AddressSlalom Australia
Slalom is a fiercely human consulting company focused on end-to-end business transformation enabled by technology. With 20-plus years of experience and operating in 47 markets around the world, Slalom teams have the autonomy to move fast and do what's right for our clients, making us more personal and nimbler than traditional consulting firms. At Slalom, we offer variety, fulfillment, and balance. You can work with the world's top companies, keep up with the latest technology, flex your skills across industries, pursue your life outside of work and, spend quality time with your family. After launching our Australian offices in January 2020, we are continuing to grow, and the below role is yet another opportunity to start your journey with Slalom and help us shape the future.
The Role / The Team:
Slalom’s fast-paced, highly collaborative Global People Team (GPT) is seeking a Senior Payroll Specialist to complete daily, weekly, and ongoing payroll-related activities for Australia and New Zealand. Working closely with the APAC Payroll Manager and payroll vendors, the Senior Payroll Specialist will support the payroll processes, including auditing and ensuring compliance with internal policies, practices and regional laws. This individual will be hands-on, flexible, dependable and 100% committed to accuracy. They will have the ability to work in a strong team-oriented environment and provide support as needed.
This role can be based in either Sydney or Melbourne.
What will you do?
- Process monthly and off-cycle payrolls for Australia and New Zealand.
- Reconcile payroll vendor gross-to-net payroll calculations.
- Validate payroll data flows accurately from HR system to payroll vendor system.
- Manage monthly annual leave balances and reconciliation.
- Reconcile and file monthly tax liability with tax agencies.
- Work closely with partners in HR Operations, Compensation, and Benefits Teams
- Complete year-end related tasks.
- Liaise with external payroll providers.
- Respond to employee inquiries via a ticketing system.
- Delivers high-quality written and verbal communications within own team and cross-functionally.
- Provides insight to improve or update established processes or policies.
- Special projects as assigned.
What You’ll Bring
- Proven record of accuracy with strong attention to detail, planning and organisation skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated proficiency with technology, MS Office Suite, Outlook, Teams, etc.
- Proven ability to work well within a team and individually, especially remote/virtual.
- Excellent business and employee customer service skills.
- Ability to work in a professional environment and handle confidential information.
- ADP Celergo payroll experience preferred.
- Workday experience is a plus.
Our Values
Our culture and values reflect each individual Slalomer. We are dedicated to encouraging workplace diversity and ensuring all our people, from any background can contribute to their full potential. We wish to build a team that echoes the diversity of the communities we serve, and our values are an active part of our every day, guiding our decisions.
What keeps us here?
When we moved to Australia in 2020, we had no idea just how important our work/life balance would need to be. We’ve asked our consultants what makes Slalom a great place to work and the most common answer – “the freedom to be ourselves when life gets in the way”. We make a big effort to bring everyone together and allow space when space is needed. We believe in helping each other thrive in work and life and are proud to invest in benefits that include holistic wellbeing, meaningful allowances and investment in our team’s professional, technical and personal growth.
Slalom prides itself on helping our team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in our team members with competitive and innovative benefit programs and services that meet the unique needs of our diverse workforce.
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