There's something special about spending your days alongside like-minded people, just as committed to purposeful work as you. At Save the Children Australia, we attract bright and big-hearted people who are inspired to make a difference. Together, we are fearless in our pursuit of making lasting change for the children and communities who need it most.

Save the Children: A place where your purpose matters.

It takes all types of personalities and talents to drive our organisation- yours included. We value a healthy work-life balance and ensure our people feel connected to each other and our impact. Learn from inspiring people and grow from a connection to our strong local and global networks. From our programs to our support services - this is the place to realise your purpose.

A place to make a difference

Here you're empowered to make a difference in children's lives by learning, sharing and collaborating to find new ways to solve problems. In this full-time, permanent role, you'll work as a part of our Finance and Support Services team in our brand new Melbourne CBD office to help us create lasting change for children everywhere. The Payroll Officer plays an important role in delivering on our vision of a better world for children. Whether it's working on the preparation, lodgement, and payment of wages or ensuring the accurate, timely, and efficient management of the payroll function be contributing to our commitment to children in Australia, the Pacific and around the world.

You will make a difference by:

• Processing end to end payroll in conjunction with Payroll, Human Resources, and Finance teams
• Ensuring the administration of WorkCover, superannuation, new starters, employment changes and terminations.
• Administering employee queries and responding in a timely and accurate manner
• Ensure the process of pacific region payroll process smoothly.
• Completing all other adhoc payroll duties.

A place to feel valued

Your resilience, adaptability and team playing abilities are invaluable. While you have a strong customer service focus, you're not afraid to push back when needed and escalate issues as required. Your excellent organisational skills give you the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

We recognise your contribution and provide you the support to ensure you can bring your best, knowing here you have the space and opportunity to grow. Bringing your best every day, means:

• Excellent customer service and can-do attitude
• High level of attention to detail.
• Solid understanding of Payroll rules in general
• Experience as a payroll officer for more than 12 months
• Highly developed verbal and written communication skills
• Previous experience in ichris is desirable but not mandatory

A place to belong

It takes all types of people to do the challenging work we do. We are diverse personalities, backgrounds and talents, embracing our differences as one strong and united team. We see and celebrate the unique value you bring to our organisation, and offer a range of rewards for your effort, including:

• Learning or further developing your skills in ichris and TA21
• Individual learning plans to help map and deliver on your career development.
• Internal employment and development opportunities
• A modern, up to date working space. Or the opportunity to work from home (WFH), or both!
• Support for workplace wellness, including access to our free, confidential Employee Wellbeing Program
• Celebrate and feel supported in your diversity. We've established internal networks to support our diverse workforce, foster inclusion and allow you to bring your whole self to work (if that's what you want!) (Pride@Save, Parents and Carers@Save, Mental Wellness Alliance, Disability@Save, First Nations Advisory Commitee).
• Full salary packaging benefits (please use this link to see how much this benefit could mean to you!)
• Extra leave to use in a range of ways to ensure you're able to perform at your optimum

Follow this link for the full list of our employee benefits.

Does this sound like the place for you?

We'd love to hear from you. Submit your cover letter and resume below.

Position Description - Payroll Officer

For more information about a career at Save, visit our Careers Page.

*We understand the need for work-life balance. We've advertised this role as full-time permanent, but if you're looking for something different, please let us know. We offer flexible hours, remote working, and individual flexibility plans to ensure we're providing you a personalised career.
We have tested our application process with diverse groups in mind, with the intent to ensure it's straightforward and accessible for all to apply. Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and improve our ability to reach our most vulnerable client groups. But we also know there is no one-size fits-all when it comes to recruitment - so if we didn't quite hit the mark for you, please let us know at [email protected] using the subject line: Payroll Officer enquiry via EthicalJobs. We're dedicated to ensuring Save the Children Australia is a place where everyone can feel supported - no matter your race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexuality, neurodiversity, culture and beliefs.

Save the Children Australia is a child-safe organisation. All employees are required to undergo a National Police Check, a Working with Children Check, and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct. We also support the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. You can read about the Scheme and our commitment to Safeguarding here.

Save the Children is committed to providing and maintaining a safe working environment for its employees and client groups, consistent with our obligations under OH&S legislation.

If you are having any issues with uploading your application for this role, please contact [email protected] for further support.