Payroll Specialist

Crown Perth; Western Australia; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Crown Resorts is seeking a Payroll Specialist on a 12-month fixed term contract to deliver accurate, compliant payroll outcomes across Crown’s project activities. This senior role provides expertise in pay processing, awards interpretation, and payroll controls.

You will work with HRIS and payroll systems (SAP), resolve complex exceptions, support audits, and contribute to payroll transformation initiatives across multi-site operations in Western Australia.

Qualifications

• Senior payroll knowledge across processing, leave, deductions, superannuation, tax and terminations.
• Experience interpreting awards, Enterprise Agreements and payroll policy requirements.
• Experience resolving complex payroll exceptions, discrepancies and employee pay queries.
• Significant payroll operations experience in a complex, multi-site or high-volume payroll environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior payroll knowledge across payroll processing, pay components, leave, deductions, superannuation, tax, terminations, back pay, off-cycle payments and payroll calendar / cut-off requirements.
• Investigate complex payroll exceptions, variances and employee pay queries.
• Support pay run validation, reconciliations, audit evidence, compliance checks and control activities.
• Contribute SME input to payroll transformation, blueprint workshops, UAT, parallel runs, defect assessment, cutover readiness and hypercare.

Skills

Senior payroll knowledge across pay

System testing experience

SAP experience

Tools

SAP

Job description

Better begins here Crown Resorts is a great place to visit and it’s an even better place to work, a place where you can play your part in creating fun, memorable, world-class experiences for our guests and our people. We value passion, optimism, and an appetite for change - for the better. Here, you’ll be part of the team, empowered to explore more, experience more and supported by your leader to grow and develop.

The Payroll Specialist is a senior individual contributor responsible for supporting accurate, compliant and timely payroll outcomes across Crown on project activities. The role provides practical payroll expertise across pay processing, award and Enterprise Agreement interpretation, exception resolution, reconciliations, payroll controls and operational readiness activities. You will act as a trusted escalation point for complex payroll matters and helps ensure payroll knowledge is captured, validated and embedded into repeatable ways of working. Please note this is a 12 month fixed term contract.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide senior payroll knowledge across payroll processing, pay components, leave, deductions, superannuation, tax, terminations, back pay, off-cycle payments and payroll calendar / cut-off requirements.
• Investigate complex payroll exceptions, variances and employee pay queries.
• Support pay run validation, reconciliations, audit evidence, compliance checks and control activities.
• Contribute SME input to payroll transformation, blueprint workshops, UAT, parallel runs, defect assessment, cutover readiness and hypercare.

About you

• Previous Payroll Project and systems testing experience
• Experience working with HRIS, workforce management and payroll systems: SAP
• Demonstrated experience interpreting awards, Enterprise Agreements, employment contracts and payroll policy requirements.
• Practical experience resolving complex payroll exceptions, discrepancies, variances and employee pay queries.
• Significant experience in payroll operations within a complex, multi-site or high-volume payroll environment.

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