Payroll Systems and HR Analyst

Taituarā; Canterbury; Hybrid; NZD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Great learning & development

Meaningful work supporting Canterbury

Job summary

Environment Canterbury is seeking a payroll analytics professional to turn complex payroll data into clear insights that shape workforce planning. The role partners with the Manager People Technology, Insights & Payroll, and collaborates across People, Finance and Digital Solutions while working flexibly in a modern environment.

With seven years of payroll data experience and a strong grasp of NZ payroll rules, you will translate legislation into practical data outcomes, explain impacts clearly,

Qualifications

• Minimum seven years' experience working with payroll and workforce data in a medium to large organisation.
• Strong knowledge of the Holidays Act and New Zealand payroll legislation.
• Ability to explain complex data and legislative impacts to non-specialists.
• Proficiency in extracting and analysing data using Excel and SQL.

Responsibilities

• Turn payroll data into insights that inform workforce planning and leadership decisions.
• Work with People Technology, Insights & Payroll and collaborate with People & Capability, Finance and Digital Solutions.
• Balance multiple priorities and ensure accuracy in data, processes and reporting.

Skills

Advanced Excel

SQL

Education

Degree in Accounting/Finance/HR/IS/Data Analytics

NZPPA certification (advantage)

Job description

• Turn data into insights that shape workforceplanning
• Specialist role bridging payroll, systems andanalytics
• Purpose-led regional council serving Canterburycommunities
• Flexible working options + great learning anddevelopment

Kaunihera Taiao ki Waitaha/Environment Canterburyis the regional council for the largest region in Aotearoa New Zealand,covering 44,500 square kilometres and a population of around 700,000. Itmanages the region’s natural resources – air, soil, water and land – and worksin partnership with mana whenua Ngāi Tahu to protect the health of theenvironment and ensure a sustainable and prosperous future forWaitaha/Canterbury.

Its mahi is focused on three core services:Environmental Regulation and Protection, Community Preparedness and Response toHazards, and Public Transport.

In a fast-changing environmental and politicalcontext, the council is committed to staying agile and to make work easier forits people by improving systems and processes and accurate, insightfulworkforce information sits at the heart of that.

Payroll data holds some of the most valuableinformation an organisation has about its people: its workforce costs, whereleave liability is building, how the workforce is changing, and where risk isemerging. Environment Canterbury is looking for someone who can find thosepatterns and turn them into a clear, compelling story that helps leaders plan.

This isn’t a payroll processing role, and it isn’ta pure reporting role, it’s for someone who genuinely enjoys both and its aboutunderstanding data from the inside including how the Holidays Act, employmentagreements and system configuration shape payroll outcomes. This is a new role reportingto the Manager People Technology, Insights & Payroll within People, Safety& Wellbeing. The role works closely with People & Capability, Financeand Digital Solutions.

You'll bring at least seven years' experienceworking with payroll and workforce data in a medium to large organisation,along with strong knowledge of the Holidays Act and New Zealand payrolllegislation. Importantly, you'll understand how that legislation shapes payrolldata, processes and outcomes, and how payroll system configuration andprocessing rules drive what ends up in the numbers.

You'll be confident extracting and analysing datausing advanced Excel and SQL (or similar tools), and you'll have a track recordof turning that analysis into insights that influence business decisions.

Just as importantly, you'll be able to explaincomplex data and legislative impacts clearly and persuasively to people whoaren't specialists. You'll combine strong attention to detail with the abilityto manage competing priorities.

You'll also hold a degree in Accounting, Finance,Human Resources, Information Systems, Data Analytics or a related field, andNZPPA certification would be an advantage.

• Flexibleworking options
• Great learningand development opportunities
• Meaningful workthat directly supports the communities of Canterbury.

For more information please phone Jane Pollitt on [phone].