AddressFinance Officer
Employment Services and Accounting
About Sydney Catholic Early Childhood Services:
Sydney Catholic Early Childhood Services (SCECS) is a not-for-profit service catering to children and families from our Catholic schools and the local community. SCECS currently operates Outside School Hours Care and Early Childhood Services at several Catholic schools and Parishes within the Sydney Archdiocese.
Role Purpose
In Employment Services, this role will respond and provide guidance and advice to employees and management in payroll-related queries maintaining compliance with relevant statutory and award requirements and contributing to the payroll preparation. This role will work with the recruitment team to on-board and off-board staff professionally and effectively. This role will also contribute to day-to-day transaction processing tasks (receipting, payables, end of the month) as delegated and monitor compliance with accounting standards and relevant legislation.
This role will report to the Financial Controller.
Major Accountabilities
Employment services
● Maintain up-to-date knowledge of the relevant legislation, industrial awards, agreements and instruments and the implications of changes.
● Respond to employment queries and provide relevant information, explanations and advice to employees in a professional, trustworthy and responsive manner.
● Advise managers and employees on straightforward payroll queries, in relation to awards and enterprise agreements, policies, rates of pay and conditions; resolving and address the query and raise any issue with a recommendation to the manager responsible.
● Escalate complex payroll queries such as award and enterprise agreement interpretation, and industrial
relations matters; and effectively communicate solutions and resolutions.
● Working with the Recruitment Officers to implement and monitor the onboarding, personnel file
maintenance and exit processes for employees and contingent workers.
● Evaluate internal feedback to inform and facilitate high-quality, responsive Employment Services.
● Monitor the personnel data stored in the workforce management systems and ensure the currency
and accuracy of this information.
● As required, prepare and check the quality of mandatory employment-related data reports internally
and to external agencies.
● Set up and maintain an employee’s payroll configuration in the payroll system and ensure retention of
support documentation
● Amend the employee set-up to reflect approved amendments to the employment contracts
Transaction processing
● Prepare, document and process journals to the general and subledgers including accruals and deferrals as required.
● Perform other financial processes to enable segregation of duties.
● Contribute to the end-of-month reconciliations and analysis.
● Contribute to and support the annual audit planning, allocation of tasks, development of walkthroughs and respond to the auditor’s queries and information requests.
● Monitor compliance with accounting standards policies, procedures and relevant legislation.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
● Minimum 3 years in Employment Services or payroll accounting
● Strong commitment to the traditions and teachings of the Catholic faith
● Payroll and Accounting system knowledge (SAP HCM, PHRIS, PeopleSoft, TechOne)
● Intermediate Excel and computer literacy (MS Office Suite, Google platform)
● Familiarity with National Employment Standards and Modern Awards frameworks
● Willingness to learn new systems and technology
● Exceptional attention to detail, problem solving and analytical skills
● Strong communication skills
Desirable
● Minimum 2 years’ experience working with children/working in a school environment
Qualifications
Essential
● HSC or Equivalent
● Post-secondary experience in Employment Services and payroll
● Working with Children Check
● National Police Check (no older than 6 months from commencement date)
Desirable
● Professional Association Membership or working towards
Ready to make a difference?
Submit your application with:
- Cover letter
- Resume
Working with Children Clearance:
This role is classified as child-related work and therefore we require a working with children clearance to be completed before your commencement with us.
If you have any queries regarding the recruitment process, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team at scecs.careers@syd.catholic.edu.au
Please note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. All applicants require current and valid working rights in Australia.
To apply online, please click on the appropriate link below.
