Payroll officer (canberra)

12 month fixed term position, Canberra based

Enjoy true flexibility with 2 WFH days in our hybrid work model

Fitness Passport, health cover discounts & employee benefit perks

Airservices Australia is a government-owned organisation responsible for the safe and efficient management of 11% of the world's airspace and provision of aviation rescue firefighting services at Australia's busiest airports. Our dynamic and diverse teams operate from locations across the country from bustling cities to regional and remote locations, including an island. We keep Australia's aviation industry safe every day of the year, both in the air and on the ground.

We're shaping a once-in-a-century step-change. Given the emergence of new airspace users, new aerodromes, and a range of new crewed and uncrewed aircraft, we are working closely with our customers and the community, as we adapt our service offerings to cater to these new and diverse aviation participants, ensuring we continue to keep our skies protected while balancing our environmental and social responsibilities.

We encourage motivated individuals who love what they do, value a service-first mindset and embrace a challenge or two to explore a career with Airservices.

The Payroll Services team delivers end-to-end payroll processing, reporting, compliance, and system support across Airservices Australia.

As a Payroll Officer within the Payroll Operations team, you'll support both Tier 1 and Tier 2 tasks as outlined in the Payroll Service Catalogue. Reporting to the Payroll Services Lead and working within a collaborative team environment, you'll be responsible for a mix of routine transactional work and moderately complex payroll activities, all contributing to the accurate and timely delivery of payroll services.

• Process Tier 1, Tier 2 payroll transactions, provide advice, and resolve related queries, while building knowledge of Tier 3 activities.
• Execute payroll tasks efficiently, ensuring full compliance with legislation, policies, and procedures.
• Prioritise and manage workloads to meet deadlines while actively contributing to continuous improvement initiatives across Payroll, Corporate, and Shared Services.
• Provide mentoring and support to the Transaction Payroll Officer.

• Ability to work effectively both as a collaborative team member and independently with minimal supervision.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to meet deadlines accurately and with great attention to detail.
• Ability in managing competing priorities while maintaining a strong customer service focus and building effective working relationships.
• Demonstrated ability to acquire an understanding of, and the capacity to use HRIS systems.

Airservices recognises prior service and/or continuity of service for Long Service Leave purposes in accordance with the Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees).

At Airservices Australia, we embrace and thrive on diversity of thought, perspectives, and capabilities because we know the benefits of having a workforce that is representative of the community that we serve. We appreciate everyone is unique, and acknowledge diversity in thought leads to greater transparency and improved consideration in our decision making.

To be eligible to apply, you must be an Australian Citizen or a Permanent resident as an Airservices Background check is required for this role. Successful applicants will be required to undertake a background check as part of the recruitment process.