Payroll Officer. Permanent Full Time - NSW or VIC

About the Organisation
Make a real difference in the lives of vulnerable Australians with this unique opportunity to provide both corporate expertise and community support. With a focus on people, not profit, Life Without Barriers’ corporate services team partners with our direct support staff, clients, and their families to ensure we continue our mission to change lives for the better.  If a truly inclusive, collaborative, and fast-paced work environment sounds like your next career move, this is an opening not to be missed.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people, and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.  Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the role

Working in our Shared Services team you will provide end to end transactional service delivery across payroll.  This is a permanent full time role where you can work from anywhere in NSW or Victoria. Whilst this position can work remotely there will be times you will need to come in to one of our offices including occasional travel to Newcastle NSW for training or team meetings.

Key Responsibilities 

• Processing salaries and wages with our fortnightly pay run and off cycles
• Key employee life cycle processes including maintenance of employee records such as on-boarding, contract variations, terminations and organisational chart impacts
• Provide strong customer service to all employees regarding their payroll enquiries via phone and email
• Ensuring your industry knowledge on payroll matters is up to date and current

 Skills & Experience

• Be able to demonstrate interest in starting or progressing your career in Payroll services
• Demonstrated experience or ability to use Microsoft Office suite of programs such as Outlook, Word, Excel and other software applications
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy working with high volumes of data
• Experience working to deadlines and prioritising tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Analytical mind set and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrate an ability to maintain a high degree of confidentiality
• Good interpersonal skills and demonstrated commitment to provide a high level of customer service

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check.
   
Benefits

• Join a large, dynamic Payroll team that you will be supported by
• Monthly rostered days off
• Flexible location – work from home or in the office, wherever you work best!

How to Apply

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact Debra Neil at recruitment@lwb.org.au

Applications close at midnight 30 January.

To be considered for and appointed to a position at Life Without Barriers, you must be vaccinated against COVID-19 or hold a valid medical exemption certificate.  You will be required to provide evidence of your vaccination status during the recruitment process.