Senior Payroll Analyst

Gate Gourmet; Sydney; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Gate Gourmet, a Gate Group company, seeks a Senior Payroll Analyst for a 9-month fixed term contract with potential to go permanent. You will support payroll through analysis, reporting, compliance monitoring and system administration, partnering with Payroll, HR and Finance to ensure accurate payroll operations.

This role involves handling multiple awards and pay cycles, driving improvements, and ensuring data integrity across payroll processes.

Qualifications

• Experience with end-to-end payroll processing and reconciliations.
• Ability to work across multiple awards and pay cycles.
• Proven analytical and reporting capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, process and check weekly and monthly payroll.
• Support end-to-end payroll processing across all payrolls.
• Analyze payroll data to identify discrepancies and trends.
• Reconcile payroll reports, superannuation and leave balances.
• Investigate payroll queries and complex issues.
• Collaborate with HR and Finance to ensure data integrity.

Skills

Payroll analysis

Data reconciliation

Compliance monitoring

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting/finance

Tools

Payroll software

Job description

Gate Gourmet, a Gate Group company, is the world's largest independent provider of catering and provisioning services to the airline industry. With a proud 95-year history, we support more than 300+ Aviation carriers across over 68 countries serving over 700 million passengers in the sky annually. Our operations combine culinary excellence with stringent food safety and production standards, enabling us to deliver high-quality, reliable catering solutions to over 680 million travellers annually.

Your new role

We are seeking a Senior Payroll Analyst on a 9-month fixed term contract, with the potential to transition to a permanent role in the future.

You will support the payroll function through detailed analysis, reporting, compliance monitoring and payroll system administration. You will work closely with Payroll, HR, Finance and external providers to ensure payroll operations run efficiently and accurately.

This role suits someone who enjoys getting into the detail reconciling, investigating, improving and who is comfortable operating in an environment with multiple awards, agreements and pay cycles.

Your key focus areas

• Preparation, processing and checking of all aspects of weekly and monthly payroll
• Supporting the team with end-to-end payroll processing across all payrolls
• Analysing payroll data to identify discrepancies, trends and improvement opportunities
• Reconciling payroll reports, superannuation and leave balances
• Processing award-based superannuation and liaising with fund administrators
• Investigating and resolving payroll queries and complex payroll issues
• Partnering with HR and Finance to ensure accurate employee and payroll data integrity
• Driving process improvements across payroll procedures
• Liaising with the Injury & Wellbeing Manager on the status of all claims
• Contributing to payroll system implementations, testing and parallel runs
• End of financial year processing
• Maintaining the confidentiality and accuracy of sensitive payroll information

About the opportunity

Gate Gourmet, a Gate Group company, is the world's largest independent provider of catering and provisioning services to the airline industry. With a proud 95-year history, we support more than 300+ Aviation carriers across over 68 countries serving over 700 million passengers in the sky annually. Our operations combine culinary excellence with stringent food safety and production standards, enabling us to deliver high-quality, reliable catering solutions to over 680 million travellers annually.

Your new role

We are seeking a Senior Payroll Analyst on a 9-month fixed term contract, with the potential to transition to a permanent role in the future.

You will support the payroll function through detailed analysis, reporting, compliance monitoring and payroll system administration. You will work closely with Payroll, HR, Finance and external providers to ensure payroll operations run efficiently and accurately.

This role suits someone who enjoys getting into the detail reconciling, investigating, improving and who is comfortable operating in an environment with multiple awards, agreements and pay cycles.

Your key focus areas

• Preparation, processing and checking of all aspects of weekly and monthly payroll
• Supporting the team with end-to-end payroll processing across all payrolls
• Analysing payroll data to identify discrepancies, trends and improvement opportunities
• Reconciling payroll reports, superannuation and leave balancesAttention}