About the Opportunity:

This is a great opportunity for a motivated payroll professional to lead and supervise the payroll services team at City of Darwin. The position reports to the Manager HR Services and is responsible for ensuring high quality, accurate, compliant, customer focused, and best practices payroll services and associated reporting are delivered to City of Darwin internal stakeholders. This position is expected to effectively lead and supervise the payroll team and associated functions. Additionally, the position will contribute to ongoing innovative and effective quality improvements that support positive customer relations and streamline our processes.

About you:

As the Payroll Services Supervisor, you will have a keen eye for detail and a strong understanding of relevant legislative compliance requirements. You will have a high level of ICT literacy and competence with human resources and payroll systems.

You will have a:

• Diploma of Payroll Services or equivalent qualification/experience; and
• Minimum three (3) years' experience in payroll/relevant discipline;
• Minimum two (2) years' experience in a supervisory role;
• Sound knowledge of how to interpret relevant industrial instruments and associated legislation such as Superannuation, Taxation and Workers Compensation.

Why join us?

At City of Darwin, we're passionate about building and sustaining a high-performance culture that motivates our people to deliver exceptional results. You will align with and flourish in a fast-paced environment that focuses on strategic outcomes and embraces collaboration and innovation.

Your hard work will be rewarded with a competitive remuneration package and generous leave entitlements. This position has a commencing base salary of $95,527.33 per annum plus 12% superannuation. As a permanent employee you also get access to our wellbeing program, employee assistance counselling program and receive 17.5% leave loading.

This vacancy will remain open until filled.

We are looking forward to receiving your application if you are a direct applicant. Please note that we are not working with recruitment agencies for this position.

The City of Darwin is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background to apply.

As part of Council's recruitment process, applicants may be required to undergo pre-employment assessments, such as a Medical Assessment, National Police Check and Psychometric Assessment.