Payroll Officer

Where excellence meets opportunity - discover your next chapter with cohealth

• Full time, ongoing role
• Work for a multi-award-winning iconic community health organisation
• Generous salary packaging options to reduce your cohealth taxable income

So why cohealth?

cohealth leads the way in reducing health and social inequity in partnership with people and the communities in which they live. Named Premier's Health Service of the Year (Primary) and the Supporting LGBTIQ+ Health Service at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards, cohealth's 1000 staff demonstrate courage, leadership, innovation, and agility in their commitment to providing inclusive and culturally safe health services that protect the human rights of all people of all gender identities, sexualities, ages, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, faiths, and abilities.

About the role

The Payroll Officer is responsible for processing cohealth's payroll to ensure the accurate and timely payment to employees with respect of their salaries, wages and all other entitlements. They ensure cohealth's compliance with laws and regulations with respect of its payroll obligations.

Please refer to the Position Description for more information.

Your duties include:

• Ensure all cohealth staff are paid accurately and on time.
• Complete all work and payroll processing in accordance with cohealth's established practices, values, polices, procedures, and industrial and legislative obligations.
• Input all aspects of payroll data entry with a high degree of accuracy including the set-up and maintenance of all payroll records within the companies HRIS/payroll systems.
• Maintain employee files and payment records, including the filing and archiving of documentation

What cohealth offers:

• Exciting Parental leave benefits
  • cohealth offers primary carers 14 weeks paid parental leave upon completion of only 6 months of continuous service
  • Eligible co-workers will continue to receive superannuation on unpaid parental leave as well
• Novated Leasing available
• Counselling services for you and your immediate family through our EAP-Access provider, and mindfulness, resilience, and wellbeing programs
• We offer inclusion, equality, and opportunity in a workplace where making a difference counts (based on our guiding principles and values)

Our ideal candidate:

• Experience end-to-end payroll, including experience in working with multiple industrial instruments.
• Experience in the health industry desired.
• Proficiency in payroll packages Chris21 /iChris and Dayforce preferred
• Strong problem solving, reconciliation and analysis skills.
• Ability to manage varied, high priority tasks within limited time frames.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Police Check, a Working With Children Check (WWCC), complete a Statutory Declaration, evidence of legal rights to work in Australia, and evidence of vaccination against COVID-19 (3 doses). Additionally, some roles will also require current AHPRA registration and/or NDIS Worker Screening Clearance.

Roles that are determined to be Risk Category A or B [staff that have direct and/or indirect contact with body substances and are at higher risk of occupational exposure to infections] will be required to provide evidence of immunisation assessment including Influenza prior to commencement [A] or within 12 weeks of commencement [B]. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health Mandatory Vaccination Orders for COVID-19 and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.

Application Process