Manager, Payroll - Ashfield, Australia - 3Bridges Community

Description

Join us on our journey to create a genuine impact for the community and beyond.

3Bridges Benefits

• Salary packaging & novated leasing
• Workforce wellbeing support provider
• Career development & progression support​​​​​​​
• ​​​​​​​Employee referral and milestone reward programs
• Complimentary annual flu vaccinations
• Discounted OSHC services and gym memberships

About 3Bridges

We strive to give back - together.

3Bridges is a Registered Charity and a Not-for-Profit organisation with over 40 years of combined experience in partnering with local communities, and empowering individuals to live their best life, regardless of age, location, disability, or ethnicity. The diversity of our services and programs provide 3Bridges with unique opportunities to connect with the community, in a meaningful and substantial way.

About The Role

The Manager, Payroll is to oversee all aspects of payroll operations, ensuring accuracy, compliance and timely payments of employees at our organisation.

The role requires collaboration with various departments to gather and validate payroll information, resolve payroll discrepancies and provide exceptional service to our employees. The role's responsibilities will evolve and change as the organisation evolves in meeting its strategic objectives. Some of the primary responsibilities of the role are;

Functional:

• Manage the delivery of effective and efficient payroll operations ensuring the appropriate payment, disbursement, checking and reconciliation procedures are in place and undertaken in a timely manner.
• Manage and review the preparation, balancing and reconciliation of PAYG Tax.
• Collaborate with the finance team to reconcile FBT, superannuation and payment summaries.
• Ensuring ALL Statutory Returns to Regulatory Authorities are complied with.
• Work in partnership with the People Connection (HR) team to consolidate benefits delivered through the identification of process improvement (HR – Payroll resulting in leading practice.
• Implement exception reporting and audit schedules, to enable a proactive approach to errors and ensure payroll can anticipate and rectify errors before they occur.
• Resolves any payroll discrepancies and keeps a balance of all payroll accounts.
• Monitor and implement up-to-date information on changes to payroll and tax legislation.

Process Development and Implementation:

• Work in collaboration with People Connection, Recruitment, Finance and Technology teams to implement and streamline processes.
• Coordinate with different departments to ensure current and new payroll processes are integrated smoothly.
• Monitor and report on the performance of newly implemented services, adjusting

Payroll System:

• Maintain payroll systems in line with operational protocols and processes.
• Ensure that payroll system upgrades, development and workflows are managed and maintained efficiently and effectively to assist the organisation in achieving strategic objectives.

Strategic Management:

• Work with the CFO and Executive Leadership Team to define strategic implementation plans within the function in line with the organisation's strategic objectives.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to improve the capacity of services provided to internal stakeholders.
• Manage and maintain continuous improvement plans for the function ensuring the team is delivering outcomes in line with organizational strategic goals.

Leadership and Stakeholder Management:

• Lead the team in leading practices and effective process governance.
• Provide support, guidance, coaching, leadership and empowerment to the team including feedback through performance reviews and regular supervision.
• Build and maintain relationships with all internal and external stakeholders to maintain service excellence and support strategic goals.
• Maintain the integrity of the leadership's essential behaviours working with internal and external stakeholders.

Cross Functional Improvement:

• Promote a culture of continuous improvement within the function, encouraging teams to identify and implement process improvements to enhance the quality and efficiency of the service.
• Collaborating with other departments, to develop and integrate quality practices throughout the function.
• Working closely with the Quality and Compliance department to integrate assurance and safety features into overall service design.

About You

• 5+ Years experience in a Senior Payroll position or as a Payroll Manager.
• Degree qualified in Business, Commerce, Administration, or related field.
• Demonstrated experience or the capacity to lead through 3Bridges Culture and Values.
• Highly developed interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills with experience with developing and maintaining strong partnerships.
• Manage a team performing end-to-end payroll processing, including collecting, calculating and inputting payroll data for all employees.
• Perform quality and control audits to ensure accuracy in processing payroll transactions.

What it means to work at 3Bridges?

Our culture has been formed with a community spirit and passion to give back. 3Bridges aims to inspire and encourage our people to be the best they can be, through ongoing training, career opportunities and success as a valued team member.

3Bridges is committed to enabling a culture of inclusion and diversity, and to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all. The people we work with and provide support to, come from all walks of life and so do we. We welcome your unique contributions through your experiences, culture, opinions, ethnicity, gender identity and all that makes you an individual.

The successful candidate will require National Police clearance prior to appointment (completed by 3Bridges), valid NSW Working With Children Check clearance and Current NSW drivers' licence.

For more information, or if you would like to have a confidential discussion, please do not hesitate to reach out to