, close to Wynyard station.


If you would like more information on this position, please don't hesitate to contact Michael Dowds on 02 8296 5318.