Melanie Rodda

Company Overview: Manufacture plant and Dairy beverages, protein powders and protein bars. Brands include - Milklab, Australia's Own, Vital Strength, Crankt, Uprotein, So Natural and Vitalife

• Running end to end payroll for Fortnightly and monthly employees for multiple entities. Total of 560 staff
• Month End reporting - Super, PAYG, Child support, Garnishee, Union and Health Insurance
• Year end processing
• Ensuring company compliance with Award legislation - Food, Beverage and Tabacco Manufacturing Award and EA
• Workcover payments
• Adhoc projects

Company Overview: Study Group is a Global company who owns and operates colleges, and partners with higher education institutions to provide pathway programs on campus to international students.

• Lead a team of 4 payroll officers, increasing team productivity through targeted training and development initiatives
• Orchestrated the processing for 2,500 employees (Fortnightly) for both New Zealand and Australia, overseeing compliance and data integrity, achieving 98% accuracy
• Resolving staff inquiries and concerns
• Ensure Payroll policies, procedures and workflow changes and internal controls are in order
• Ensuring company compliance with Award legislation - Educational Services (Post-Secondary Education) Award and 6 different EA’s within Study Group
• Create, review and distribute various payroll reports to support financial projections, audits, HR reviews and compliance issues
• Liaise with external auditors in relation to statutory reporting and audit queries
• Year End processing for both Australia and New Zealand
• Month end processing of - PAYG, Payroll Tax, Superannuation and IRD
• Ensuring Worker compensation actuals were submitted yearly
• Work with ACC team to ensure all ACC payments are paid accordingly
• Ad hoc projects which include - Annual salary reviews, Acquisitions, New Payroll System implementation
• Liaise with Human Resources with Business restructure
• Played a pivotal role in handover of the payroll after an Entity business sale
• Setting up New Entities for employees who were not part of the sale agreement
• Trained overseas based payroll staff from China and England in the Australian and New Zealand payroll
• Key Achievements
• Implemented new Payroll policies, procedures and workflow changes and internal controls in order to assure efficient and effective results that were in compliance with company policies, Award and EA legislation
• Worked alongside Senior staff members and new company senior staff to ensure a successful transition of the payroll during and after the sale
• Reasons for leaving
• Redundancy - due to the Australian and New Zealand business being sold

Company Overview: Fitness First is a large gym group that opened in Australia in 2000 and has over 70 clubs and over 240,000 members. The payroll department reports into Finance

• Managing a Team of 4 - 6 Payroll Officers
• Overseeing the processing and distribution for 3,000 employees (Fortnightly and Monthly)
• Resolving staff inquiries and concerns
• Ensure Payroll policies, procedures and workflow changes and internal controls are in order
• Ensuring company compliance with Award legislation - Fitness Industry, Children Services, Clerks - Private Sector, Storage Services and Wholesale and Manufacturing and Associated Industries
• Create, review and distribute various payroll reports to support financial projections, audits, HR reviews and compliance issues
• Conduct training for all Employees, supervisors and managers on processes related to the Time-entry system
• Recruit and Train professional and qualified payroll Officers to maintain accuracy in the process and achieve results
• Liaise with auditors in relation to statutory reporting and audit queries
• Year End processing
• Month end processing of - PAYG, Payroll Tax and Superannuation
• Ad hoc projects which include - Annual salary reviews, Club Closures, Acquisitions, Implementation of Enterprise Agreement
• Key Achievements
• Implemented new Payroll policies, procedures and workflow changes and internal controls in order to assure efficient and effective results that were in compliance with company policies and Award legislation
• Worked alongside the HR Team to ensure a successful implementation of a new Enterprise Agreement for 3,000 employees
• Worked with Operations and HR to ensure a smooth transition of a payroll system
• Won Department of the Year voted by employees within the business
• Reasons for leaving
• Redundancy - due to payroll being outsourced after sale

Company Overview: Recruitment Company - Staffing the world since 1946. Kelly Services Australia have Offices in all major capital cities nation-wide and operate across industries such as Accounting & Finance, Engineering, Scientific, Government and Industrial & Trades.

• Leading and mentoring a team of 3
• Co-ordinating Payroll staff work loads
• Overseeing the day-to-day activities of the department
• Processing end to end payroll for 3,000 Temporary staff on a weekly basis
• Running and sending out weekly client invoices
• Processing end to end payroll for 200 Permanent staff Fortnightly
• Running Superannuation monthly
• Processing Terminations, ETP’s and Redundancies
• End of Month payments - Child Support, Garnishee
• Assist with Year End
• Resolve employees Payroll queries and Client queries
• Key Achievements
• Won Payroll Specialist of the Year 2005 (Awarded by TAPS)
• Reasons for leaving
• Redundancy

• Organized design readiness assessments
• Prepared and conducted PowerPoint presentations
• Organized communication strategies
• Organized new system training for employees
• Assisted with the design and content of the training materials
• Assisted with planning of the new organizational design
• Worked with the stakeholders and management to ensure a smooth-running project
• Reasons for leaving
• This was a project role and moved back to Kelly Services Australia

Company Overview: Large International Hotel

• Room Attending
• Room Supervisor
• Reservations
• Client Services
• Problem Solving
• Front Office Reception
• Reasons for leaving
• Wanted a more challenging career