Total 14 payroll analyst job vacancies in Australia

We are embarking on an HR system implementation across Nine. We are looking for a Business Analyst to work closely with our People & Culture team to deliver a series of initiatives that will be critical to set this program up for success. This is for a six month contract with the potential of extending the role to support the design, development and deployment of the system.

Day to day you will:

• Work with People & Culture, Payroll & the Business to cleanse our People data. This will involve agreeing principles, methodology and prioritisation framework to conduct the data cleanse and the coordination of a review and update of key data elements
• Agree standard definitions for common data elements, mapping data fields to our Finance system and designing a proces to maintain the people data fields that are updated.
• Work collaboratively with all Business units to understand and document their current state HR processes and be able to clearly capture varying requirements and needs across the BUs. This will include, for example: org management, onboarding, oddboarding, variations, leave management, compensation management and learning & development.
• Work with People & Culture to document and align Nine’s job architecture across the Business. This will involve defining and documenting a standard job classification framework including organising jobs into function and families.
• Identify opportunities for process standardisation across the Business.
• Work collaboratively with the People & Culture team to define the outcomes required and develop an approach to deliver against this within a defined timeframe.
• Engage with a broad variety of stakeholders at different levels, across various business units.
• Support the project team and business, building a trust relationship with ability to influence and challenge where required.

The Commercial Products team manages a fleet of custom-built and off the shelf systems that perform critical functions for our Sales Operations, Traffic, Finance and Presentation teams, which make it possible for us to sell and traffic ads. In other words, our systems manage all revenue associated with broadcast today and progressively into digital.

Ideally you have worked with Salesforce over the last couple of years, have a focus on industry cloud solutions, and are comfortable working from implementation to adoption. 

Role responsibilities

• User Management: Create, manage, and deactivate user accounts, roles, and permissions to ensure data security and accessibility.
• System Maintenance: Monitor and maintain system performance, security, and data integrity.
• Customisation: Customise Salesforce applications, including the creation of reports, dashboards, page layouts, and workflow automation.
• Data Management: Perform data imports, exports, backups, and cleansing to maintain high-quality data standards.
• Training & Support: Provide training and ongoing support to users, helping them to navigate the platform and utilise its features effectively.
• Documentation: Develop and maintain documentation of system configurations, processes, and user procedures.
• Collaboration: Work with various departments to gather requirements, deliver solutions, and enhance the Salesforce platform to meet evolving business needs.
• Updates & Releases: Stay up-to-date with Salesforce releases and new features; assess their impact and implement necessary updates.

The Cyber Security Analyst will be a part of the security operations team (SOC) aspiring to detect, hunt and respond to cyber security threats to Nine. This role will be a great fit for a blue teamer with understanding and interest in red team tactics and techniques, someone with an analyst mindset who wants to be actively involved in threat hunting, threat intelligence management and investigations using automation, data analysis and curiosity.

This is a hands-on role in a flexible working environment in a small but high functioning and diverse team.  The role  involves detection engineering, incident response, threat hunting and will be interacting with a broad set of business units. Hence, communication skills, problem solving and day to day learning are a big part of it. There is opportunity for involvement in a wide variety of cyber transformational work, training and upskilling.

Responsibilities 

• Investigation and analysis of alerts, advisories and incidents

• Attack surface mapping, critical vulnerability triage and impact analysis

• Curation, enrichment and correlation of indicators, creating actionable intel and managing their lifecycle

• Detection engineering, development and improvement of detection signature base across the SOC toolset

• Data and attack based threat hunting

• Reporting on threat intel, metrics and publishing internal advisories 

• Automation of investigation, incident response and threat intel workflows

• Security Operations tooling management, configuration and operations

• Rotational on call roster 

Nine is currently seeking an enthusiastic and self-motivated applicant to join its Broadcast Technology Support team in providing technical and operational support across its production facility located in North Sydney.

The position of Broadcast Technology Support Analyst is a full time, rotating shift role covering 7 days a week. The purpose of this role is to:

• Serve as the initial point of contact for internal customers, handling their inquiries via phone calls and ticketing systems. 
• Proactively identify and address any issues raised by internal customers
• Analyse problems and determine if they can be resolved independently; or escalate complex issues 

The successful candidate will be part of an enthusiastic team responsible for day to day support of sophisticated, up to date, technical broadcast systems including:

• Studio Automation
• Live Studio Production 
• Post Production and Non-linear editing systems
• Digital Asset Management
• Digital News Gathering 
• Video Contribution, Distribution and Encoding 
• Master Control Facilities

As the Head of Payroll within our finance team, you will lead and inspire the payroll services team, driving transformation and excellence in payroll operations. Your role will be pivotal in mentoring, training, and developing your team to ensure the precise and timely calculation of employee payments within a complex and dynamic environment.

You will also be responsible for fostering robust internal and external client relationships, collaborating with stakeholders across the Nine Group to deliver exceptional payroll services and support the achievement of strategic business objectives. Your leadership will be key in navigating challenges and enhancing the overall efficiency and effectiveness of our payroll function.

Day to day you will:

• Ensure payroll operations are timely, efficient, accurate, and compliant with all legal and regulatory requirements across a large and complex environment.
• Develop and maintain payroll schedules and service levels that focus on business needs and the employee experience. 
• Ensure all correspondence and payroll data is treated in the strictest confidence.
• Ensure all reports and statistics are accurate and completed and distributed within designated deadlines.
• Manage and prioritise escalations with key internal/external stakeholders. 
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and partner with key internal stakeholders such as People and Culture, Finance and Technology to deliver transformation projects.

People leader responsibilities:

• Provide leadership, support and guidance to employees regarding payroll matters.
• Implement innovative and strategic payroll initiatives that align with team goals and improve payroll efficiency.
• Lead the Payroll Services team, fostering an environment that recognises teamwork, strengthens the team and its contribution to the business.
• Manage individual’s performance, development and growth.
• Drive staff training, including exposing the team to various EBAs, agreements, and pay cycles.
• Partner closely with the People and Culture Team to enable a positive and seamless employee experience.

The Pricing team is a specialist division within the Sales Operations Team, responsible for developing and implementing pricing strategies to maximise revenue potentials. The team provides timely and insightful data to key stakeholders within the company to assist in making trading decisions within the competitive television marketplace.

As a member of the Pricing team you will be responsible for the maintenance & analysis of critical pricing reports which inform pricing strategies. Your role will also include a number of day to day functions in support of the Pricing Manager.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work closely with the Pricing Manager to maintain pricing modelling tools.
• Provide regular feedback and recommendations on Network pricing.
• Monitor and provide regular reporting on audience trends to align with and adapt pricing strategies.
• Provide regular reporting on changes in pricing strategy to key stakeholders within the business. 
• Generate rate cards for distribution to internal and external customers.
• Take ownership of and maintain the Sports and Special event pricing database.
• Ad-hoc reporting assistance as required
• Other tasks as reasonably required

Employee Responsibilities

• Demonstrates a positive and professional communication style
• Participates in and supports a team environment
• Communicates in a clear, timely and consistent manner
• Shares information in a positive way
• Where required follows NEC company policies and procedures
• Supports and participates in a safe workplace culture

Our highly valued Research & Insights Analysts are key members within a group of media research specialists who provide insights and data analytics support across the business.

As a key member of the team, you will support a wide range of internal departments across the business including National Sales, Powered, Programming, Program EP’s, Marketing including Trade Marketing, Publicity team. 

Reporting to the Head of Research - Total TV you will be responsible for:

• Responding effectively and in a timely manner to research requests from the sales team
• Producing and maintaining audience reports and dashboards
• Working with the team to proactively develop new sales research presentations and collateral
• Analysing Cross Platform, TV and BVOD ratings and interpreting audience behaviour
• Providing support for bespoke surveys run by the research team
• Using research tools such as L & J Fusion, Arianna, TVMAP, Clear Decisions, Asteroid, iPORT as well as Nine proprietary tools to provide information to sales and other key stakeholders

The Group Payroll Team works in partnership with all divisions of Nine to comply with all relevant employee legislation and regulations applicable for the Media industry.

As a Payroll Officer of this team, you will be responsible for the day-to-day processing and timely and accurate payment of salary and wages to employees across the employing entities within the Group.  You are the first line of support to employees, and various teams which include People + Culture and  Finance.  Responding to issues in a timely manner is critical in this role to ensure a positive user experience across the Nine Group. 

• High volume manual timesheet award interpretation and data entry.

• Processing large volumes of end-to-end new employee's contracts, terminations and relevant employment changes.

• Processing timely payroll transactions, calculations as well as peer checking relevant pay run.

• Providing exceptional customer service answering general level 2-3 payroll queries including but not limited to awards, policies, superannuation, and taxation.

• Communicating with internal and external stakeholders within SLAs.

• Adhering to all relevant awards/legislative instruments and relevant legislation.

• Preparing timely delivery of employee pay advice, government agency reporting and ad hoc payroll reporting.

• Collation of payroll documentation in line with internal and external audit requirements.

• Undertaking all leave reconciliations i.e., Annual Leave, Long Service Leave and Sick Leave and any other leave as required.

• Maintain employee master data record and conduct regular audits.

• Regular filing and archiving of payroll information.

• Comprehensive knowledge of superannuation, taxation, payroll tax and other payroll legislative requirements.

An exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Business Analyst to join our Television Finance team at Nine. Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager – News and Current Affairs, you will be pivotal in delivering the financial results for Television Finance.

From month-end reporting to forecasting and budgeting, to suggesting efficiencies and understanding the products that are News and Current Affairs, you will play a key role in ensuring the financial health of the individual departments as well as enhancing the finance and business partnership efforts company-wide.

You will:

• Provide month end reporting and analysis for the News and Current Affairs Departments including Today Show, A Current Affair, Today Extra, and Sixty Minutes – liaising with the Executive Producers and Unit Managers for these productions.
• Analyse monthly expenses, variance analysis
• ensuring budget alignment and identifying efficiency opportunities.
• Present to Department Managers / Executive Producers actuals and forecast position to identify any financial concerns, suggest improvements and implement agreed changes on a regular basis.
• Identify areas for improvement & strategies to streamline processes & business requirements within News and Current Affairs.
• Be responsible for the financial statements of the LA & London Bureaus. Provide the month end review of the London and LA Bureau trial balance and communicate, review, advise and process the month end accounts.
• Preparation and/or guidance in the News and Current Affairs staff approval paperwork process, liaising with People and Culture, and ensuring compliance against the relevant award.
• Develop precise annual departmental bottom up budgets, covering all essential costs along with identifying areas of efficiency 
• Build strong relationships with key News and Current Affair genre team members including News Directors, Executive Producers, Unit Managers, and key senior producers.
• Foster a culture of improvement and collaboration within the finance team.
• Ensure strict compliance with control frameworks and adapt to evolving standards.
• Mentor the Management Accountant – News and Current Affairs, providing training and guidance.
• Other duties as reasonably required.

From a business partnering perspective, you will excel in managing internal and external relationships, supporting business partners with accurate financial insights, and effectively communicating financial analysis to senior stakeholders. You will be able to adapt to the differing situations/scenarios that may present to you. Additionally, you'll play a pivotal role in identifying efficiencies within the News & Current Affairs function.

An exciting and fast paced opportunity for an experienced Senior Business Analyst to join our Television Finance team at Nine.

Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager – Reporting & Planning, you will be pivotal in delivering the financial results, forecasts & budget for Television Finance and will collaborate closely with the Television Finance, Group and Planning teams in the achievement of the finance objectives at Nine.

Day to day you will:

• Work closely with the different teams within the TV finance function across Local Productions, News & Current Affairs, Sport and Broadcast Operations to deliver financial results and forecasts
• Perform the Television Revenue reconciliation and program revenue analytics, understanding the key drivers of revenue 
• Assist in the annual budget process and consolidation of the Total TV budget deliverables, 5YP target tracking and CFO reporting requirements
• Manage network P&L items including defamation, annual & long service leave, and statutory licenses
• Have ownership of the TV associates accounting and forecasting, including analysis of their results and liaising with the external finance teams
• Collaborate for the ongoing maintenance of the consolidated TV P&L and Balance Sheets and team deliverables to Group Head Office
• Drive enhancements in reporting and analysis processes to optimise efficiency

Our highly valued Media Research Analysts are key members within a group of media research specialists who provide insights and data analytics support across the business.

As a key member of the team, you will support a wide range of internal departments across the business including National Sales, Powered, Programming, Program EP’s, Marketing including Trade Marketing, Publicity team. 

Reporting to the Head of Research - Total TV you will be responsible for:

• Responding effectively and in a timely manner to research requests from the sales team
• Producing and maintaining audience reports and dashboards
• Working with the team to proactively develop new sales research presentations and collateral
• Analysing Cross Platform, TV and BVOD ratings and interpreting audience behaviour
• Providing support for bespoke surveys run by the research team
• Using research tools such as LandJ Fusion, Arianna, TVMAP, Clear Decisions, Asteroid, iPORT, Tableau as well as Nine proprietary tools to provide information to sales and other key stakeholders

An exciting opportunity for a Time and Attendance Analyst to join our payroll team based in North Sydney. In this collaborative role you will work across Payroll, People & Culture, IT, Rostering Managers and the wider Nine business to embed and improve processes to capture, track and resolve system maintenance requests and end user issues in relation to the Time & Attendance system (Humanforce). Your attention to detail and demonstrated experience is required to accurately maintain the system, ensure compliance with employee agreements, and deliver training and support. 

Day to day you will: 

• Maintain accurate and updated functional documentation and training materials

• Support the business with system maintenance and access requests and pay related issues

• Ensure maintenance tasks such as updates to Humanforce Workflows and roles / access are tracked and actioned in a time effective manner

• Manage and coordinate the setup of any new awards and ongoing changes

• Maintain reporting lines in the T&A system

• Review and maintain the system to ensure all hours are entered, approved and processed

• Coordinate with Payroll the interface of approved time data into the Payroll system and employee data from the Payroll system to setup employees in Humanforce

• Ensure all statutory and regulatory requirements for payroll are met (statutory holiday calculations, leave and overtime hours) and processed as required

The Research & Insights Analyst will be responsible for providing reporting, research and insights into the performance of Nine's Digital and Publishing brands to key stakeholders within the company to assist in the growth of audience reach & revenue within the competitive digital and publishing marketplace.  

The role sits within the broader Sales Research & Insights team who assist to provide insights across all of Nine’s media assets including Total TV and Total Audio.

Day to day you will:

• Respond effectively to research requests from the sales team and ensure the salesperson understands the research and its application in telling a good sales story for Nine’s Digital & Publishing brands
• Analyse site traffic and find patterns of behaviour that can be leveraged to maximise advertising revenue
• Produce and maintain audience reports and dashboards
• Conduct internal Ad Effectiveness research studies for Nine’s clients including scripting surveys, analysing the data and building presentations of the results
• Use data from industry research tools such as Ipsos Iris Digital Ratings, Roy Morgan, OzTAM and VOZ to provide information to the sales teams for inclusion in proposals and responses to advertising client briefs and to help business strategy

Nine is currently seeking an expression of interest for an enthusiastic and self-motivated applicant to join its Broadcast Technology Support team in providing technical and operational support across its production facility located in Perth.

The position of Broadcast Technology Support Analyst is a full time, rotating shift role covering 7 days a week. The purpose of this role is to:

• Serve as the initial point of contact for internal customers, handling their inquiries via phone calls and ticketing systems. 
• Proactively identify and address any issues raised by internal customers
• Analyse problems and determine if they can be resolved independently; or escalate complex issues 

The successful candidate will be part of an enthusiastic team responsible for day to day support of sophisticated, up to date, technical broadcast systems including:

• Studio Automation
• Live Studio Production 
• Post Production and Non-linear editing systems
• Digital Asset Management
• Digital News Gathering 
• Video Contribution, Distribution and Encoding 
• Master Control Facilities