AddressA World of Opportunity Awaits
We are Fonterra, one of the world's largest dairy nutrition companies. Here in Australia, we collect milk from Aussie Farmers across Victoria and Tasmania, and our manufacturing sites turn this into the dairy foods you know and love in our supermarkets, including Perfect Italiano™, Mainland™, Western Star™, and Bega™. We also sell dairy ingredients to many of the world's leading food companies and partner with food services businesses across the country to get dairy foods into chefs' hands.
As a Co-operative created and owned by New Zealand dairy farmers, our collaboration, innovation, and passion have enabled us to share the goodness of our dairy with the world. We're committed to caring for the land, our animals, and every drop of milk, producing nutritious food with safe, quality ingredients loved here in Australia and around the world.
As part of the Fonterra Co-op, you'll be solving for a better future alongside a team connected by solid values as we strive to be a leader in dairy sustainability, dairy innovation and science, with a focus on New Zealand milk.
When you join Fonterra, you'll open yourself to a career of opportunities where you can grow with us by developing your skills, sharing your knowledge, and exploring diverse career paths that ignite your passions.
About the Opportunity
Fonterra are seeking an experienced and solutions focussed Senior Payroll Officer for our Australian-based operations.
This is an amazing opportunity for a highly skilled Senior Payroll professional to join a new, Australian-based Payroll team, in this business critical and highly visible role.
Reporting to the Payroll Manager AUS, this role will see you partner with the business providing critical, timely and accurate payroll services across our Australian regions to support our people. This includes the day-to-day management of employment lifecycle events, payment calculations and reporting, through to highly specialised, often complex technical delivery of legislative and contractual changes to ensure compliance with employment laws and policy.
As the Senior Payroll Officer, you will be working closely alongside the Payroll Officers, Senior Payroll Consultant and Payroll Consultant where you will be responsible for the efficient, effective, and accurate processing of all payroll and time and attendance related transactional processes for the Australia region. This includes time and attendance validation, payroll master data maintenance, quality and audit reporting and processing of in cycle and out of cycle pay runs.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Deliver consistent, high-quality service and performance outcomes for our internal customers and regulatory partners within our agreed service level agreements.
- Frequently assess the payroll, time and attendance systems and processes used by the Payroll Services team and business units.
- Provide strong leadership and development to the Payroll Services team.
- Drives improvements in quality or capacity across the team through process change or system improvement.
This role will provide the successful applicant with a career-defining challenge to join a newly formed team in a senior capacity, within a complex and high-performing, profitable business.
Based at our Richmond office (free parking) this role will see you operating within a hybrid work model, with work-from-home (WFH) flexibility.
About You
You are already an experienced payroll professional and have a desire to bring your best into this space to create value.
We are looking for experience gained within a large, complex, and multi-layered payroll department, coming from a business with both a white- and blue-collar workforce. Your expertise in navigating multiple agreements and legislative changes will see you excel in this position.
As the Senior Payroll Officer, you will have well versed knowledge in Australian payroll and employment legislation and have a desire to drive results and continuous improvements. You appreciate the importance of smooth-running processes, consistent and quality results delivered by a motivated team.
You will also have:
- 5+ years Australian Payroll or HR experience, ideally 3+ years in a senior role.
- Experience operating in payroll within an EBA environment.
- Experience dealing with unions will be highly regarded.
- Knowledge of iChris, Kronos advantageous.
The benefits of life at Fonterra
Our people and what they bring to our Co-op shape our success. We have a collaborative culture, inspiring leaders, and passionate people, making Fonterra a great place to work. We also offer competitive remuneration and a range of benefits, regardless of your role or location.
- We offer flexible working to ensure the job gets done whilst being there for life's important moments.
- With a global presence, a world of career opportunities awaits you.
- We support your health and wellbeing with events, discounts on wellbeing products, and employee assistance programs.
- We encourage lifelong learning and will help you develop your skills.
- Enjoy discounted health insurance based on your employment type and location.
- No matter your life stage or choices, we have leave options, including purchasing additional leave, enhanced parental benefits, and long-service leave.
Our story
We are proud to be Fonterra, with a business enabled by everyday people doing good things together. Being part of Fonterra means being part of a unique history, realising the potential of dairy for generations to come, and solving for a better future together. Our Co-operative spirit guides us with a common purpose: caring for all our people and the land to solve for better together. We provide excellent career development opportunities, benefits, flexibility, and balance to suit everyone's lifestyles and choices.
Fonterra is a place where everyone can be themselves, feel empowered to do their best, and are empowered to create goodness for generations.
Sound good to you? Come and join us, and let's solve for better, together. You, me, us together.
