Officer, Employee Benefits

• Human Resources
• HEW 5 ($78,944 - $87,750 + 17% super)
• Short-term, Full-time, Fixed-term position for leave coverage
• Closing date: Friday, 17 January 2025 at 11.00pm AEST

About This Opportunity

The Officer, Employee Benefits is responsible for the execution and administration of employee benefits processing and data entry to meet the operational and service delivery needs of the University. This includes timely, accurate and efficient processing and information provision related to salary packaging, employee superannuation, and other employee-related benefits.

The role ensures all transaction processing and data entry activity performed follows established business processes and standard operating procedures. This includes investigating, validating and escalating data integrity issues that compromise the quality and accuracy of transactions.

Key responsibilities will include: 

• Provision of information and assistance to staff of the University concerning their entitlements and obligations relating to superannuation and other employee benefits including salary packaging.
• Processing, administration, reconciliation and payments of superannuation and employee salary packaging accounts including payroll deductions and other salary packaged items.
• Prepare, investigate, and reconcile relevant General Ledger accounts.
• Request for Stapling fund information from ATO in a timely manner for impacted staff members.
• Ensure record keeping and archiving is maintained in line with the University’s and external compliance requirements.
• Acquire, maintain and apply up to date knowledge of UQ issues and trends, labour laws, superannuation legislation and relevant fund requirements.
• Assist in the testing of HRIS upgrades (service pack amendment) that impact on the operation of the People Services Unit.

About You

• Subsequent relevant experience in superannuation and/or salary packaging administration, or an equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training.
• Ability to apply problem solving and analytical skills to investigate and ensure data integrity in processing, and the resolution of any issues within the parameters of policy and/or relevant legislation.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of superannuation and salary packaging policies and legislation, including employee benefit tax implications, or the ability to rapidly gain such knowledge.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain productive working relationships with key stakeholders and clients ensuring service delivery meets key requirements.
• Experience working with enterprise technology and software solutions and systems, utilising multiple user modules for the submission of a diverse range of data and information sets.
• Ability to work effectively within a team environment, whilst taking full accountability for the efficient delivery of set tasks within agreed timeframes and to agreed service standards.

What We Can Offer

This is a full-time, fixed-term position through to March 2025 at HEW Level 5. 

The full-time equivalent base salary will be in the range $78,944 - $87,750 plus super of 17%. The total FTE package will be in the range**$92,364 - $102,667** per annum. 

For further information about UQ’s benefits, please visit Why Work at UQ and review  enterprise-agreement-2018-2021.pdf

Questions?

To discuss this role please contact Renee Bradford (Senior Manager, Payroll Services) at r.bradfordl@uq.edu.au

For application queries, please contact talent@uq.edu.au stating the job reference number in the subject line. 

Applications will be reviewed as received. Candidates may be interviewed prior to the job closing date. We encourage candidates to apply as soon as possible. The University of Queensland reserves the right to close this application process early.

Want to Apply?

All applicants must upload the following documents in order for your application to be considered:

• Cover letter addressing the ‘About You’ section
• Resume

Please note that you will be asked to add all documents into the one upload box labelled ‘resume’, which is step one of the application form.

About the Selection Process

To satisfy pre-requisite questions and ensure your application can be considered in full, all candidates must apply via the UQ Careers portal by the job closing deadline or will not be accepted. 
 

Other Information

You must maintain unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this appointment to apply. Employer sponsored work rights are not available for this appointment.

The successful candidate may be required to complete a number of pre-employment checks, including: right to work in Australia, criminal check, education check.

At UQ we know that our greatest strengths come from our diverse mix of colleagues, this is reflected in our ongoing commitment to creating an environment focused on equity, diversity and inclusion.  We ensure that we are always attracting, retaining and promoting colleagues who are representative of the diversity in our broader community, whether that begender identity,LGBTQIA+,cultural and/or linguistic,Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, orpeople with a disability. Accessibility requirements and/or adjustments can be directed to talent@uq.edu.au

If you are a current employee of the University, or hold an unpaid or affiliate appointment with the University, please login to your staff Workday account and visit the internal careers board to apply for this opportunity. Please do NOT apply via the external job board

Applications close Friday, 17 January 2025 at 11.00pm AEST (R-46271**).**