About the job

About Waste Services Group (WSG)

Waste Services Group (‘WSG’) is one of Australia’s largest integrated providers of managed services, collections, specialised services, and post-collections services to the SME resource recovery market.

We connect our customers with tailored solutions they can rely on. Taking the challenge of making every day more sustainable. The business continues to have significant organic and inorganic growth and with our sustainability plans, is an exciting time to be joining the team.

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Payroll Officer to join our payroll team. For any payroll professional that is looking to build new skills and experiences this is the job for you as we are about to launch a new HRIS and Payroll partnering with Workday.

The Payroll Administrator is responsible for the provision of accurate and timely payment of wages and salaries in line with legislative requirements, policies and procedures, as well as high level customer service to management and employees on conditions of employment matters.

The position will play a lead role in coordinating payroll activities including payroll related enquiries and payroll processing, ensuring appropriate levels of quality, and compliance is met in line with appropriate legislation, regulations, policy and procedures.

This role is a full-time role with a hybrid working arrangement with flexibility in choosing which days of the week you come into the office.

Your responsibilities will include:

Process end to end weekly and monthly payrolls including adjustments, tracking leave, salary packaging, reporting and payroll filing. This role will cover payroll over six of our legal entities with approximately 650 staff overall with staff in VIC, NSW and QLD

Updating and maintenance of payroll system history and records

Awards/agreements interpretation and application

Calculate, check and administrate leave reports and leave provisions

Prepare monthly superannuation payments to a Super Clearing House and Super Funds

Maintenance and payment to external organisations of all related employee deductions

End of financial year payroll processing, including the balancing and production of employee income statements through STP

Timely resolution of employee enquiries

Continuously strive for process improvements in the payroll function

Assist with HR payroll related queries and requests for employee information or reports

Keep up to date with relevant legislation information, (i.e. changes to ATO requirements, Superannuation and relevant Modern Awards)

Experience and skills:

Demonstrated experience in a similar end to end role within payroll, performing the end-to-end function as a stand-alone individual

Proven ability to interpret employee conditions such as awards and/or enterprise agreements as well as a sound understanding of current legislation such as superannuation and long service leave

A sound understanding of termination calculations including all leave types, superannuation and eligible termination payments

Proven ability to work independently and be responsible for payroll overall, meeting deliverables in a timely manner, as well as having the ability to work within a collaborative team environment and being a team player

Demonstrated multi-tasking and problem-solving skills

Strong attention to detail and thoroughness in dealing with queries and issues

Desirable:

Experience using Workday HCM, Absence or Payroll OR

Experience using larger payroll systems like ADP, Dayforce or I Chris

Experience with any of the following awards: Waste Management Award, Vehicle Award or Clerks Award

Qualifications in Payroll

Why WSG?

The fastest growing Waste Management company in Australia, all the WSG businesses stem from individuals with strong entrepreneurship and customer focus, and a belief that the people in the business are the most important part of their business. Even though these businesses have joined to become WSG, our culture still holds the intimacy of a family-business, the nimbleness of being entrepreneurial and outcomes-focused offering the flexibility to achieve your goals in the way you like. With an incredible growth trajectory, our cultural focus is to maintain what we have, while we professionalise for scalability.

We live our values, all day, every day

Wellbeing – flu shots and EAP

Barista coffee machine and onsite parking

Career development - development plans that incorporate in-house training, mentoring and on-the-job skill development and coaching

Competitive salary package

If you don’t tick every box in this job description, please don’t rule yourself out. Research suggests that women and other people in underrepresented groups tend to only apply if they meet every requirement. We focus on hiring people who value inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, courage, and integrity, rather than ticking boxes – so if this resonates with you, then please apply.