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Job Title


HR and Payroll Advisor


Company : Queensland Government


Location : Brisbane, Queensland


Created : 2025-07-23


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

Your OpportunityThis role will work in the Human Resources (HR) team, the team is responsible for providing professional advice and support through the employee lifecycle for the ECQ workforce plus the management of the Temporary Election Staff (TES) workforce during election period.The team is also responsible for delivering HR initiatives and policies to establish best practice HR processes aligned to whole-of-government legislation.The role will report to the Team Leader HR and provide payroll management and operational HR assistance.Your ContributionProvide high level payroll advice and guidance through election periods for state, local government and by-elections, including end to end processing of Temporary Election Staff payments.Provide operational HR advice and support across the HR team to support the ECQ employee lifecycle.Maintain an understanding of contemporary human resource management practices as well as a comprehensive understanding of relevant legislation, industrial agreements, policies and procedures and ensure that practices within client groups are consistent with these.Understand and interpret HR directives to provide generalist HR advice on a range of matters relating to allowances and entitlements, electoral event tasks, HR policies and procedures, and other related HR disciplines for ECQ staffProvide accurate and timely expert payroll advice and services implementing internal controls to limit risk and non-compliance across the payroll function (i.e. taxation and superannuation).Understand and interpret payroll management and service delivery issues relating to the Temporary Election Staff workforce to deliver a seamless payroll objective.Partner with Australian Electoral Commission, Recruit Complete, QSuper, Queensland Shared Services, Public Sector Commission, Office of Industrial Relations, and key stakeholders to build and maintain the payroll function with the Team Leader with the obligation for ECQ.Provide continuous learning when developing business processes and efficiency across the payroll and HR functions, working closely with the Team Leader and HR team.Maintain internal and external relationships across ECQ, the sector, other electoral agencies and payroll services stakeholdersContribute to team cohesiveness, wellbeing and capability through participation in establishing a positive environment, respectful of the views of others across the HR team and broader ECQ workforce.Consistently display the Queensland Government values, ensuring that these are upheld and championed when representing ECQ.Applications to remain current for 12 months.Job Ad Reference: QLD/647574/25Closing Date: Tuesday 22 July 2025Occupational group HR & Industrial Relations #J-18808-Ljbffr