Payroll Specialist - ANZ

As a Payroll Specialist, you will be responsible for managing payroll processes for clients' employees, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely distribution of salaries. Your role includes master data maintenance, monthly processing, payslip generation, and addressing employee queries. Depending on focus, additional responsibilities may involve supervising teams, managing tax obligations, or contributing to in-house payroll initiatives. Your expertise in payroll regulations, system proficiency, organizational skills, and effective communication are keys to success in this dynamic position, making your contributions vital to the efficiency and compliance of our payroll processes.  

Role & Responsibilities

Payroll 

• Processes payroll for clients' workers (“workers”) every pay period. 

• Performs the distribution of salary through direct transfers to workers’ bank accounts or issuance of paper checks for certain countries. 

• Updates and maintains client’s workers data in the database. 

• Ensure payslip is generated accurately, distributed timely and compliantly to workers. 

• Computes workers’ net pay based on time records, benefits, taxes and other relevant item. 

• Responds to inquiries on salaries, deductions, attendance, time records and other payroll-related matters. 

• Process any changes in exemptions and job status. 

• Completes payroll reports for record-keeping purposes or managerial review. 

• Submit payments on a timely manner to vendor for relevant authorities per statutory stipulated schedule, i.e. monthly tax payment to tax authority, etc. 

• Adheres to payroll policies and procedures and complies with relevant law. 

• Identifies, investigates and resolves discrepancies in timesheet and all payroll related tasks. 

• Ad hoc tasks as and when requested by the Company 

• Determines organization's tax obligations by calculating national and council taxes as well as National Insurance contributions 

• Submit the registration/deregistration of employees’ statutory social benefits to the vendor 

• Responsible for quarterly / semi-annual / annual statutory processing to ensure compliance per statutory requirement, such as annual year-end tax filing (request relevant documentation from staff, compute relevant tax processing, produce required report/form for filing to tax authority and staff) 

• Acts as the country expert in payroll-related matters 

Assisting and Support in HR Local Representative Responsibilities 

• Address employee and client HR-related issues, escalating and resolving as needed  

• Support employee termination / separation process under the direction of the Reporting Manager  

• Stay updated on Australia and New Zealand employment laws and HR trends; communicate relevant updates internally  

• At least 2-3 years’ work experience as a Payroll Specialist or a similar role. 

• Strong knowledge of payroll regulations in Australia and New Zealand 

• Has working experience with payroll related systems and software (Understand Xero payroll system is a plus) 

• Deep understanding of the leave system in Australia 

• Good knowledge of labor legislation 

• Strong organizational skills and able to work under strict deadlines 

• Good verbal and written communication skills in English and language of countries of coverage 

• Meticulous and has strong numerical skills (good with numbers) 

• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office 

• Minimum tertiary education (post-secondary) 

ABOUT US

GoGlobal is the leading professional services company to guide, establish and manage global operations with compliance and confidence. We bring the human touch to entering new markets and consolidating vendors through a single point of management. With a presence in over 140 countries on six continents and growing, we make running a global business easy.

Business & Corporate Services provided:

• Entity Solutions: Entity establishment, Corporate secretarial & directorship services, Domicile services, Dormancy/Liquidation
• HR Solutions: Global recruitment, Employer of Record (EOR), Agent of Record (AOR), Global benefits, Global payroll, International HR Consulting
• Finance Solutions: Accounting & Tax

For more information, please visit GoGlobal.com

OVERVIEW

We Measure Success by Results, Not Hours Worked

No timesheets.

At GoGlobal, we give you the autonomy to make decisions that create real impact. We prioritize results over hours worked, focusing on quality of outcomes rather than tracking time.

As a privately owned company, we are free from the pressures of venture capital or private equity investors demanding exponential growth in unreasonable time frames.

Sometimes, things just take time to do well. In our business, delivering great results is a process - and we're committed to doing it right.

We are not for sale. We believe that financial success is a natural outcome of our work, not the primary goal. Unlike many investors who view money as a goal, our focus is on long-term growth and sustainable success.

We are a global team, built for those who want to go further. Here's what your career at GoGlobal looks like:

• A company small enough for your voice to be heard meaningfully, yet large enough to make a global impact
• Collaborating with a diverse, global and supportive team
• Built for the long-haul - no VC or PE pressure, just a focus on sustainable growth

WHY WE ARE DIFFERENT

We Make Growing Your Career Possible

• We operate with the benefits of a partnership without the complexities of a partnership. Our hybrid partnership-corporate model offers all employees the opportunity to become a partner, while maintaining a streamlined corporate structure so that decisions are made quickly

• We do not offer equity plans. As we are not for sale and are not chasing an exit, "stock options" hold little value in our business model. Instead, we provide opportunities for outstanding employees to make partner and share in the profits. We believe it's better to build lasting value than to chase a one-time payout

• We prioritize organic and sustainable growth. Expanding operations quickly by way of mergers and acquisitions might seem appealing, but the reality is integrating diverse cultures can be challenging. We're proud of our own culture and prefer to grow it our way

• We're global. We offer career opportunities across the world-whether it's new job roles or international locations

• English is our official language, but for many, it's our second language. We embrace this and find it rewarding communicating with colleagues from all over the world

• We are not a family. We operate more like a high-performing sports team where each individual's contribution is crucial to our collective success

• We keep things simple and collaborative. Our structure makes it easy for teams to work together across borders so we can serve our clients with global needs more effectively. Unlike big, siloed companies, we work seamlessly to handle international deals without the headaches of territorial ownership

• We believe in transparency and trust. Every month, we share our financials with the team so everyone knows where we stand and what's coming next. It's all about open communication, building trust and empowering every individual to be part of our journey. We don't tell you what to think - we provide the information you need to make your own informed decisions

• We believe flexibility drives success. Our company is built on trust, and that's why we embrace fully remote work, and hybrid options in some countries. Forget rigid office routines - it's old school! This flexibility fuels productivity, strengthens our workforce, and ensures we remain agile in a fast-changing world.

Ready to take the next step in your career with us? Apply now!

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