Senior Payroll Officer

Santos is a global energy company committed to increasingly cleaner energy and fuels production, with operations across Australia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and North America.
At Santos, our commitment is to be a global leader in the transition to cleaner energy and clean fuels, by helping the world decarbonise to reach Net-Zero emissions in an affordable and sustainable way.
Santos is one of Australia's biggest domestic gas suppliers, a leading LNG supplier in the Asia Pacific region. We are committed to supplying the critical fuels such as oil and gas in a more sustainable way through decarbonising projects such as the Moomba CCS project, while we all transition to cleaner fuels.
For more than 65 years Santos has been working in partnership with local communities, providing local jobs and business opportunities, safely and sustainably developing its natural gas resources, and powering industries and households.
As customer demand evolves, Santos will grow and develop its cleaner energy and clean fuels, including hydrogen through carbon capture and storage, nature-based offsets, energy efficiency and use of renewables in its operations.
To deliver the transition and our Purpose and Vision, Santos has a regional operating model with a strong local focus. The company's operating structure comprises three regional business units focused on enabling and executing corporate strategy. Two functional divisions - Santos Energy Solutions and Santos Upstream Gas and Liquids - are accountable for global portfolio management and strategy.
About the role
A great opportunity is available for an experienced Senior Payroll Officer to work collaboratively as a part of a high performing payroll team. The position reports directly to the Team Leader, Payroll People & Culture and proactively contributes to the provision of a customer centric, payroll service for all sites and locations in accordance with relevant legislation and compliance requirements, enterprise agreements, and other related instructions and contracts.
The role also offers a chance to further develop your skills develop and your career, with an organisation that offers a diversity of activities, global reach and that values continuous improvements and innovation.
Key responsibilities and accountabilities of the role include:

• Accountable for the preparation, processing and delivery of accurate and on time payroll, leave and human resource information through interpretation, data input, checking, quality control
• Supporting with team leadership and upskilling of the payroll team and the P&C function
• Payroll Tax and Superannuation reconciliations
• Query resolution to ensure employees receive high quality and responsive services
• Using required tools and systems to manage workloads and communicate with stakeholders, advising of progress and actions including P&C ticketing tools
• Working to deliver services in alignment with SLA's and KPI's
• Support with activities including data and reporting to assist with effective and efficient audits
• Support with the leadership and upskilling of our payroll team
• Lead and support improvement projects to optimise payroll and our employees experience.
• Support with audit activities and build strong relationships with our finance and compliance teams

About you
The successful candidate will bring demonstrated senior work experience in a payroll environment
in a large complex organisation. You will be highly resilient, perseverant with lateral problem-solving skills with a demonstrated capability to work collaboratively with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.
Ideally you will have used SAP Success Factors, possess strong excel skills and have a systems approach.
To be successful in this role you will need to display strong attention to detail with an ability to meet competing deadlines, an analytical approach and a drive for excellence. If this sounds like an opportunity you would be interested in, then we want to hear from you!
Supporting a Diverse Workforce
Santos acknowledges that we operate on the traditional lands of Aboriginal people. We recognise the traditional rights to maintain the culture, identities, traditions, and customs on their country. We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome - they are essential to our ongoing success.
We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, or anything else that makes us different.
Australian Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander jobseekers are strongly encouraged to apply.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted via the online recruitment system before COB Friday, 19th January 2024
A requirement of this role is that you will need to have in place the legal work rights for Australia to apply. (Remove if advertised position is outside of Australia).
Potential Scams
There are a number of fake adverts that are impersonating Santos Limited, in these instances you will receive an e-mail from a generic e-mail address. We do not make offers without interviews or due diligence taking place. You will know if an advert is genuine if you are directed to the Santos company careers page to apply which is
https://recruitment.santos.com/