People Operations Specialist

Life at Webjet

Webjet is Australia and New Zealand’s Number 1 online travel agency ✈️! Join us as we lead the way in online travel tools and technology. We empower our customers to compare, combine and book the best flight deals – whether you’re travelling domestically or internationally. But we don’t stop there, Webjet is a one-stop shop for all things travel! We have your accommodation, packaged holiday deals, tours, travel insurance and car hire (worldwide!) sorted.

Our team is based in Melbourne and we support our team’s work-life balance through a Hybrid working model. We’ve taken a company-wide approach to office days, bringing the team in Tuesday & Wednesday for collaboration, fun events and food!

The Team and Opportunity

The People Team supports and guides the business across the employee lifecycle from Recruitment through to onboarding, performance coaching, payroll and offboarding. You'll report into the Head of People and Talent Acquisition and work closely with your (fun and passionate!) team mates, the People Partner, Payroll Manager and Office Manager.

This newly created People Operations Specialist role will support the People team to manage the employee lifecycle, payroll and have a key focus on documentation and optimisation of processes. This role will also be responsible for ensuring employee data is accurate for payroll, and reporting requirements.

In this role you'll work on:

• Managing and enhancing the entire employee lifecycle, including onboarding, offboarding and internal movements.
• Supporting our Payroll Manager with Payroll processing and administrative tasks to ensure a smooth payroll process
• Being our Systems Administrator and work on optimising our suite of HR Systems - ELMO, KeyPay Payroll and Culture Amp
• Building and distributing regular HR Metrics reports and responding to ad-hoc reporting requests, including WGEA Reporting
• Providing assistance and guidance to internal stakeholders on a broad range of HR policies, programs and practices
• Developing Key Stakeholder relationships, that encourage and facilitate new initiatives to support and enhance HR systems and processes
• Updating and maintaining the Super User, Employee and Manager guides for our systems to accurately reflect the employee lifecycle and processes

What we love to see:

• A Bachelors degree in HR, Business or similar degree
• Demonstrated experience in a HR Operations/Generalist role
• Exposure and interest in Payroll processing
• Demonstrated proficiency in MS Office, particularly in Excel

Why Webjet?

• We thank our team with an annual $250 Webjet gift card, free travel insurance and discounted travel across the Webjet offering via webjet.com.au
• An annual hackathon that the whole company gets involved in, ideas born on our Hackdays often make it into production and the winner needs to be in production within 12 months!
• An extensive events calendar, when we say we’re fun – we mean it.
• We support you through one of life’s biggest moments, providing up to 12 weeks of paid parental primary leave and 2 weeks of secondary carer parental leave.
• Have a big trip planned or thinking of school holidays? We offer purchased additional annual leave!

Want to learn more? Check out our social media pages below and keep in touch:

• Webjet Careers
• LinkedIn
• Instagram

Recruitment Agency represented candidates will not be considered.

Successful candidates joining Webjet are required to undergo a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights on an ongoing basis.