Airservices Australia is a government-owned organisation responsible for the safe and efficient management of 11% of the world’s airspace and provision of aviation rescue firefighting services at Australia’s busiest airports.
Our dynamic and diverse teams operate from locations across the country from bustling cities to regional and remote locations, including an island. We keep Australia’s aviation industry safe every day of the year, both in the air and on the ground.
We connect people with their world safely – linking family and friends, generating economic activity, creating jobs, and facilitating trade and tourism.
We’re shaping a once-in-a-century step-change. Given the emergence of new airspace users, new aerodromes, and a range of new crewed and uncrewed aircraft, we are working closely with our customers and the community, as we adapt our service offerings to cater to these new and diverse aviation participants, ensuring we continue to keep our skies safe while balancing our environmental and social responsibilities.
We encourage motivated individuals who love what they do, value a service- first mindset and embrace a challenge or two… to explore a career with Airservices.
Why Airservices? We offer excellent opportunities, ongoing training throughout your career, and exceptional benefits. You will collaborate with a diverse group of people while doing meaningful work that benefits the Australian community and visitors.
The Role and Team
The Payroll Services function is responsible for the end-to-end payroll process, payroll reporting, compliance activities, and payroll system support across Airservices Australia.
As a Senior Payroll Officer on the Payroll Operations team, you will be responsible, for undertaking Tier 2 and 3 payroll processing tasks as identified in the Payroll Service Catalogue. Working as part of a larger team, and reporting to the Payroll Services Lead, tasks will range from being routine transactional data entry to complex tasks which will require analytical investigation and technical work with data and databases.
The Senior Payroll Officer provides mentoring and support to Payroll Officers, while reviewing and testing SAP HR (Payroll) system changes driven by enterprise agreements, legislation, policy updates, and process improvements.
Please see the link below to view the full Position Description:
ASA5_Senior Payroll Officer.pdf
The Person
- Ability to work an effective member of a Team whilst contributing to a positive team culture.
- The capacity to work independently.
- An aptitude for working through problems and identifying solutions.
- The capacity to work towards deadlines with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Ability to manage and organise tasks in the context of competing priorities.
- Demonstrated customer service focus and ability to build and maintain effective working relationships.
- Understanding of, or ability to quickly acquire understating of, current Payroll processes, superannuation legislation and Airservices Enterprise Agreements.
- Ability to identify, analyse and resolve SAP HR (payroll) systems issues.
- Exception/Issues Management combined with strong interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrated initiative, strong problem solving and analytical skills.
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities and adjust to changing work demands and circumstances.
- Extensive experience in the use of SAP HR (Payroll) systems.
- Experience in training and mentoring to less experienced Team members.
- Capacity to identify process improvements and lead change in a Team environment.
How to Apply
To apply for this position please lodge an application online before Applications close 11.55 pm (AEST) Sunday 27 July, 2025