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Remuneration & Employment Advisor (V26/10006)

Blue Mountains City Council -
Katoomba NSW

Job Details

Qualifications

Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Office
HRIS
Communication skills

Full Job Description

Position Number: P00124

Directorate: SCS

Service: People and Culture

Location: Katoomba Headquarters

Position
Classification:

Band 9

Date
Created/Updated

POSITION PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE

The Remuneration & Employment Advisor is responsible providing pro-active advice and
support through retrieval and analysis of HR data, enabling the effective delivery of both
operational and strategic employment and remuneration activities.

The position has organisational responsibility for key employment & remuneration
activities including:

Reporting and analytics on Employment & Relation issues, including advice and

business improvement.

Organisation design and establishments

Remuneration and Benefits framework including position classifications

Employment matters

Equal Employment Opportunity and Workplace Diversity

Compliance of payroll and remuneration activities

The position supports the following organisational activities:

Employee Relations

Workforce planning

Payroll management

Recruitment (attract & retain)

Performance management

RELATIONSHIPS

Reports to (Position Title): Program Leader Remuneration & Employment

Report to (Position Number): P00766

Staff Responsibility: Nil

Key Internal Relationships: People & Culture Service Senior Leadership
Team Safety Service

Strategic Resource Allocation Business &
Information Systems Council supervisors
Council employees

Key External Relationships: LG NSW
Unions
Government agencies

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Responsible for providing operational and strategic analysis and advice on

employment, remuneration, establishments and data integrity matters. This includes
reporting activities such as quarterly reporting, internal ad-hoc reporting/analysis,
supporting the Program Leader Employee Relations with relevant reporting, and
external reporting requirements.

2. Proactively provide advice, support and respond to employee and management
enquiries by solving organisational, people and change-related issues through working
with the business, and develop integrated solutions aligned to corporate requirements.

3. Responsible for ensuring HR data integrity by proactively managing HR master data
in Council’s Technology One platform (One Council) and associated systems. This
includes, but not limited to organisation structure and charts, position information,
administration and monitoring effectiveness of HRIS system.

4. Proactively review, report and make recommendations for business and process
improvement to management through:

a) Participating in policy, procedure and process improvement reviews,
making recommendations for improvement and updates;

b) Planning, implementation, monitoring and review of HR projects to ensure
successful outcomes and implementation of improvements/updates;

c) Monitoring and ensuring compliance via auditing methods of payroll and
remuneration activities, ensuring practices are legally compliant and best
practice.

5. Frontline delivery of HR strategies and actions that enhance the contribution of our
employees including but not limited to wellbeing, phase 2 of the Remuneration and
Benefits Framework rollout.

6. Act as the Subject Matter Expert for conditions of employment, reward, remuneration
and employment, job classification, evaluation and establishments. This includes
design, implementation and management of how Council manages Position
Descriptions.

7. Assist with delivery of other initiatives and projects within People and Culture team as
required.

Guiding Principles

We act as one organisation responding to the changing needs of our LGA and

community

We are strategy led, driven by our Community Strategic Plan with clear priorities and

focus

We are service focused & we continuously improve service provision and provide

excellent customer service

We collaborate and work together to achieve our outcomes

We ensure safety and well-being is at the centre of our organisation, operations and

culture

We are a financially sustainable organisation, living within our means, ensuring best

value resource allocation

These Guidelines complement the Council’s adopted Values of: Work Together; Work
Safe Home safe; Service Excellence; Value for Money; Trust and Respect; and,
Supporting Community.

Workplace Health & Safety

Ensure compliance with WHS obligations and responsibilities as outlined in Councils
policies and procedures and under the relevant WHS legislation. These include but are
not limited to: identifying potentially unsafe situations or work practices and notifying your
Supervisor or Manager (or the Health, Safety Manager/Area Safety Representative);
never performing a task that you believe is dangerous or for which you do not have the
experience, or have not received appropriate instructions and training or where the correct
equipment to carry out the task safely is not available; always work in a safe manner and
in accordance with safety instructions, where applicable; use the work equipment supplied
for the job, in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions), and any personal
protective equipment, which the Council deems necessary and has provided; be safety
aware and report any actions to your line manager which will assist the Council to meet
its legal workplace health and safety obligations.

You have the right to cease or direct cessation of unsafe work. In addition, you are required
at all times to comply with Councils Asbestos Management Plan and Policy.

Compliance & Risk

You are responsible for ensuring that you conduct your risk management responsibilities
as described in council's Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Policy and Procedure (the
ERM Framework) with the goal of ensuring that potential issues are identified and reported
in a timely manner.

COMMUNICATION

The Remuneration & Employment Advisor role requires high level communication skills.
The role covers a broad range of internal and external stakeholders and is required to
communicate with stakeholders to identify issues and provide advice and solutions. This
position is also required to communicate with higher levels of management across
Council.

JUDGEMENT & PROBLEM SOLVING

Problems are solved by obtaining, evaluating and analysing information. Judgement

is important as there is often no right or wrong solution.

Able to make decisions within the area of responsibility, with guidance and advice

available from the Program Leader Employment & Remuneration.

Will evaluate a variety of issues in more complicated situations. Considerable

investigation and adaptive thinking will be required.

Ongoing planning is required to ensure strategic outcomes, the coordination of

resources covering multiple work cycles and long-term projects.

AUTHORITY

Policy, processes and procedures are readily available, but the jobholder is required

to choose the appropriate actions within these frameworks.

Decisions affect the work and activities of others within the People & Culture service.

This position has no delegations.

SKILL, EXPERIENCE, QUALIFICATIONS & BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

1. Degree or equivalent experience in a related field (e.g. human resources)

area/employment & remuneration environment.
2. High level of skills using the Office 365 suite, with advanced skills in Microsoft Excel.
3. Demonstrated ability to retrieve and analyse data with high attention to detail.
4. Demonstrated ability to make recommendations for improvement, implement and

monitor changes across the organisation in efficient, thorough and customer focused
manner.

5. Demonstrate an understanding of employment and remuneration principles, legal
responsibilities, activities and requirements, implement these in the workplace to
deliver desired outcomes.

6. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work across all
levels of the organisation.

7. Demonstrated experience with HR information systems (preferably Technology One
or CHRIS), relevant software and systems to ensure accuracy, timeliness and high-
quality work outcomes.

8. Must be able to effectively work in a team environment to ensure that team goals are
delivered.

9. Understanding of and ability to apply WHS and EEO principles in the workplace.

DESIRABLE

1. Understand Human Resources in a local government context.
2. Have demonstrated experience with the HRP module of Technology One’s CI

Anywhere platform.

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