At C&K, our purpose is to make a positive impact on children’s lives. It’s what we’ve been doing for more than 115 years. Through evidence-based thinking, hard work and true compassion, we’ve built a trusted reputation as Queensland’s leading provider of early childhood education. And as a child safe organisation, we put children's safety and wellbeing at the heart of everything we do, creating nurturing spaces where children can learn, explore, play and grow.

Make an impact as a Payroll Officer and Support the Team That Supports Children

We’re looking for a detail-oriented and proactive Payroll Officer to join our close-knit payroll team with an immediate start available. In this permanent full-time role, you’ll play an integral part in delivering accurate and timely payroll services to around 2,000 employees, spanning both award and salaried wages. In this fast-paced environment, your sharp eye for detail and excellent interpersonal skills will help you thrive as you provide friendly, efficient support to those who rely on your expertise.

In this role, you will:

• Collect, coordinate, and process payroll data with accuracy and efficiency.
• Support the end-to-end payroll process for a workforce of approximately 2,000 employees.
• Respond to payroll-related queries, providing prompt, clear, and friendly support.
• Manage multiple priorities while working both independently and collaboratively within a supportive team.
• Ensure compliance with relevant awards, legislation, and internal policies.

“I love being part of an organisation whose vision is to see a state ‘where every child flourishes’. I value the opportunity to contribute, even in a small way, to the impactful work that is being done in the early childhood education sector.” - Alex Bron, Management Accountant

Find Your Better Way and Enjoy the Benefits

Every C&K career helps children belong and grow. We’ll set you up for success with a range of benefits, programs and opportunities to help you earn, be well and grow.

• Enjoy the stability of a permanent fulltime role working with 2 work from home days after completion of training.
• Find a healthy work-life balance with family-friendly priority access to C&K childcare centres and discounts of up to 35% of the gap fee.
• Be well and prosper with an Employee Assistance Program that includes financial counselling, nutrition coaching, individual counselling and specialist support for LGBTIQA+ and First Nations individuals.
• BUPA health insurance discounts
• Funded Blue Card and National Police Check.
• Take your career to new heights with professional development opportunities.
• Support the growth of our teams and earn a $1000 referral bonus reward.
• Plus so much more.

What you’ll bring

If you’re committed to guiding children’s early learning and development, we’ll set you up for success!

We strongly uphold our child safety policies and procedures. To thrive and succeed in this role, you will have:

• Valid Blue Card or Exemption Card.
• Current Police Check
• Experience with the interpretation and application of enterprise agreements, awards and other industrial instruments. 
• Experience using payroll systems with experience using iChris or Chris21 highly desirable and using time and attendance systems.

You will bring a passion for achieving long-lasting, high-quality outcomes for children, their families and the community alongside a team-player mindset - when you join C&K, you join a village of good-hearted, talented people, so you can lean on them as they lean on you.

Join us and find a better way with C&K - for children, for you, for always.

C&K is a child-safe organisation and all C&K employees are required to undergo a police check and not be a ‘Restricted Person’ or Suspended Educator under the QLD Blue Card System.

We welcome applicants who identify as an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, have a Culturally and /or Linguistically Diverse background and/or those with additional needs.