Payroll Officer

• Be part of a friendly and busy Finance team
• 26 days annual leave, including one for your birthday
• 13 weeks paid parental leave, plus other great employee benefits
• 12 month max term contract - start date March 2025

Role

We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Payroll Officer to join our dynamic Payroll Team within Finance. In this role, you’ll play a key part in processing payrolls for all our Australian and New Zealand legal entities, ensuring compliance and accuracy across all statutory reporting activities. Working closely with IT, Compliance, Finance, and HR teams, you will help manage the full payroll cycle, from onboarding to finance journals, alongside the Senior Payroll Officer. This is an exciting opportunity to support a busy, fast-paced payroll function covering 1,500 employees across 6 Australian and 1 New Zealand fortnightly payrolls. 

Responsibilities

• Manage fortnightly payrolls
• Manage integration of Data from workday to ADP
• Ensure new employees, terminations and any change to employment is accounted for in a timely and accurate manner
• Liaise with Finance to ensure sufficient balance is provided for disbursement 
• Preparation and lodgement of Payroll tax returns
• Year End processing and Income Statement Processing
• Manage payroll inbox to ensure employees’ requests and queries are processed within KPI’s 
• Prepare payroll journals after each payroll
• Reconciliation of clearing accounts 

Requirements

• 1-2 years Payroll experience (essential)
• Payroll System experience (essential)
• Strong Customer Focus
• Excellent Communication Skills
• Excellent Time Management
• Microsoft Excel to intermediate
• Demonstrates the ability and willingness to learn 

Kaplan Australia

Kaplan Australia is one of the world's leading providers of lifelong education, helping over one million students around the globe achieve their educational and career goals each year. While we provide a broad array of educational offerings through our programs, our commitment to providing unrivalled quality and great learning outcomes is consistent in each of our businesses.  

Kaplan Australia has been recognised as an Inclusive Employer by Diversity Council Australia. We pride ourselves on being a kind and inclusive organisation that is reflective of our diverse student group across Kaplan Business School, Kaplan Professional and our Pathways Colleges, and truly value the richness and experience of our diverse team. We will use this momentum to continue to enhance our equity, diversity, and inclusiveness.

Closing date for applications is 5th December 2024.

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