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
Requirements
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)
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.
We will review the reports from both freelancer and employer to give the best decision. It will take 3-5 business days for reviewing after receiving two reports.
