Principal Payroll Analyst

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE
- Join our friendly and collaborative People Operations Team
- 8 month Fixed-term opportunity
- Wellington based with flexible working options
- Salary range $81K - $97K plus kiwisaver Tēnei tūranga - About the Role:
We have an opportunity for a Principal Payroll Analyst to join the People Operations team. In this role you will provide input into a number of tasks and projects relating to the People Operations team. You will also support the manager in developing best practices to ensure high quality and on-time deliverables. It is imperative that the Principal Payroll Analyst collaborates and respects the experiences of others to ensure SLAs are meet, fully documented and audited at all times.
You will bring your strong Payroll knowledge and have a collaborative approach with ability to work well within a busy team environment, sharing your knowledge and embracing new ideas and ways of doing things to enhance processes that impact the team. You will demonstrate your ability to effectively prioritise your workload, work to tight deadlines and maintain performance during pressure periods.
At MBIE, your career won’t stand still. Our aim is to ensure you are positively challenged, so you can develop both your career, and yourself. We’re a large, far-reaching organisation undertaking complex and diverse work, this means there are opportunities to take on new and interesting work.
We will also help you to manage a healthy work-life balance; with flexi-time and some days working from home options to name a few. We would welcome the opportunity to discuss what works for you and for us.
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Ngā pukenga me ngā wheako e hiahiatia ana - Skills and Experience Required
- Working under pressure - can produce results under significant pressure, staying calm and effective
- Priority setting - spends their time and the time of others on what’s important; quickly determines a key priority and eliminates roadblocks
- Attention to detail and sound numerical ability and accurate data entry skills
- Excellent written and spoken communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience in a large, complex and diverse payroll with in-depth technical payroll knowledge and a proven track record of effectiveness.
- Experience in managing relationships and providing knowledge and interpretation as required on detailed payroll matters, including relevant legislation and contractual terms in a payroll
- Must have the legal right to live and work in Aotearoa

**Ētahi kōrero mō MBIE - About MBIE**: MBIE's goal is to create a resilient and high-performing economy that delivers real and ongoing quality of life for all New Zealanders.
We do this by working with others to create an environment that supports businesses to be more productive and internationally competitive, enables all New Zealanders to participate in the economy through improved job opportunities and by working to ensure quality housing is more affordable.
People are at the heart of our mahi, our way of working is guided by our values which shape our behaviours.
- Mahi Tahi - Better Together
- Māia - Bold and brave
- Pae Kahurangi - Build our Future
- Pono Me Te Tika - Own It Our aspirations are echoed in our Māori identity - Hīkina Whakatutuki - which broadly means ‘lifting to make successful'.

MBIE recognises the partnership founded under Te Tiriti o Waitangi between Māori and the Crown and is committed to giving effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. We will do this through enduring, meaningful and effective partnerships with iwi, Māori, other Māori groups/organisations and the Crown, as this is critical to enable economic and social development, both for Māori and for wider Aotearoa New Zealand. We are committed to continuing to partner with iwi in order to find new sustainable solutions to address long standing systemic and cross-cutting issues facing Māori and wider Aotearoa New Zealand and we are also committed to identifying opportunities for iwi to lead and creating an enabling environment for iwi to leverage these opportunities.
E mōhio ana a Hīkina Whakatutuki i puea ake te kōtuinga I waenganui i a ngāi Māori me te Karauna i Te Tiriti o Waitangi, ā, kei te whai ia ki te whakaū ake i Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Mā te whai kiko o ngā kōtuinga ahungaroa o ngāi wi, o ngāi Māori, me ētahi atu rōpū Māori ki te Karauna, katutuki tēnei. He āhuatanga nui tēnei e āhei ai ngā mahi whanaketanga ā-ohanga, ā-pāpori hoki ki a ngāi Māori me Aotearoa whānui. E whai tonu ana mātou ki te kōtui atu ki ngā iwi mō te rapu huarahi hou ki te whakaara i ngā kaupapakua roa nei e tāmi ana i a ngāi Māori me Aotearoa whānui, ā, e whai ana hoki ki te tautohu i ngā āheinga kōkiritanga mā ngā iwi, me te tautoko i ngā iwi kia whai mana ake ai ēnei āheinga.

**Me pēhea te tono - How to Apply**:
Applications close on Sunday 9