Payroll Manager

About Retinue

Retinue Accounting was founded on the belief that small business accounting support should be customer service focused, proactive and forward-looking, and upfront about fees and charges. Our fixed fee subscription model ensures our clients have peace of mind that we’ll give them the right advice, at the right time, at the right price with no hidden additional costs.

We're more than a business – we're a team driven by our values and actions. Adaptability, commitment, and humility fuel our client-centered approach. We honour our promises, promote transparency, and move swiftly with purpose. We embrace new challenges, and proactively raise issues with a solutions mindset, knowing it takes a team effort to build a successful business.

The role 

As a Payroll Manager at Retinue, you will be leading and growing a team responsible for the accurate and timely processing of payroll for our diverse client base. Leveraging your extensive experience in payroll processing, you will support our team to ensure that our clients' payroll operations are efficient, accurate, and compliant with tax legislation.

Our Payroll team are not responsible for calculating employee hours, rates of pay or entitlements, which we consider to be employment relations work and outside the scope of our payroll processing service. We are however responsible for helping our clients make payroll processing less of a burden and making sense of complex ATO/tax obligations

Key Responsibilities

• Leadership of our payroll team, ensuring that payroll processing for our clients is completed on time, is accurate, and hassle-free.
• Ensure compliance with tax legislation and reporting requirements of different states and territories.
• Oversee superannuation reconciliations and lodgements.
• Ensure the team are accurately reporting, managing and lodging payroll information through the Single Touch Payroll system.
• Resolve escalated payroll issues and queries, collaborating with clients, internal stakeholders, and external authorities when necessary.
• Stay up to date with changes in tax legislation that may impact payroll processing.
• Provide supervision to junior team members, including offshore team members, to help foster their professional growth and development.
• Oversee year-end payroll activities and reconciliations

Requirements

• Strong experience leading a payroll team in either a high volume, complex organisation or within a public practice.
• Experience in providing ongoing development and training to members of a payroll team.
• Xero payroll software experience is essential; experience using MYOB highly advantageous.
• In-depth knowledge of tax legislation to the extent it relates to payroll processing.
• Ability to manage multiple client priorities, meet deadlines, and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy

Benefits

• Flexible working options available, ability to work from home following probation.
• Great location close to public transport, with beautiful, serviced offices and first-class amenities
• Financial support with any formal studies and institute membership fees
• Training and professional development relevant to your role, provided by our dedicated in-house training and development team.
• Exceptional professional growth opportunities in a fast-growing business, including (but not limited to) management opportunities or lateral opportunities.
• Become a part of our growth story, work in a high performance and dynamic organisation that recognises success with career progression and further opportunities.

Salary 

• $100000-120,000 pa + super 

Our Commitment

We believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion are crucial to our success. We recognise that diversity goes beyond race and ethnicity, and includes differences in gender, orientation, age, religion, ability, and more. We strive to create a workplace where everyone feels comfortable being themselves and can fully contribute their talents and skills. We are dedicated to building a workplace that values and respects individuals from all backgrounds and experiences. We welcome and encourage all qualified applicants to apply. 

What's Next?

Apply now to join our team and contribute to the success of an Australian small business!