Payroll Officer

8 month initial contract
Hybrid working environment
Surry Hills

What’s the role?
This is an exciting opportunity to join News Corp Australia as a Payroll Officer on a 8-month contract, based in Surry Hills, close to Central Station. As part of one of the nation’s most influential media organisations, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring the accurate and timely processing of payroll for our diverse workforce. In this dynamic position, you’ll have the chance to work closely with a collaborative team, tackling payroll processing, employee inquiries, and regulatory compliance, all while supporting key payroll system updates and large-scale projects. With the chance to work for iconic Australian brands, this role offers great exposure to a wide range of payroll functions, providing the ideal platform to grow your career. Whether you’re assisting with monthly pay runs, refining processes, or contributing to high-impact projects, you’ll have a real opportunity to make a difference.

In this role you will:

• Assist in the timely and accurate processing of payroll, ensuring employee records are up-to-date and payroll calculations are correct.
• Handle employee inquiries related to pay, deductions, and taxes, providing excellent customer service and support.
• Support payroll system maintenance and updates, contributing to smooth and efficient operations.
• Collaborate with HR and finance teams to ensure accurate employee data management and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Contribute to large-scale payroll projects, including assisting with the preparation of payroll reports and tax filings.

Who are you?

• You have 1-2 years of previous payroll experience, ideally in a large corporate environment, and are familiar with payroll processes.
• You possess strong proficiency in Excel and are technologically savvy, with the ability to quickly learn new payroll systems.
• You are detail-oriented, proactive, and highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines effectively.
• You have excellent customer service skills, able to respond to employee inquiries with professionalism and empathy.
• You demonstrate strong initiative, adaptability, and a willingness to take on new challenges, contributing positively to the team and organisation.

Who are we?

News.com.au is Australia’s leading commercial news site, delivering the biggest news events, from here and the world, and reaching an average monthly audience of over 11.2 million^. This exclusively digital news room is powered by a team of more than 60 dedicated journalists reporting the news across multiple platforms including desktop, mobile, social, podcasts and our app. news.com.au keeps you up-to-date with the news that matters to you. Be it politics, sport, lifestyle or entertainment, we will be on top of it, so you can be too.

What’s next?

Apply now or for more information on careers at News Corp Australia visit www.newscorpaustralia.com/careers

We know that diversity strengthens our teams and newsrooms as we seek to tell stories that represent the diverse communities of Australia that we serve. Our people make us unique and we all have a story. We encourage people of all ages, backgrounds, races, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, abilities and gender identities to apply. Inclusion is important to us and we want everyone at News to bring their whole-selves to work. If you require any accommodations or adjustments throughout the recruitment process, or would like to outline which pronouns you prefer, please feel free to let us know.