Apply: Payroll Accountant (Compliance)

Reference: BH-183835
Title: Payroll Accountant (Compliance)
Rate: $62.40 + super per hour
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 7 Months
WFH: Yes - 3 days in office per fortnight - Payrun week - Mon, Tues & Wed 
Location: Sydney

One of Sydney's top 5 Universities are looking for an Compliance Payroll Accountant to join their team on a 7 Month contract.

The Senior Compliance Officer / Payroll Accountant offers guidance on designated compliance areas, interpreting and communicating university policies coherently. They coordinate compliance assessments, ensuring a holistic approach, and actively promote adherence to university standards.

Key accountabilities

  • Provide guidance on designated compliance matters to ensure stakeholders, have clarity on policies and regulations.
  • Interpret and communicate university policies coherently, ensuring operations align with both internal guidelines and applicable regulatory mandates.
  • Coordinate and conduct investigations or assessments on compliance-related matters, generating thorough reports and collaborating with relevant stakeholders based on the outcomes.
  • Monitor and promote adherence to the university standards and procedures, ensuring a proactive approach to compliance and the introduction of tools to maintain consistency.
  • Lead the development and distribution of educational materials, ensuring internal stakeholders remain current and prepared to align with compliance standards and evolving sector trends.
  • Foster open communication and collaboration within the team, addressing stakeholder queries and concerns in a timely manner, while building trust within immediate work networks.
  • Oversee report compilation to meet established standards, proactively identify compliance improvements, and collaborate with the team to rectify discrepancies.
  • Coordinate purchasing processes and resolve any discrepancies in payment schedules.
  • Monitor risk within the team, promote workplace health and safety, ensure alignment with university policies, and proactively address potential challenges.
Essential Requirements

  • A degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or Commerce, or an equivalent combination of relevant training and experience in using financial systems for processing financial transactions and reporting in a large-scale organisation
  • Conducting investigations and/or assessments on compliance matters.
  • Experience in the higher education sector.
  • In the relevant area of compliance within a similar, complex organisation.
  • Interpreting and applying policies and relevant legislation.
  • Monitoring and managing compliance.
  • Understanding of compliance, risk management and audit techniques.
  • Working with legal, compliance and/or governance professionals.
 
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Company Background:

Ethos BeathChapman (EBC) is a global group of executive recruitment experts in Australia, Asia and EMEA, with a broader network beyond. We connect exceptional people to exceptional companies.

EBC’s mid-sized agility and solutions-focused approach enables us to flex where traditional recruitment agencies have failed, and scale beyond the reach of boutiques. Our multidisciplinary expertise covers corporate and specialised functions across Finance, Technology, Commerce and Government recruitment markets, among others.

Established 2005 in Sydney, EBC today has six offices worldwide in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Netherlands and the UK. Part of the Nikkei-listed Will Group, Inc, we own Quay Appointments and our staffing and managed solutions specialists, CONNECT.

Let’s connect, and make exceptional happen, together: www.ethosbc.com

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