Experience

Whiddon

• Australia
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Payroll Manager

  • Oct 2020 - Present

  Responsible for overseeing the Payroll team to provide effective, accurate, and efficient services. This includes the development and maintenance of leading practice payroll and reporting processes and procedures with a focus on upholding industrial and legislative compliance and requirements. Support budget processes related to employee related expenses. Manage Payroll expenses in line with budget parameters. Perform end of month and end of year finance reconciliation processes Compile statistics for analysis and reporting purposes. Perform quality control audits to ensure accuracy of award interpretation, system calculation, etc. Set and monitor performance and development objectives for staff through annual performance and development plans. Continually reflect on, and review current processes and procedures to maintain and develop new standards and processes in line with strategic plans of the business unit and across Whiddon Provide coaching and mentoring to develop staff, ensuring staff are appropriately trained and committed to a culture of continuous improvement as well as providing and excellent level of customer service to all staff and stakeholders Manage the delivery of effective and efficient payroll operations ensuring the appropriate payment, disbursement, checking and reconciliation procedures are in place and undertaken in a timely manner for payroll and associated processing in line industrial and legislative requirements Interpret Industrial Agreements such as awards, certified agreements, contracts of employment etc Prepare, balance and reconcile PAYE tax and assist the finance team to reconcile FBT, superannuation, and payment summaries, STP, etc. Lead any payroll projects this includes time and attendance system.



The NRMA

• Australia
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Payroll Project Manager

  • Aug 2018 - Oct 2020

  Project implementation lead responsible for the payroll work stream (from development through implementation).Implement the payroll centralisation strategy for the Group ( Australia and New Zealand)Working knowledge in payroll service delivery catalogue and controls as well as downstream dependencies ( Finance and Technology).Design the project plan to de-risk change impact centralising payroll to payroll system.Effectively deliver the project activities to timeline and proactively identify when issues arise for immediate resolution and stakeholder management.Manage vendor service delivery to statements of work and provide feedback when underperforming.Decide on the resourcing plan and manage the team to effectively deliver the plan activities.To deliver effective and efficient payroll solutions that benefit the business and are aligned to the group payroll strategy and success measures.Update Senior Leadership on regular project status reporting to SteerCo and other Project Committees.Identification of compliance issues, risks, change impacts and dependencies and collaborates with SME’s to plan for issues and opportunities for resolution.Manage progress to project strategy and KPI’s and deals with performance issues timely.Responsible for all payroll related data mapping, validation, configuration, functional design, and system testing. Interpret and administer Enterprise Agreement/ AwardsTransfer of knowledge, train, coach, mentor to BAU payroll team.

• Payroll Manager Shared Services

  • Aug 2015 - Aug 2018

  Manage the end to end payroll operation to ensure adherence to regulatory and legislative requirements. Management of the day to day responsibilities of ensuring the correctness, timeliness of payments in relation to industrial instruments, employment contracts, company policies and other relevant legislation. First point of contact for auditors and coordination of inputs/interviews that are aligned to internal and external requirements. Development of policies, business rules and procedures and recommendation of continuous improvement and ensuring comply with the legislation.Undertake EOFY activities (including Group Tax), superannuation, workers compensation, end of month, EFT and reconciliations, FBT, novated lease, General Ledger, Financial reporting, redundancy calculations etc. Responsible for validating of annual salary review and bonus payments Liaise with Finance for the FTE budgeting and for all provisionsLiaise with Business Partners Managers for employee changes and movementsInterpret and administer Awards and Enterprise AgreementReview and approve all payroll payments HR delegate and point of escalation for any complex operational issues. Management of regular HR and Finance reporting production including ad-hoc requests.Manage the payroll provider and collaborate on opportunities related to new system releases as well as the scoping requirements associated with system reconfigurations that are aligned to our employment lifecycle workflows and transactions for continuous improvement purposes, including addressing audit items.Provide recommendations on system updates aligned to strategy.Effectively train, coach and mentor direct reports.Ensure the team has annual goals and development plans in place and support them with achieving and performance managing.

• Payroll Team Leader

  • Nov 2009 - Aug 2015

  Managing a team performing end to end payroll processingManaging all corporate, executives and director paymentsPerform quality control audits to ensure accuracyOverseeing changes to employee contracts and new employee’s contracts and terminationsReview and approve all payroll paymentsUndertake EOFY activities (including Group Tax), superannuation, workers compensation, end of month, EFT and reconciliations, FBT, novated lease, General Ledger, Financial reporting, redundancy calculations etc. Validate Performance bonus calculation and Remuneration IncreaseLiaise with Business Partners Managers for employee changes and movementsInterpret and administer Awards and Enterprise AgreementReview and validate PIP Bonus and employees annual salary review Advise team members of updates to awards and policiesHR Delegate to review and approve for payroll payments



Photo Corp Trading as Pixi Photo

• Payroll Manager

  • Nov 2008 - Nov 2009

  Supervise and coordinate activities of payroll staff and manage payroll workload to meet operational requirements Undertake monthly and EOY payroll activities, payroll reconciliation, consolidation multiple entities for payroll tax, FBT, novated lease, general ledger, financial reporting etc and Prepare Estimated and Actual Wages Declaration ( Workers Compensation) Interpret and administer Awards , Liaise with Human Resources Manager for employee changes and movements Develop and update payroll process and procedures. Lead payroll audit activities Liaise with Human Resources Manager for all employee movements



Sleep City

• United States
• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Payroll Manager

  • Oct 2000 - Oct 2008

  Coordination and management of entire payroll function Checking and auditing all payrolls, ensuring legislative and award compliance. Undertake monthly and EOY payroll activities, payroll reconciliation, consolidation multiple entities for payroll tax, FBT, novated lease, general ledger, financial reporting etc Redundancy Calculations Interpret and administer EBA award interpretation Liaise with Human Resources Manager for employee changes and movement Prepare Estimated and Actual Wages Declaration ( Workers Compensation) Lead payroll audit activities Develop and update payroll process and procedures. HR Delegate to review and approve for payroll payments



Sleep City

• United States
• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Accountant to CFO

  • Feb 1998 - Apr 2000

  Maintain Financial records Prepare financial statements, including profit and loss accounts, store budgets, cashflows and variance analysis Payroll and workers comp month end reconciliation Prepare and calculate monthly sales employee bonus Provide support service by working with all departments and the management team to help make financial decisions Maintain Financial records Prepare financial statements, including profit and loss accounts, store budgets, cashflows and variance analysis Payroll and workers comp month end reconciliation Prepare and calculate monthly sales employee bonus Provide support service by working with all departments and the management team to help make financial decisions