Payroll Specialist

**Role and Responsibilities** **About CAE** At CAE, we equip people in critical roles with the expertise and solutions to create a safer world. As a technology company, we digitalize the physical world, deploying software-based simulation training and critical operations support solutions. Above all else, we empower pilots, cabin crew, airlines, defence and security forces and healthcare practitioners to perform at their best every day and when the stakes are the highest. Around the globe, we’re everywhere customers need us to be with more than 13,000 employees in approximately 250 sites and training locations in over 40 countries. CAE represents more than 75 years of industry firsts—the highest-fidelity flight, mission and medical simulators and training programs powered by digital technologies. We embed sustainability in everything we do. Today and tomorrow, we’ll make sure our customers are ready for the moments that matter. **Payroll Specialist and HR Admin (14 month Fixed Term Contract)** Your primary responsibility will be to work alongside our Finance team to manage the full end-to-end processing of our NZ monthly pay run and working collaboratively with our local advisors to complete the fortnightly pay run for our Manila employees. As a Payroll expert, you will be our local payroll expert and the ‘go to’ person for all NZ and Philippines pay-related queries. You will also support the local HR Manager with any office admin, employment related queries and/or people focused projects with the purpose to continuously improve the employee experience. This is a varied role that is not only responsible for ensuring our payroll is processed in a timely and accurate manner but involves a wide range of HR related activities and will be an integral part of a team that is the first point of call for all employee-related queries. **Are you ready to**: - Have full responsibility for the end-to end process of payroll for New Zealand and Philippines (monthly and fortnightly respectively) - Ensure compliance with employment legislation and regulations - Set and maintain employee records for the processing of new hires - Process leave entitlements - Calculate and process termination payments including Kiwisaver, leave entitlements and/or redundancy payments and employee income tax/withholding tax applicable. - Processing timesheets - Produce end-of-month reconciliation and payroll reporting - Ensure tax and government payments processed in timely manner - Ensuring employee-related data is accurate and maintained - Assisting in the delivery and coordination of People focused initiatives - Supporting the induction and onboarding processes for new staff - Improving the employee experience in process, policies, and people focused initiatives - Local office admin including (but not limited to) - Collating data for monthly and quarterly H&S reports - Managing office deliveries and supplies - Managing Telecoms relationship with provider - Contact and key liaison for suppliers and property manager - Processing purchase orders - Coordinating local social events and SWAG - Previous experience in running end-to-end payroll processes - Experience in interpretation of employment agreements - Experience in working payroll and HRIS systems such as Workday, Smartly, BambooHR, Jira, Workforce - Strong customer service orientation and a can-do attitude - Strong Microsoft Office, particularly excel, skills - Evidence of being people and experience focused - Previous experience working for a global company - Integration of HR and/or payroll systems - Previous generalist HR experience **CAE offers**: - central Ponsonby location - an environment where your initiatives will be recognized and valued. - the opportunity to work on a variety of projects on a multidisciplinary team. - flexible schedules, and hybrid work policy - attractive employee benefits including Southern Cross Healthcare and a generous flexible leave policy LI-KM1 **Position Type** Temporary (Fixed Term) CAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However, only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted. **Equal Employment Opportunity** At CAE, everyone is welcome to contribute to our success. With no exception. As captured in our overarching value "One CAE", we’re proud to work as one passionate, boundaryless and inclusive team. At CAE, all employees are welcome regardless of race, nationality, colour, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity or age. The masculine form may be used in this job description solely for ease of reading, but refers to men, women and the gender diverse.