Team Leader Payroll and People Connect

Are you a people leader with experience in payroll, Award interpretation with a passion for leveraging technology to optimise functional operations? Do you love to identify unique solutions to problems? We are currently seeking a Team Leader Payroll and People Connect to join our team and if you have these skills this might be your chance to rewrite the future with us.

• Lead a team of payroll and people services professionals.
• Deliver payroll services to a large organisation.
• Work in a dynamic and customer focused team.

About the role

This unique position will lead our payroll and people services team and provide payroll and first level human resource advice to the organisation. You will be responsible for providing regular and routine reporting and be able to provide expert support to ensure payroll systems and processes meet audit requirements. You will have experience in coaching, mentoring and leading professionals and be able to communicate feedback that fosters a culture of continual improvement and growth. 

This position is required to provide quality customer service and create value for the community.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• tertiary qualifications in a related field (accounting, business management) or demonstrated significant experience in a similar role
• significant experience and expertise with HRIS and payroll systems
• demonstrated leadership behaviours, including active communication with a team in providing feedback on performance, business strategy, diversity, coaching and mentoring and change management
• significant experience in leveraging technology and best practices to optimise functional operations in a similar role within a large organisation
• demonstrated experience in leading initiatives to evaluate and refine payroll processes and areas of improvement to create efficiencies including managing projects and system upgrades
• demonstrated experience in developing policy and procedures
• demonstrated experience in interpreting, advising and applying employment, payroll and taxation legislation and industrial instruments
• well-developed performance improvement and consultation skills
• demonstrated experience in building strong, credible relationships and influence, persuade or negotiate outcomes that are of benefit or add value to all or part of the organisation
• proven ability to assess, interpret and judge information of situations and formulate recommendations, provide specialist advice or deliver a service, based on findings.

Our position description provides more information for you to learn more about this role.

Other important information

• The salary range for this position ranges between $99.7k - $119.6k plus 11.5% superannuation.
• This is a Permanent full-time role.
• This role will be able to access a 9 day fortnight.
• We are able to offer hybrid and flexible working conditions for this role.
• This role is located at the Wyong Administration Building.

Council may create an eligibility list from this recruitment process and may utilise this eligibility list to fill other permanent or temporary vacancies.

Extra benefits

At Central Coast Council we provide team members with a range of extras that help them balance their life when they need it. Fitness Passports give access to a range of gyms. Wellbeing leave can be accessed twice a year to tick off something that means something to you - volunteering, health check-ups. And an Employee Assistance Program that offers a range of wellbeing initiatives to help you and your immediate family.

Other extras include:

• Long service leave after 5 years of continuous service
• Free flu vaccination program
• Time provided for you to do annual skin cancer screening, Breast screen and blood donations
• Access to professional development with career development and learning programs through various platforms
• We reward and recognise our staff with our Cheers program
• Novated leasing partnerships. 

Central Coast Council is committed to the goals of equal opportunity employment. We aim to provide a work environment for our employees that fosters equity, diversity and respect.

Council is committed to providing safe environments that protect the physical, emotional, cultural and social wellbeing of children on the Central Coast.

Central Coast Council is ideally located on the northern fringe of Sydney and just an hour's drive from Newcastle, the Central Coast offers one of the best places in Australia to live and work. The Central Coast is one of the fastest growing regions in NSW, the third largest Local Government Area (LGA) in NSW and the 6th Largest LGA in Australia. 

How to apply

To lodge your application, please follow these steps:

1. Answer the on-line questions shown below.
2. Attach your resume 
3. Attach your qualifications and licences.

Once your application is successfully lodged you will receive an automated response sent to your e-mail address. If a response is not received this means that your application has not been successfully submitted and you will need to lodge another application.

If you require assistance to lodge your application please contact our Talent Acquisition team by emailing recruit@centralcoast.nsw.gov.au to discuss what reasonable adjustments you may need. If you are deaf, hearing or speech impaired, you can contact us through the National Relay Service TTY call 133 677 or Speak & Listen 1300 555 727.

Applicants who are selected for interview will be contacted by phone or e-mail. For further instructions please click here. 

You will have the ability to save your application as you go using the 'Save Application' button. You can start an application and return to it later via the automatic follow-up email once you have the time and required information at hand to finalise your application.  

If you don't have access to a computer or electronic device, you can lodge your application at any of Council's Library locations. Pre-book a free 1-hour computer timeslot by contacting your nearest library https://www.centralcoast.nsw.gov.au/libraries/our-branches or ask at the enquiry counter.

We will not accept unsolicited resumes or applications being presented by recruitment agencies.