Holidays Act Transition Officer

• Health New Zealand Payroll Team, Corporate Office in Hastings
• 80 hour’s per fortnight, (1.0 FTE)
• Full-Time, Fixed Term until 31/12/2025

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is dedicated to serving all New Zealanders. Through integration and collaboration, we’re building a health system underpinned by partnership, equity, sustainability, whānau-centred care, and excellence.

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora Te Matau a Māui as a Transition Officer (Holidays Act).

You will work alongside a group of experienced payroll professionals to monitor payroll compliance. Join our team and play a crucial role in the health system at a local level.

About the Team/Service/ Location

In this role, you will provide oversight and support to the Payroll teams and stakeholders to ensure ongoing compliance with the Holidays Act, tax and any other legislative regulations.

Located in the sunny Hawkes Bay we live in pure paradise. We are known for award-winning food and wine, outstanding architecture, and warm balmy days surrounded by magnificent landscape.

About you

We have a vacancy for someone who is passionate and keen to work in a complex environment and can appreciate that payroll is not just pushing buttons.

Key responsibilities include:

• Ensuring compliant configuration is maintained in the payroll systems
• Ensure compliance with all relevant statutory, safety and regulatory requirements as applicable
• Demonstrate performance improvement and efficiency
• Support the implementation of agreed continuous improvement initiatives, monitors, quality and devises systems to support continuous improvement
• Conduct audit checks to ensure that correct data is being recorded and correct payments are being made to employees
• Provide support with analysis and calculations required for ongoing Holidays Act Remediation payments
• Develop and run reports to ensure employee data is of a high quality and complete
• Implement MECA configurations
• Actively seek to identify and recommend opportunities for continuous improvement, bringing forward ideas for solutions

Our ideal candidate for this role will:

• Have a minimum of 3 years payroll experience in payroll in the health sector
• Have a sound understanding of the Holidays Act and experience working with Holidays Act remediation and rectification
• Experience in payroll system implementations and documenting payroll processes
• Experience in large volume data analysis
• Thrive under time pressures
• Have the ability to analyse data and problem solve
• Work well independently yet also be an active contributor within the wider team

Working for Health New Zealand

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is ‘the weaving of wellness’. We're dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of Aotearoa/New Zealand. The Equity Work Programme at Health NZ focuses on helping everyone in the health system think about equity when they do their work. It also promotes the cultural change needed for the whole system to reach equity in health outcomes.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Health New Zealand are committed to being good employers and honouring our equal employment opportunity obligations.

Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

• We want to see the real you in your application and welcome the real you on board if you come and work with us. Skills are gained across many areas of our life, not just in formal employment. If you can demonstrate the skills listed in the ad, but the experience was gained through whānau life, community or mahi aroha (volunteering) we encourage you to apply and share your story with us in your cover letter.
• We particularly welcome applications from our diverse Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.

How to Apply

To view the position description, click HERE and/or apply for the role please click “apply now.” All applications must be submitted through our online careers portal. If you have any questions about the role, please contact Kylie Brightwell at Kylie.Brightwell@hbdhb.govt.nz

Please note, we will be reviewing applications when received and may proceed with the recruitment process, before the closing date of this advert.