Work Type: Fixed-term - Full-time
Salary: $100,894 - $114,476
Grade: VPS 4
Occupation: Accounting, finance and procurement
Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs
Reference: 11799
About Us
The Department of Government Services (DGS) was established on 1 January 2023 to improve everyone's experience of doing business and interacting with the Victorian government. We bring important day-to-day services together in one department to make things easy and seamless for Victorians and businesses. We are doing this by connecting and digitising our systems and platforms across state and local government as well as streamlining our corporate and procurement services.
The People and Culture Operations Branch
The People and Culture Operations Branch provides HR operational support and services to the Department of Government Services, customer departments and their portfolio agencies, to create a high performing workplace that puts people first. The People and Culture Operations Branch includes the following functions:
About the Role
Reporting to the Payroll Service Lead, the Payroll Adviser is responsible for ensuring payroll entries in SAP SuccessFactors are entered accurately, in line with the VPS Enterprise Agreement and departmental policies, ensuring supporting evidence has been provided as necessary. The Payroll Adviser role also has responsibility for processing complex payroll transactions including superannuation, redundancies and separations, overpayments and WorkCover.
There are 2 Fixed Term roles available for a period of 14 months. These positions are only open to applicants with relevant rights to work in Australia.
For more information and the key selection criteria, please see the Position Description.
How to apply:
Apply before the advertised closing date 11:59pm on Monday, 3 August 2026. All applications should include:
Other relevant information:
To be eligible for appointment to this role, applicants will possess corresponding work rights for the advertised employment period. Appointment to an ongoing role is only available to an Australian/New Zealand citizen or an Australian Permanent Resident. Preferred candidates will be required to complete a Pre-employment Declaration and Consent Form. Employment of successful candidates will be subject to a National Police Check.
The department is committed to providing and maintaining a working environment which is safe and without risk to the health of its employees and clients and consistent with the department's obligations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (OH&S Act), to support this DGS has a COVID-19 Vaccination policy which strongly recommends all DGS employees be fully vaccinated.
DGS actively promotes diversity, inclusion and an equal opportunity workplace. All roles at DGS can be worked flexibly, however it may differ from role to role.