Payroll Officer
- Ensure accurate and timely payroll processing for over 1000 employees.
- Provide high-level customer service and support for payroll queries.
- Engage with stakeholders and maintain compliance with relevant laws.
Charlestown, NSW
Allambi Care are searching for our next Payroll Officer, to join out Finance team in our Charlestown office.
Applications close Friday 23rd October 2026
About Allambi Care
Allambi Care is a multi-disciplined and recognised leader in the human services field working across NSW and Victoria. We are committed to supporting our community’s most vulnerable people through tailored services and programs. With over 40 years’ experience, our ‘never give up’ approach ensures the needs of the people we care for are our first priority.
What we can offer you
- Full Time Employment
- Salary Packaging - Package living expenses and more
- 4 Weeks Annual Leave
- 12 Roster Days Off a year (One per month)
- Monday - Friday work week (generally 8:30am - 5:00pm)
- On-site cafe
Position Objective
To ensure that employees are paid accurately and on time, while complying the with the relevant laws as well as maintaining accurate records.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- High volume payroll processing, 1000+ employees per fortnight
- Provide a high level of customer service to relevant payroll
- Payroll queries
- Payroll journals
- Lodgement of returns/surveys as required
- Engaging with multiple senior stakeholders, regulators & relevant authorities
- Provide support to the whole of Allambi on payroll related matters.
- Adhere to a culture of continuous improvement
- Ensure all AC policies and procedures are always followed, and any changes are adhered to
Minimum requirements (Essential Criteria)
- At least 2 years’ experience in payroll or a finance/bookkeeping role
Attention to detail - Well-developed customer service and communications skills.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and adapt to change in a growing organisation
- Working knowledge of awards (SCHADs award desirable, but not essential) plus superannuation and workers compensation processing.
- End to end payroll experience ideally within a NFP or community sector (desirable).
- Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills (desirable)
- Must be a self-starter and highly motivated
Must have these documents if successful.
- Current Working with Children Check (for paid employment - can be obtained via: https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/transaction/apply-working-children-check)
- Current NDIS Worker Check: (can be obtained via: https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/transaction/ndiswc-apply)
- National Police Check (this must be obtained via: https://www.employmentscreeninggroup.com/au/allambi/)
- A current driver’s licence
- Comprehensive Car Insurance
- Certificate of Completion: NDIS Worker Orientation Module (can be accessed via: https://training.ndiscommission.gov.au/)
- Willingness to participate in pre-employment medical checks
- Two professional references
If you meet the above criteria and you’re interested in contributing to an organisation that values the highest level of quality in everything it sets out to achieve, we want to hear from you!
Please note, applications must include a cover letter addressing above essential criteria and a complete resume including two professional references.
Allambi Care is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and welcomes applications from people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds as well as People With a Disability.
We are unable to accommodate visa sponsorship for applicants requiring a visa for this position.
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