Payroll Officer

Summary

Join Employment Hero as a highly ambitious Payroll Officer, playing a pivotal role in ensuring accurate and compliant payroll processing for internal and global teams across multiple geographies. You will prepare payruns, collaborate with outsourced payroll providers, and coordinate with stakeholders. This newly created role requires strong communication, stakeholder management, and time management skills. The ideal candidate will have extensive payroll experience in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK, along with proficiency in KeyPay and Excel. Employment Hero offers a remote-first work environment and various benefits, including a generous home office budget, cutting-edge tools, reward programs, and an employee share option program.

Requirements

• 4+ years experience in a similar role
• Experience running payroll in Australia, New Zealand and UK is essential
• Intermediate to Advanced experience with Excel/Google Sheets
• KeyPay experience essential
• Proven payroll experience in high volume environment
• Strong planning and organisational skills with aptitude to learn and complete work within agreed deadlines
• High level of discretion and ownership
• Have strong communication and stakeholder management skills to work with various internal and external partners with varying levels of payroll/finance knowledge
• Ability to work autonomously with minimal supervision
• Possess excellent decision making and problem-solving skills
• Ability to adapt and respond to urgent or unforeseen circumstances

Responsibilities

• Prepare payroll payroll reports and analysis for internal + Global team employees (AU, NZ, UK), ensuring compliance with diverse international payroll regulations
• Working with outsourced payroll providers (Singapore) and EORs (Malaysia) and first reviewing payruns/invoices
• Navigate and understand the complexities of payroll processes across different countries and regions and resolve any issues/discrepancies
• Review WFH expenses
• Working with accountants to ensure payroll filings and obligations are met in a timely manner (eg. PAYG/PAYE, payroll tax, super, workers compensation insurance renewals, etc)
• Serve as primary point of contact for Finance with the rest of the business and external vendors in relation to all payroll matters
• Prepare monthly payroll reconciliations
• Assist with cashflow forecasting of payroll and payroll-related expenses
• Assist with external audits
• Propose and implement process improvements that enhance the efficiency and accuracy of the global payroll review process
• Stay updated on changes in payroll legislation and best practices
• Other adhoc duties as needed

Preferred Qualifications

Experience running payroll in other geographical areas will be highly advantageous

Benefits

• A generous budget for your home office
• Cutting-edge tools and technology
• Reward and recognition programs - because great work should be recognised and rewarded
• Cashback offers and discounts on popular brands through our Swag app
• Employee Share Option Program: be an owner of Employment Hero
• Annual Global Gathering - so far we’ve been to Thailand, Vietnam and are excited to meet in Dubai 2025