Payroll Analyst

About the Role

We are seeking a Payroll Analyst to be part of our Finance team at our West Perth corporate headquarters. Reporting to the Supervisor Payroll, this role is central to ensuring the precise, punctual, and compliant delivery of payroll services for a sizeable, complex workforce. This hands-on position involves payroll processing, reporting, reconciliations, enhancing the SAP payroll system, supporting audits, and resolving complex issues with broad exposure to the payroll function.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage complex payroll processing, reporting, reconciliations, and quality control to ensure accurate and compliant payroll results.
• Perform payroll reconciliations and reporting for pay periods, month-end, and year-end, including Single Touch Payroll (STP), PAYG, payroll tax, superannuation, and statutory obligations.
• Reconcile payroll data with the General Ledger and investigate any discrepancies to ensure accurate postings.
• Analyze payroll datasets, detect variances and complex issues, determine root causes, and facilitate timely resolution.
• Monitor payroll system configurations and data integrity, including tax tables, earning and deduction codes, and ledger mappings.
• Contribute to SAP Employee Central Payroll projects such as upgrades, migrations, configuration changes, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Assist with payroll audits and governance, refining policies, procedures, and controls to bolster payroll accuracy and efficiency.
• Collaborate with Payroll, HR, Finance, IT, and external partners, offering technical support and guidance to team members where necessary.

Qualifications and Experience

• Extensive experience managing payroll in complex, high-volume environments, ideally with responsibilities in payroll analysis, reporting, or senior payroll roles.
• Proficient in payroll reporting, reconciliation, and data analysis, skilled at identifying discrepancies and ensuring payroll accuracy.
• Experienced with SAP Employee Central Payroll or similar enterprise payroll platforms, familiar with payroll data, processes, and compliance controls.
• Knowledgeable of Australian payroll compliance including PAYG, superannuation, STP, Fringe Benefits Tax, and relevant procedures and policies.
• Ability to interpret payroll-related employment contracts, industrial agreements, awards, legislation, and internal policies.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills enabling management, reconciliation, and analysis of large, complex payroll data sets using formulas and pivot tables.
• Strong attention to detail, discretion, and ability to manage confidential information with effective stakeholder engagement.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with SAP EC, ECP, and S/4HANA integration, understanding the connection between employee, payroll, and finance data.
• Knowledge of payroll account postings, General Ledger reconciliations, Employee Termination Payments, and taxation.
• Relevant certifications such as Certificate IV in Payroll Administration, Diploma of Payroll Management, or equivalent experience preferred.
• Ability to balance routine payroll operations with project, process improvement, and system upgrade initiatives.

Additional Information

• Work schedule: Monday to Friday at West Perth office location.
• Company provides a contribution toward private health insurance.
• This is a maximum 12-month fixed-term contract position.