Payroll Specialist

Kia ora!

Ensure our people are paid accurately and on time, every time - your expertise will make a direct impact on Air New Zealand's most valuable asset, our employees.

As a Payroll Specialist, you'll play a pivotal role in processing payroll that supports thousands of Air New Zealanders.

This is a highly complex role, managing and interpreting numerous collective and individual employment agreements across a diverse workforce.

You'll be responsible for coordinating and maintaining pay-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.

How you'll make an impact

Manage payroll finalisation and interface processes, ensuring timely, accurate payments, 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, supporting accurate information 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 to identify improvements and proactively implement solutions

We know great talent comes in many forms.

If you bring strong experience and a fresh perspective, we'd love to hear from you.

How we look after our whanau

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 whanau

FlexiLeave - option to purchase up to four extra weeks of leave per year

Exclusive access to Koruhealth medical 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?

If you're driven by accuracy, process excellence, and the opportunity to shape a vital function at Air New Zealand, we invite you to apply and take your career to new heights.

Applications close Wednesday 12th November.

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.

Whaia 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."

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