Payroll Specialist

Air New Zealand; Auckland; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous staff travel discounts for你,

FlexiLeave – option to purchase up to

Koru health medical cover

Learning and development opportunities

Work Perks discounts

Job summary

Air New Zealand is seeking a Payroll Specialist to ensure accurate, on-time pay for thousands of employees. You will navigate complex collective and individual agreements and coordinate data across PeopleSoft, ADP Streamline Payroll, and Workday to deliver compliant payroll services.

The role emphasizes process improvements, stakeholder engagement, and leadership of the payroll team, with benefits including staff travel discounts, FlexiLeave, and health cover.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years’ experience in Payroll or HR functions.
• Experience managing payroll across unionised environments.
• Strong data accuracy and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent stakeholder communication abilities.
• Ability to lead teams and drive process improvements.

Responsibilities

• Manage payroll finalisation and interface processes across systems.
• Interpret and apply multiple collective agreements for varied employee groups.
• Develop improvements to streamline payroll procedures.
• Provide payroll advice to managers and team members.
• Maintain payroll data accuracy and timely processing.

Skills

Payroll processing

Unionised environments

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Education

Business degree in HR/ER/IT

Tools

PeopleSoft

ADP Streamline

Workday

Job description

Kia ora!

Ensure our people are paid accurately and on time, every time — yourexpertisewill make a direct impact on Air New Zealand’s mostvaluable asset, our employees.

As a Payroll Specialist,you’llplay a pivotal role in processing payroll that supports thousands of Air New Zealanders. This isa highly complexrole, managing and interpretingnumerouscollective and individual employment agreements across a diverse workforce.You’llbe responsible forcoordinating andmaintainingpay-related data across the PeopleSoft, ADP Streamline Payroll, and Workday HR systems-ensuring all issues are resolved prior to each pay close and delivering a complete, compliant, and seamless payroll service to assigned business areas.

Howyou’llmake an impact

• Manage payroll finalisation andinterfaceprocesses, ensuringtimely,accuratepayments, swift error rectification, and effective overpayment recovery
• Interpret and apply multiple collective agreements, ensuring compliance with employment terms and conditions across varied employee groups
• Develop and implement process improvements to streamline payroll procedures, enhancing efficiency and service delivery
• Build strong relationships internally and externally, gathering feedback, ensuring regulatory compliance, and upholding our customer service standards
• Provide expert payroll advice to managers and team members, supportingaccurateinformation processing
• Maintain payroll databases, ensuring data accuracy, efficient processes, and alignment with service targets
• Lead and motivate the payroll team, fostering high performance and a collaborative culture.

Ideally, you will have

• At least 5 years’ experience in Payroll or HR functions
• A relevant business degree (HR, ER, IT) or equivalent professional experience
• Proven experience managing end-to-end payroll processes in complex, unionised environments
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Demonstrated capability in leading teams and managing performance effectively
• The ability toidentifyimprovements and proactively implement solutions.

We knowgreat talentcomes in many forms.If you bring strong experience and a fresh perspective,we’dlove to hear from you.

How we look after our whānau

We want our people to live their best lives and access great benefits that support their lives outside work:

• Generous staff travel discounts for you, your friends, and your whānau
• FlexiLeave -optiontopurchaseup to four extra weeks of leave per year
• Exclusive access toKoruhealthmedical cover and discounted Southern Cross medical insurance
• Learning and development opportunities that support your career growth
• Access to Work Perks, offering discounts across hotels, retail stores, gyms, banking, and more.

Ready for take-off?

Applications closeMonday, 17thAugust

Additional Information

At Air New Zealand, we are proudly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and believe in creating a truly inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves and thrive. Our people are our greatest asset – because while everything else we do in our operation can be replicated by our competitors, it is our people that truly set us apart. We are firm believers in celebrating the differences and diversity of thought our people bring to their roles. We encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds, including those with a disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or are neurodiverse to apply for our roles.

If you have encountered any accessibility barriers and require further information or reasonable accommodations to our recruitment process, please reach out to the recruiter listed on this job advert so they are able to support you to freely participate equitably in our recruitment and selection process.

Whāia te pae tawhiti kia tata. Ko te pae tata whakamaua, kia tina.

“Seek to bring distant horizons closer. Once near, seize them and make them your reality.”