Payroll Officer

Description:

Pacific Energy is an Australian market leader in the provision of sustainable distributed energy. Our purpose is to transition the world to a clean energy future.

As Australia’s only end-to-end provider of all renewable energy technologies, with proven experience integrating solar, wind, battery energy storage and green hydrogen into new and existing systems, we deliver industry firsts that are leading the clean energy transition.

The Role

We’re looking for a detail-oriented professional with a proactive mindset—someone who thrives on challenging the status quo, sharing knowledge, and continuously seeking improvements.

Your expertise in payroll processing, compliance, and communication will help ensure our employees are paid accurately and on time while contributing to a culture of excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

• End-to-end Payroll processing.
• Ensure pay runs are calculated in accordance with relevant legislation, Awards, Enterprise Agreement rates, allowances and higher duties changes and other relevant information.
• Investigate complex pay anomalies, undertake calculations for special work arrangements and business requirements, ensuring appropriate tax treatment is applied, and develop solutions to meet business needs.
• Assist workers with payroll related queries.
• Champion and actively contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

About You:

• Payroll processing experience within a medium/large organisation.
• Strong communicator who can positively interact with a wide variety of stakeholders with the confidentiality, and professionalism.
• GreenTree system experience highly desirable.
• Understanding of tax and employment laws.
• Practice the ability to understand and apply legislation, policies, standards, regulations and procedures relevant to Payroll.
• Customer focus, ability to resolve issues and foster collaboration and cooperation.

Additional benefits include:

• Flexible work arrangements and an option to opt into a 9-day fortnight
• Employee Retention Bonus Program
• 17 weeks paid Parental Leave
• Additional four days per annum of Personal Business Leave
• Opportunity to apply for additional leave (Purchase Leave)
• Rewards Gateway for our employees
• Employee Referral Reward

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer
At Pacific Energy, we celebrate the richness and depth that diversity brings. We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds, ages, cultures, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities to apply.
For more visit www.pacificenergy.com.au/careers.

To be eligible for this role, you must have full working rights in Australia.