People & Payroll Adviser - Sydney / Work From Home

Join Blue Knot Foundation, Australia's National Centre of Excellence for Complex Trauma, as our People & Payroll Adviser.

This is an opportunity for an experienced People & Culture professional with strong experience at HR Adviser level or above across the employee lifecycle, together with strong, demonstrated experience managing payroll. 

You will bring strong practical knowledge of the SCHADS Award, National Employment Standards (NES) and Australian employment legislation, using this expertise to provide sound advice, guide the organisation on the correct application of employment requirements and mitigate compliance risk, including through payroll.

This is a broad HR advisory role with significant payroll responsibility, reporting into the Head of People & Culture within a small, collaborative team and a purpose-driven national organisation.

Why Join Us?

• Remote-first work (NSW-based within commutable distance to North Sydney for approximately quarterly team meetings).
• Permanent part-time role (Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 9am-5pm base hours).
• Competitive salary with full PBI salary packaging benefits.
• Collaborative, high-performing People & Culture team.
• Opportunity to contribute to meaningful work in a growing national organisation.
• Values-driven, trauma-informed workplace committed to continuous improvement.

About the Role

Our People & Culture team plays a key role in enabling our people to deliver on our purpose. As a member of our small, high-performing team, you'll manage a number of core compliance functions and provide People & Culture advice whilst coordinating and administering a broad range of people processes across the employee lifecycle alongside other team members.

This is a genuinely hands-on role that combines payroll, advisory, coordination and administration responsibilities. You'll work collaboratively across the team and organisation to deliver accurate, compliant and timely outcomes while contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.

You'll be trusted to manage your delegated responsibilities with a high degree of professionalism, accuracy and legislative compliance while working collaboratively with both the team and broader organisation.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Coordinating payroll and ensuring payroll compliance in partnership with our external payroll provider.
• Managing Public Benevolent Institution (PBI) salary packaging administration.
• Coordinating portable long service leave reporting and compliance across multiple jurisdictions (we are national).
• Providing People & Culture advice and support across the employee lifecycle, which will include related admin.
• Interpreting and applying the SCHADS Award, National Employment Standards and relevant employment legislation accurately.
• Contributing to People & Culture projects, process improvements and continuous improvement initiatives.

About You

This role will suit an experienced People & Payroll professional looking to continue working at a high level in a three-day-per-week position. You have proven experience managing payroll and People & Culture responsibilities within a small or growing organisation and maintain contemporary working knowledge of the SCHADS Award, National Employment Standards (NES) and Australian employment legislation. You enjoy working in a hands-on role where accuracy, compliance, attention to detail and proactive identification and resolution of risks are essential.

You exercise sound professional judgement, understand your delegated responsibilities and accountabilities, and work collaboratively within a small, high-performing team. You are trusted to deliver accurate, timely and compliant outcomes, while recognising when to consult or escalate matters requiring further consideration or decision-making.

Your experience will include:

• Demonstrated experience providing HR advice on employee relations, performance, employment conditions and other employee lifecycle and workplace matters.
• Strong working knowledge of the SCHADS Award, National Employment Standards and Australian employment legislation.
• Extensive hands-on experience managing multiple complex payrolls each month either directly or indirectly in partnership with an external payroll provider (our payroll is currently the latter), ensuring 100% compliance with NES, SCHADS Award and payroll protocols. Experience with Xero Payroll and Deputy rostering will be highly regarded.
• Ability to identify compliance risks, resolve issues, and provide clear, timely, practical advice to managers, employees and external providers to support safe and enabling operations.  
• Exceptional attention to detail, with a strong commitment to legislative compliance and best practice.
• Experience working in a small, collaborative organisation and team, demonstrating engagement, accountability, initiative, resilience and flexibility.  
• Well-developed organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills, both internally and externally.
• Experience with ELMO HRIS will be advantageous, as we are currently implementing the system.
• Experience in the not-for-profit or community services sector will be highly regarded.

INTERESTED?

If this sounds like the opportunity you've been looking for, we'd love to hear from you.

To submit your application, please click ‘Apply Now’ by the closing date.

Applicants must reside in NSW, have an ergonomically safe and suitable dedicated home office with reliable high-speed internet, and within commuting distance to North Sydney for occasional in-person collaboration meetings.  We will provide the PC, monitors, keyboard and mouse.

We're looking for someone available to ideally commence in September.

Want to Know More?

For more information, please review the full position description attached below and job demands checklist. 

More information about working at Blue Knot can be located at https://blueknot.org.au/get-involved/jobs/.