Payroll Quality Assurance Lead
- Newcastle, NSW, Australia
- Fixed Term - Task Specific
- Closing on: Jun 12 2025
- Progress with purpose at one of Australia’s largest health care providers
- Get ahead with salary packaging, benefits and professional development in a supportive team environment
- Work within an organisation that provides exposure to 48 separate Enterprise Agreements/Awards.
- Embrace a rewarding 9–12 month contract role, providing essential support during a colleague's parental leave.
About the role
The Payroll Quality Assurance Lead will play a pivotal role in ensuring payroll compliance across Calvary’s enterprise agreements and awards. The position will assist with the implementation of new enterprise agreements and awards, with a focus on creating and updating new wage tables and allowances where applicable. Backpayment calculations and processing will also form a crucial component of the role. Calvary have 48 Enterprise Agreements and Awards, and some increases may require backdating.
The role will also provide strategic insights into tracking and trending data of payroll issues through a triage ticketing system, as well as reporting and monitoring key compliance issues, through the payroll internal audit process.
The position will be accountable for documenting and publishing payroll processes and ensuring that effective service level procedures are created and maintained within the organisation. Reporting to the Payroll Quality Assurance Manager, the position will have a key focus on reviewing payroll processes and make recommendations for continuous improvement and automation wherever possible.
The position will be accountable for documenting and publishing payroll processes and ensuring that effective service level procedures are created and maintained within the organisation. Reporting to the Payroll Quality Assurance Manager, the position will have a key focus on reviewing payroll processes and make recommendations for continuous improvement and automation wherever possible.
Your main duties will include:
- Assist with new enterprise agreement builds, by providing system setup recommendations, compliance reviews, creation of new wage tables and allowances.
- Maintain Calvary’s current wage tables, ensuring new changes and increases are applied, including backpayment calculation and processing if required.
About you
- Effectively gathers information, analyses problems, makes sound judgments and develops appropriate solutions.
- Applies, maintains and improves on in-depth specialist knowledge.
- Comprehensive experience with Microsoft Excel and the Chris21 payroll system.
- Sound oral and written communication skills, distinguished by its positive impact and use of influencing behaviours.
- Minimum 5 years payroll experience.
- Plans and schedules effectively and maintains strong controls and attention to detail to ensure timely delivery of services.
For further information please contact Brad Knott, Payroll Quality Assurance Manager on brad.knott@calvarycare.org.au.
Why work for Calvary?
At Calvary, our staff matter.
With over 130 years’ experience and 18,000 staff and volunteers, we offer an inclusive and welcoming culture where you are valued, drawing on your own strengths, identity and background alongside a team of professionals who care for our patients, residents and clients.
Your benefits:
- NFP salary packaging benefits, discounted health insurance and gym memberships
- Paid parental leave.
- Training, development pathways and career opportunities
- Flexible hours that make sense for you
As we serve the community across Home, Virtual and Residential Aged Care, Retirement Living and Hospitals, one thing sets us apart. Care from the heart. If this sounds like you, apply for a role with Calvary today.
Please note the following:
- As part of the application process, you will be required to complete pre-employment checks which may include, but is not limited to reference checks, work rights, criminal history check, NDIS/WWCC/WWVP checks, and a health evaluation to ensure suitability for the role
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