Payroll Adviser

Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the role

Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington is currently recruiting a Payroll Adviser on a permanent, full-time contract.

Key responsibilities:

• Process payroll information into relevant HR systems, accurately to ensure all payments are made to employees in an accurate, timely manner as required.
• Provide clear and researched explanations in simple language that enables the building of a better understanding by customers of relevant policy, process, procedure and guidelines.
• Support the Payroll Team Leader and Payroll Manager with complex or escalated queries.
• Review, analyse and complete complex pay calculations.
• Ensure accurate reconciliation of payroll accounts to balance sheet, preparation of PAYE and ACC returns, superannuation schemes and related processes are known and documented.
• Support continuous improvement activities within the team to ensure enhanced service delivery.
• Develop an understanding of the related systems, payroll SQL and payroll configuration.

Ō pūmanawa - About you

Key requirements:

• At least 3+ years payroll experience in a large and complex organisation.
• Demonstrated experience in administrative tasks including accurate data entry and checking.
• Proven experience delivering high quality customer service and managing the end-to-end workflow and output of a Payroll team.
• Experience using payroll systems to an advanced level, in particular Oracle HCM and/or Ascender (aPay).
• Understanding of payroll processing procedures and supporting functions.
• Ability to work under pressure and within a deadline driven environment.
• Ability to work as part of a cohesive team.
• Competent using Microsoft Word and Excel packages to an intermediate level.