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Senior Payroll Officer


Financial Performance & Digital; Finance and Procurement; Enabling Solutions Group; Brisbane

As a Senior Payroll Officer, you will work with a team of passionate Payroll professionals working in partnership with a range of business areas across the department. If you like variety and challenge, then this role is for you. You will be involved in delivering a range of Payroll services, including providing Payroll advice, undertake User Acceptance Testing, general ledger reconciliation, payroll issue investigation, working with staff to resolve issues, providing coaching, training and support to senior leaders and staff.

Job details

Position status Permanent
Position type Flexible full-time
Occupational group HR & Industrial Relations
Classification AO5
Workplace Location Brisbane Inner City
Job ad reference QLD/647637/25
Closing date 22-Jul-2025
Job duration
Contact person Lyn Zhou
Contact details Ph: (07) 3066 6015
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Key Responsibilities:

• Supporting the management team by contributing to operational planning and performance measures including collating and preparing reports, documents and correspondence to customers, management and staff.
• Manage workloads and tasks, implement internal controls, review processing and service standards and develop User Acceptance Testing (UAT) scripts and perform and report test results.
• Research, investigate and analyse human resource management and payroll processing issues and recommend effective solutions to support payroll and establishment activities.
• Maintaining knowledge of relevant human resource and payroll related policies, entitlements, procedures and business process as well as an understanding of the business operation and structure of the department.
• Effectively communicate and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to identify and support the implementation of business improvement opportunities and optimise human resource, payroll and establishment services, processes and systems.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.

Job Ad Reference: QLD/647637/25

Closing Date: Tuesday, 22 July 2025

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