About us.
Urbis is more than just a consultancy. We are a multidisciplinary urban consultancy, inspiring and creating solutions for our ever-changing world. We empower our brightest minds with opportunities to push boundaries, collaborate and deliver exceptional, creative solutions for our clients and each other.
If you're looking to make transformational impact in our cities and communities, we're keen to meet you.
We pride ourselves on empowering our employees and supporting them to be the best they can be. Here you will make a tangible difference and create positive impact, while gaining enviable industry experience and broad exposure to the most exciting work.
The Opportunity & How You Will Make an Impact
We're looking for a detail-oriented Payroll Coordinator to join our Finance team in a part-time capacity (22.5 hours per week). In this role, you'll be the key liaison between Urbis, our outsourced payroll providers (The Access Group and Vistra), ensuring payroll processes run accurately, efficiently and on time.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who enjoys working with numbers, thrives on accuracy, and takes pride in delivering excellent service. You'll play an important role in supporting our employees by ensuring payroll and related processes are managed seamlessly while contributing to continuous process improvements.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinating the end-to-end payroll process for fortnightly casual payroll by preparing, reviewing and submitting payroll instructions to our outsourced payroll providers.
- Acting as the primary liaison between employees, Finance, People & Culture, and our external payroll providers to resolve payroll enquiries in a timely and professional manner.
- Reviewing payroll data to ensure accuracy, integrity and compliance with relevant Awards, legislation and Urbis policies.
- Assisting with payroll-related activities including superannuation, payroll tax, salary packaging, leave management and Employee Self Service (ESS).
- Running payroll reconciliations between payroll and practice management systems to ensure employee leave balances are accurately maintained.
- Preparing employee reports and supporting Finance and People &Culture with payroll-related reporting and analysis.
- Maintaining accurate payroll records and supporting compliance with taxation, superannuation and legislative requirements.
- Identifying opportunities to improve payroll processes and contributing to ongoing system and process enhancements.
About You
- 1-2 years' experience in a payroll or payroll administration role, ideally within a small or medium-sized organisation.
- Experience working with Micropay or a similar payroll system.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly advanced proficiency in Excel.
- Excellent numeracy skills and exceptional attention to detail.
- A strong understanding of payroll processes and the importance of confidentiality and compliance.
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities and meet strict deadlines.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the confidence to liaise effectively with employees and stakeholders at all levels.
- Experience within a professional services environment will be highly regarded.
Why Urbis?
We are passionate about purpose with impact. You'll join an organisation united by a shared goal: shaping cities and communities for a better future. Your work will help create a positive legacy through innovative and meaningful contributions. You're encouraged to bring your ideas, be bold and contribute to an environment built on connection, flexibility and authenticity.
We invest in your growth, with inspirational leadership experiences, structured development pathways and the freedom to lead your own way. We empower you to shape your career and your impact.
We believe in flexible benefits, performance-driven rewards and experiences that support you both professionally and personally-because what matters to you, matters to us.
Sound interesting?
If we sound like a great fit for you, and you are ready to make an impact, we'd love to hear from you.
Click on `Apply' for this job.' You can also confidentially connect with us via [email protected]
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Recruitment Agencies - thank you for thinking of us. We have a preferred supplier agreements in place. We don't accept resumes outside of these arrangements. Should we receive a resume from you related to this role, an introduction fee will not apply.
