Address- Leverage your leadership and payroll governance experience in this rewarding role.
- Work for a values-oriented, leading customer-owned bank.
- Permanent, full-time hybrid opportunity, with Newcastle-based offices.
Purpose of the role
Greater Bank and Newcastle Permanent have come together to form NGM Group, a leader in customer-owned banking. We currently have an exciting, permanent, full-time opportunity available for a dynamic senior payroll professional to join our high-performing, collaborative finance team.
As our Payroll Manager, you’ll lead the Payroll Team and function for NGM Group and will be responsible for ensuring the accurate completion of NGM Group’s end-to-end payroll process via TechnologyOne, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation, enterprise agreements, modern awards and internal procedures. Offering a welcoming, supportive team environment, with ongoing learning and development on offer, this is a fantastic opportunity to build upon your leadership experience and further your payroll management career!
What will your key responsibilities include?
- Providing supportive and effective leadership to the Payroll team (approx. 5 staff) to ensure the accurate completion of NGM Group’s end-to-end payroll process, ensuring the team meets appropriate service levels and effectively delivers its key business function.
- Representing Payroll during audits, including providing investigation and management action for any findings.
- Representing Payroll for relevant NGM Group initiatives and projects.
- Assisting with the development of, and drive, data, process and system strategy for the Payroll function.
- Staying abreast of legislation and regulations related to payroll, ensuring payroll practices align with legal requirements and promptly addressing any discrepancies or issues. Where relevant, complete and document legislative reviews.
- On management request, generate and distribute payroll reports, including analysis of payroll data to identify trends, discrepancies, and areas for improvement.
- Managing month and year end processing in accordance with procedure and process.
- Collaborate with HR & Payroll Systems Analysts to investigate complex process improvements and prioritise outstanding requests.
What are we looking for?
- Demonstrated experience in payroll governance, providing legislative and regulatory guidance to the business, ensuring payroll practices align with legal requirements.
- Proven experience (5+ years) in payroll administration, with demonstrated proficiency in payroll processing and compliance (minimum payroll > than 500 staff).
- Proven experience (5+ years) in a leadership role, delivering positive results for your team and the business, and supporting your team’s growth and development.
- In-depth knowledge of payroll legislation and processes including tax, superannuation, and long service leave.
- Demonstrated experience in business process improvement.
- Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to work with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Highly developed communications skills and the ability to establish working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
What can you expect from us?
NGM Group employees can take advantage of the following work perks:
Health and wellbeing; Fitness passport, corporate health insurance and annual flu vaccination.
Lifestyle and giving back; Flexible work including hybrid arrangements, hotel discounts, 14 weeks paid parental leave, two community volunteer days per year and three recreational leave days per year.
Professional advancement; Diverse career opportunities, recognition programs and employee referral program.
About us
We’re NGM Group, and we offer retail banking services to more than half a million Australians under the brands Greater Bank and Newcastle Permanent.
We have fresh energy and big goals for our customers, and our people are key to us achieving this success. If you’re ready to be part of a team that puts the customer first and enjoys a challenge as the path to growth and innovation, then … we want you!
Collectively, we’re the largest customer-owned bank based on net assets and the 10th largest Australian-owned bank for household deposits. A financial powerhouse headquartered in the Hunter, we have a workforce of more than 1,600 people and total assets of more than $20 billion.
