Payroll Administrator (Fixed-Term)

About the Role

Key responsibilities include managing weekly payroll for approximately 800 employees, supporting other payroll types as needed, ensuring compliance with legislative requirements, delivering timely and accurate payroll while reducing errors and off‑cycle payments, actively resolving payroll queries, and conducting audits to improve time‑entry accuracy and overall payroll quality. • Manage weekly payroll for ~800 employees and support additional payroll types. • Process onboarding/off‑boarding, maintain master employee data, and handle pay‑related queries. • Ensure payroll compliance with legislative requirements and collective agreements. • Deliver accurate, timely payroll while minimizing errors, over‑payments, and off‑cycle runs. • Resolve payroll tickets and conduct audits to improve time‑entry accuracy.

Key Responsibilities

• ▸payroll management
• ▸employee data
• ▸compliance
• ▸error reduction
• ▸ticket resolution
• ▸audit reviews

What You Bring

This full‑spectrum payroll position goes beyond timesheet processing and includes onboarding and off‑boarding employees, maintaining accurate master data, handling pay‑related queries, and understanding collective agreements relevant to the payroll areas. Prior payroll experience in a high‑volume environment is essential. The successful candidate will have hands‑on end‑to‑end payroll experience in a medium‑to‑large organisation, be detail‑driven, adaptable, and understand the importance of confidentiality. Required skills include strong proficiency in Excel and other MS Office programs, experience with SAP or a similar payroll system, high attention to detail, excellent data‑entry abilities, and strong communication and customer‑service skills. A proactive, team‑oriented attitude is also essential. • Required: end‑to‑end payroll experience in a high‑volume, medium‑to‑large organisation. • Required: strong Excel and MS Office skills; SAP or similar payroll system experience. • Required: high attention to detail, excellent data entry, communication, and customer service abilities.

Requirements

• ▸end‑to‑end payroll
• ▸high‑volume
• ▸excel
• ▸sap
• ▸data entry
• ▸customer service

Benefits

Ventia is seeking a Payroll Administrator on a fixed‑term contract until 31 August 2026. The role offers a hybrid working model and the chance to gain experience within a well‑regarded, diverse, and inclusive organisation. • Fixed‑term contract through August 2026 with hybrid working flexibility. • Gain experience in a diverse, inclusive organisation.

Work Environment

Hybrid