Location: Hybrid - World Square, CBD and WFH
Commencement Date: Immediate start or by negotiation
Closing Date: Sunday, 25 May 2025
Capacity: Full-time, Permanent

About the Role

The Specialist: Payroll Compliance plays a pivotal role in ensuring compliance and governance across Sydney Catholic Schools' (SCS) human resource and payroll system, which supports approximately 11,000 employees. This role focuses on reviewing, designing and embedding a robust payroll governance framework, proactively addressing risks, identifying opportunities for optimising payroll processes, and ensuring full adherence to legislative and policy requirements.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Subject Matter Expertise: ensuring strategic and operational payroll governance and compliance across critical areas like system production, configuration, superannuation, taxation, and reconciliation
• Governance Controls: review and enhance payroll governance controls to ensure effectiveness, safeguard processes and ensure adherence.

• Upskilling Initiatives: facilitating professional learning for the payroll team on governance requirements and legislative updates
• Risk Mitigation: identifying, addressing, and resolving payroll risks to secure accurate and timely payroll outcomes.

• Compliance Program: assisting in enhancing the internal Compliance program for payroll activities
• Policy Updates: tracking and responding to payroll-related legislative and policy changes, supporting the Supervisor: Payroll in managing these updates
• Cross-Department Collaboration: partnering with People and Culture functions to align on compliance needs and audit management.

• Continuous Improvement: identifying opportunities to enhance payroll systems and processes
• Discrepancy Management: supporting the payroll team with investigations and resolutions of payroll discrepancies.

• Core Expertise and Governance
• Team Development and Risk Management
• Compliance and Policy Adaptation
• Process Optimisation

Why Work for Sydney Catholic Schools

In joining SCS, you will be part of the largest Catholic education community in NSW, with a unified vision and shared resources, encompassing over 145 schools and over 74,000 students. We enable job mobility across the system, diverse career opportunities and an extensive suite of professional development programs.

SCS is renowned for excellence, with six schools in the top 100 and 13 in the top 150 of the 2024 HSC rankings. Over 51% of results were Band 5 or 6, and our students achieved 2,819 Distinguished Achiever mentions.

Be part of a system that fosters academic, creative, and vocational success, shaping future leaders every step of the way.

In addition, we offer:

• a competitive salary of $138,140 per annum plus superannuation
• up to 25% discount on school fees for parents of SCS students
• ongoing training and development opportunities
• discounts on gym classes and memberships, activewear, healthy meals, and wellbeing products
• ex-gratia leave between Christmas and New Year
• generous Employee Referral Program.

About You

The successful candidate will also possess the following:

• relevant tertiary qualification or certification in payroll, accounting or significant relevant professional experience and eligibility for membership of a recognised professional accounting organisation
• proven track record in large volume payroll, of at least 2,500 employees +
• minimum 3 years Payroll experience
• experience in complex Award / EA interpretation
• comprehensive knowledge and experience applying and adhering to payroll and employment legislation, regulations and industrial instruments
• experience in effectively implementing payroll governance controls
• demonstrated ability to accurately interpret and apply relevant industrial awards and agreements
• demonstrated experience in interpreting and following departmental procedures and government regulations affecting payrolls
• a strong working knowledge of HRIS, Microsoft Office, Excel and Google suite is paramount
• willingness to respect, support and uphold the mission, ethos and teachings of the Catholic Church and the values of Sydney Catholic Schools
• experience with the PeopleSoft system and working in Education is highly desirable.

Application Process

To apply for this position please click the APPLY button and follow the prompts.

To support your application, you will be required to provide the following

• current CV

cover letter.

If you encounter technical issues or for any general enquiries please contact the People & Culture Services team on (02) 9568 8297 (8am-5pm, Mon-Fri).

Statement of Commitment to Child Safety
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Working With Children Check (WWCC)
This role is classified as child-related work and therefore requires a WWCC clearance prior to commencement of employment.

SCS welcomes and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and candidates with diverse backgrounds.