Tait Communications

Payroll Officer

Tait Communications  •  Christchurch, NZ (Onsite)  •  21 days ago
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Job Description

Te Tūranga - The Role

Are you an experienced payroll professional looking for the next step in your career? Tait Communications is seeking a Payroll Officer to join our high-performing team in Christchurch. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in ensuring the accurate and timely processing of our payroll functions across multiple locations.

As a Payroll Officer, you will be responsible for preparing and processing the weekly payroll for Tait International Limited, as well as supporting and processing pays for our Regional teams. This role will also provide support to the Payroll Manager and backing up other payrolls within the team as required. You'll have the opportunity to work on key remediation projects and contribute to process improvements, helping to ensure our payroll systems remain compliant and efficient.

The duties of the role will include:

  • Processing weekly payroll for Tait International as well as Regional payrolls (at the moment this is Tait North America, Tait Asia Pacific), including terminations and new starters.
  • Providing accurate and timely payroll information to TIL management.
  • Preparing monthly journals and reconciliations for payroll.
  • Processing other payrolls as required for:
    • Tait International Limited (Monthly)
    • Tait Systems NZ Limited
    • RFI Technology Solutions Limited
  • Supporting the Payroll Manager and other team members as needed.
  • Calculating remediation for Holidays Act non-compliance for former employees.
  • Reviewing or creating templates for calculations and interrogating payment/leave history in PayGlobal.
  • Contributing to other payroll-related projects within the team as required.

Ō pūkenga - About You

To be successful in this role, you will have relevant qualifications and/or significant payroll experience. You'll thrive in a fast-paced environment, demonstrating a high level of accuracy and attention to detail. We're looking for someone who can jump in, be a team player, be flexible where needed and add real value to our small team.

Required:

  • 3+ years' payroll experience.
  • Strong understanding of payroll statutory requirements.
  • Methodical and well-organised approach to work.
  • Ability to manage workload and meet reporting and processing deadlines.

Preferred:

  • Experience using PayGlobal and TimeFiler.

Ngā painga - What's in it for you?

At Tait Communications, we are committed to making a difference for families and communities while helping our people build rewarding careers. When you join us, you'll benefit from:

  • Health and Wellbeing: Health insurance, annual flu vaccinations, and extra sick leave in your first year.
  • Work Environment: Modern office facilities with free onsite parking, a gym, and a café.
  • Recognition: Long service benefits to acknowledge your commitment.
  • Work-Life Balance: A supportive culture with a fun and active social club.

Ko wai mātou - About Us

For over 50 years, Tait Communications has been at the forefront of designing, delivering, and supporting critical communications networks for public safety, transportation, and utility customers worldwide. Founded in Christchurch by Sir Angus Tait, we now have a global network of customers and offices.

At Tait, you'll be part of a creative team committed to providing technological solutions that make a real difference to communities. Our people are passionate about their work and support each other to grow and develop.

Ko koe pea tēnei? - Sound like your kind of role?

If you're ready to take the next step in your career and work alongside a talented team delivering great results, we'd love to hear from you!

  • Apply now with your CV and cover letter.
  • Applications will be assessed as they are received.
  • Applications close in two weeks.

For more information about Tait Communications and our products, visit www.taitcommunications.com

Tait Communications

About Tait Communications

Our clients protect communities, power cities, move citizens, harness resources and save lives all over the world. We work with them to create, support and unify the critical communication solutions they depend on to do their jobs.

Digital wireless communication forms the central nervous system of everything we do. Around this resilient, robust core we design, develop, manufacture, test, deploy, support and manage innovative communication environments for organizations that have to put their total trust in the systems and people they work with.

We’ve worked hard to develop genuine insight into our clients’ worlds, and have pursued engineering, operational and services excellence for more than 40 years. This understanding, and our belief in championing open-standards technology, means we can give our clients the best possible choice and value to achieve the human outcomes they’re driven by.

We’re not simply aligned with our clients; we’re devoted to their cause.

Tait Communications’ sole dividend receiving shareholder is a charitable trust which shares the company’s operating profits across several donation and investment streams responsible for research and development, regional reinvestment and education. This rare model means clients can rely on Tait Communications to be an independent long-term player in the critical communications industry and to continue to play its role of ‘open-standards champion’.

Industry
Telecommunications
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Christchurch, NZ
Year Founded
1969
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