Payroll Compliance Officer x2
- Employment Type: Full Time (35 hours per week)
- Duration: Contract until 31st December 2025
- Remuneration: Level 6 $100,354 - $107,054 (depending on experience) + 17% super + leave loading
- Location: Kensington, NSW (hybrid)
Join UNSW as a Payroll Compliance Officer – with two roles available! Be at the heart of maintaining payroll accuracy, resolving employee pay claims, and ensuring data integrity. Collaborate with key teams, shape robust pay claims processes, and make a real impact. Apply now to be part of our compliance success!
About UNSW:
UNSW isn’t like other places you’ve worked. Yes, we’re a large organisation with a diverse and talented community; a community doing extraordinary things. Together, we are driven to be thoughtful, practical, and purposeful in all we do. Taking this combined approach is what makes our work matter. It’s the reason we’re one of the top 20 universities in the world and a member of Australia’s prestigious Group of Eight. If you want a career where you can thrive, be challenged and do meaningful work, you’re in the right place.
Why your Role Matters:
The Payroll Compliance Officer plays a key role in quantifying and rectifying employee pay claims, maintaining payroll data integrity, and supporting general compliance activities. Reporting to the Payroll Compliance Team Lead, the role involves establishing and maintaining a robust internal process for pay claims management while working closely with key stakeholders, including the finance, claims, and salaries teams.
A critical aspect of this role is ensuring data integrity through rigorous checking, updating, and maintenance, with a strong focus on claims, data interpretation, and preserving accuracy.
This position has no direct reports.
Skills and Experience:
- Relevant experience or a degree, with a subsequent level of knowledge gained through a combination of education, training and/or experience.
- Experience in payroll processes including interpreting industrial instruments (including enterprise agreements and relevant employment legislation) as well as legislation relating to PAYG, superannuation and other payroll regulations.
- High degree of competency in Microsoft Excel.
- Prior experience working with PeopleSoft desirable.
- Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills and proven capacity to exercise initiative, flexibility and to be proactive in development of robust solutions to problems.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a high level of attention to detail for deliverables produced.
- Demonstrated success working effectively and collaboratively on initiatives with a range of people at different levels within an organisation.
- Excellent time management skills, with a demonstrated ability to respond to changing priorities, manage multiple tasks and meet competing deadlines by using judgement and initiative.
For further details on role responsibilities and skills & experience required, refer to the position description found under the position listing on Jobs@UNSW
Benefits and Culture:
People are at the core of everything we do. We recognise it is the contributions of our staff who make UNSW one of the best universities in Australia and the world.
Our benefits include:
- Flexible working options.
- Career development opportunities.
- 17% Superannuation contributions and additional leave loading payments.
- Additional 3 days of leave over Christmas period.
- Discounts and entitlements (retail, education, fitness).
For further details on the benefits, please visit https://www.jobs.unsw.edu.au/lifestyle-benefits
How to Apply: Submit your CV & a succinct one-page cover letter detailing your interest and suitability for the job (as per the skills & experience bullet points in the job description) by 11:55pm, 17th February 2025
Please note: Sponsorship is not available for this role, valid Australian working rights are required on application.
Contact: Amy Denney a.denney@unsw.edu.au - Talent Acquisition Team
Please apply directly through the website, applications sent to the contact above will not be accepted.
UNSW is committed to equity diversity and inclusion. Applications from women, people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, those living with disabilities, members of the LGBTIQ+ community; and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, are encouraged. UNSW provides workplace adjustments for people with disability, and access to flexible work options for eligible staff.
The University reserves the right not to proceed with any appointment.
