Senior Payroll Officer

Job Title: Senior Payroll Officer

Location: Remote (Australia)

Salary: $75,000-$92,000 per annum

Hours: 39 hours per week

Contract: Permanent, full-time

From Perth, our consultants travel to client sites across Western Australia and beyond. Environmental permitting and compliance consulting is the newest practice area. Still family owned, 28 years on.

Overview:

The Senior Payroll Officer runs biweekly payroll for about 900 employees in 12 states, hourly and salaried. Remote within Australia. The team meets in Perth once a quarter, travel covered. Hours are flexible, with one short team call each morning.

Day to day:

• Process biweekly and weekly payroll in ADP Workforce Now
• Prepare payroll journal entries and accruals for accounting
• Review timecards for missing punches, overtime and PTO before each run
• Answer employee questions about paychecks, withholding and direct deposit
• Reconcile payroll registers to the general ledger each period
• Calculate final pay in line with state timing rules
• Audit benefit deductions against carrier invoices

Qualifications:

• 6+ years of hands-on payroll processing, ideally multi-state
• Discreet with confidential pay and personal data
• Experience with ADP, Paylocity, Paycom, UKG or Workday
• Comfortable with garnishments and tax withholding setup
• Accurate and deadline-driven. Payroll does not slip
• High school diploma required; associate or bachelor's degree preferred

Benefits:

• Superannuation on top of salary
• Paid parental leave
• Annual bonus

Applications close when we find the right person, so get in early.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Fulmar Partners Pty Ltd.