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Drive Compliance & Excellence in Payroll Operations

Are you an experienced payroll or compliance specialist with a passion for ensuring accuracy, fairness, and best-practice processes? We are seeking a Senior Project Specialist - Pay & Benefits to play a key role in driving payroll compliance, process integrity, and operational oversight within a complex and highly regulated environment.

About the Role

In this role, you will lead payroll compliance initiatives, ensuring adherence to regulatory frameworks, internal governance, and industrial instruments.

Reporting to the Senior Manager - Payroll, you will be responsible for:

• Overseeing payroll compliance projects, ensuring calculations and adjustments align with legislation and enterprise agreements.
• Validating and reconciling pay adjustments, ensuring accuracy and fairness for employees.
• Providing expert guidance on payroll frameworks, industrial instruments, and regulatory requirements.
• Leading cross-functional collaboration with HR, Finance, and Legal to ensure compliance best practices.
• Developing clear, employee-friendly communication around payroll matters in conjunction with key stakeholders.
• Maintaining audit-ready records of payroll processes and compliance decisions.

Important information:

At CPA the safety of our staff and clients is of paramount importance. We have assessed this role type as requiring a low level of physical functionality with some inherent requirements. For more information on what that may mean for this role please click here.Please let us know if you have any pre-existing injuries or illnesses which you are currently seeking, or have sought, medical treatment for which you think may impact your ability to fulfil the inherent requirements of this role. CPA is committed to supporting an inclusive work environment and engaging workers with diverse lived experience. We will happily consider and accommodate reasonable adjustments that may be required to support candidates throughout the recruitment process, and to be successful and safe employees of CPA.

At Cerebral Palsy Alliance, we value diversity, foster an inclusive culture and champion equitable opportunities. We strongly encourage applications from candidates with a diverse range of backgrounds and lived experiences including people with disability, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and the LGBTQIA+ community.

Cerebral Palsy Alliance is committed to the safety and wellbeing of our clients and staff. As such we encourage all employees be vaccinated against COVID-19. Cerebral Palsy Alliance is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Cerebral Palsy Alliance upholds, advocates for, and protects the  rights, wellbeing and safety of people with a disability. We are a child safe organisation and all workers are responsible to adhere to the NDIS Worker Code of Conduct.CPA is a smoke free workplace including in, on and around CPA sites and vehicles.

How to Apply

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