Payroll & Finance Officer

At Very Special Kids, we nurture and foster a culture where our team is empowered, supported and safe through the process of caring for children and families. As part of our diverse, expert team you will have access to education and training to enhance your personal and professional development; expert specialist resources; hybrid working models and the well-being support you need to make a bigger impact in the lives of children and their families.

Very Special Kids house and head office is located at our Malvern site on Glenferrie Road.  We have a fantastic opportunity for a Payroll and Finance Officer to join our team.  Our newly re-opened state-of-the-art hospice (including hydro-therapy pool) is a world class facility to support the complex needs of the children and young people in our care.  

About Very Special Kids:

At Very Special Kids, we believe that all children and young people have the right to a quality of life, no matter how long or short their life may be. We are a highly respected organisation with circa 100 employees and over 600 volunteers who provide essential, free-of-charge, palliative care services for children and young people living with a life-liming condition.  Very Special Kids provides specialist services for the whole family, including counselling, peer support, bereavement support and respite or end of life care at Victoria’s only hospice for children and young people.

The Payroll and Finance Officer is responsible for:

• Ensuring timely and accurate processing of end-to-end payroll on a fortnightly cycle.
• Responding and liaising with employees regarding wage and salary queries in a timely manner.
• Ensuring our payroll system is appropriately updated with relevant wage rates and allowances in line with relevant awards and enterprise agreements.
• Working collaboratively with the team on process improvements to the fortnightly payroll and system upgrades.
• Maintaining payroll records for existing employees as well as new starters and terminations, including tax calculations.
• Ensure appropriate auditing procedures are followed.
• Preparing payroll reporting as well as other ad hoc reports as required.

This is an autonomous role, supported by our General Manager Business & Finance and working closely with our General Manager People & Culture and managers across the business. Working hours are flexible for the right candidate in considering our payroll cycle you would need to be available Monday and Tuesday each fortnight for payroll processing and reporting.

Very Special Kids offers its employees a unique and rewarding environment including a supportive team, beautiful setting conveniently located to shops, parking and transport in Malvern, salary packaging, health & wellbeing initiatives, and targeted individual development plans.  

At Very Special Kids, our goal is for our workforce to reflect the diverse community we serve.  We continually seek to employ people of any gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, with a disability, Aboriginal Australians and varied cultural backgrounds.  If this sounds like you, please take a look at the position description on our website   www.vsk.org.au.

Applications are open until Sunday 21st of April . Please include a cover letter, addressing the key selection criteria and an updated copy of your resume via  ****@vsk.org.au.   We will review applications as they are received.

Very Special Kids is committed to providing a child-safe environment and requires all staff to have Working with Children Check and Police Record Checks.  Clinical Services staff are also required to provide evidence to demonstrate vaccination against COVID-19 and seasonal flu vaccinations.