Payroll Specialist

Overview

Are you a payroll expert with at least 2 years' experience in New Zealand payroll and legislation? Do you have strong problem-solving skills, exceptional customer service, and are eager to learn new enterprise software? We would love to hear from you!

What’s On Offer

• Competitive salary + Benefits + tools of the trade
• Flexible working (location & hours)
• Join a fast-growing, exciting consultancy with a supportive team
• Opportunity to work with a variety of enterprise-level systems across different industries
• Part time, on average 28 hours a week but may require some flexibility
  
  

About Us: We’re a fast-growing consultancy specializing in enterprise payroll, time and attendance, and workforce solutions. With over 50 years of combined experience, working for some of the largest employers and software vendors across New Zealand and Australia, we help businesses in New Zealand stay compliant with payroll legislation, improve their processes, and drive business decisions with payroll and workforce data. We’re passionate about payroll and committed to delivering the best solutions to our clients.

About The Role

As the Payroll Specialist, you will work closely with our enterprise clients, supporting them with their payroll processing, system administration, and data validation. You will be working across payroll and time and attendance, alongside the client and being solution and outcome oriented.

Don’t worry, you do not need to know everything about every piece of software. However, experience with Ready Workforce (Zambion), SuccessFactors and/or Xero Payroll would be preferred.

Key Areas Of Responsibility Will Include

• Accurately process payroll for a diverse workforce, ensuring compliance with all regulatory requirements
• Forming close relationships with various client stakeholders and truly understanding their business
• Collaborate with the client to resolve payroll issues and improve payroll processing procedures.
• Maintain accurate payroll records and assist in audits when needed.
• Interpreting legislation, policy and contracts and applying this to software systems
• Provide support to employees regarding payroll inquiries and discrepancies.
• Continuously learn and adapt to new payroll systems and technologies.
  
  

Skills And Experience

• You will be passionate about finding and providing solutions and driven to find answers
• Strong payroll processing experience is a necessity, and you have a good understanding of the NZ legislation and compliance
• Ready Workforce (Zambion), SuccessFactors and/or Xero experience would be preferred
• Always looking to try and improve/enhance processes and practices
• High quality verbal and written communication with the ability to interact with stakeholders at any level
• You are goal and outcome driven, confident, self-motivated, and able to work independently but also in a team environment
• Taking ownership of tasks and delivering high-quality results within the deadlines and timeframes
• Highly flexible and adaptable to changing priorities and evolving payroll requirements
• You like to be constantly learning and challenging yourself
• Technically savvy, quick to learn new systems
• Intermediate to advanced user of the MS Office suite, particularly Word and Excel
• Experience across multiple payroll systems would be an advantage
  
  

What You Will Receive

• Work with a group of like-minded and supportive people
• Flexible working arrangements (time, location)
• Competitive salary, tools of the trade
• Great employee benefits
• Beautiful office space in central Howick with free parking
• Get an opportunity to learn a variety of enterprise-level systems across multiple industries
  
  

Please note that all applicants to this role will require the right to work in New Zealand