Job Description
Who we are
Employment Hero is on a mission to make employment easier and more valuable for everyone. Our Employment Operating System brings hiring, HR, payroll and benefits into an all-in-one solution.
Since our inception in 2014, we’ve scaled to a $2 billion valuation and gained a presence in 6 countries globally - Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, the UK and Canada. We now service over 300,000 businesses and more than 2 million employees.
The EH Way
At Employment Hero, we’re proud of our unique DNA, which we call The EH Way.
- We are Mission First - everything we do (from what we work on, to how we allocate capital and where we focus) is driven by our Mission
- We are Remote First - we champion a remote environment with a preference for asynchronous communication and a high degree of autonomy
- We are AI First - we are committed to using AI to accelerate our mission; AI is not just a tool, it’s a fundamental part of how we operate, innovate, and scale
- We are Apolitical - we do not take a position on political or social topics, unless it relates to our Mission
- We Live by Our Values - we role model our values 100% of the time
- We Expect High Performance - we set a high standard and we’re not satisfied with being average
This role
As a Payroll Support Consultant, you’ll be working within our Customer Experience team and will be responsible for gathering information from customers and ensuring their continued support and success after implementing our Employment Hero product. In this role, you will be supporting our customers to ensure accuracy and will be responsible for resolving customer tickets efficiently and effectively. This includes addressing customer issues with professionalism and care, and escalating to the appropriate teams where necessary.
Your key focus areas will be:
- Providing timely and accurate support to customers post go-live, ensuring payroll accuracy and confidence in using the EH platform
- Resolving support tickets efficiently while delivering a high level of customer care and professionalism
- Reducing ticket escalation volume through proactive troubleshooting, clear communication, and strong product knowledge
- Enhancing the customer experience by contributing to process improvements, product feedback, and support documentation
This will include
- You will provide support to clients after they 'go-live' by walking them through updates needed or how to troubleshoot in a variety of ways, such as award interpretation and platform configuration
- Responding to and resolving customer tickets, calls and queries related to the Employment Hero Platform in a timely manner.
- Assist and collaborate with the wider squad and support team to provide best practice system use and education to all our customers.
- Proactively analyse and understand product functionality across the platform and logic in detail; and testing in platforms to identify user error/system logic and related root causes by maintaining comprehensive awareness of product changes and enhancements.
- Conduct/triage customer support issues and assign to the appropriate team or resolve where possible.
- Take on client and team payroll escalations for our customers
- Assist with requirements gathering to run post mortems and run internal support team workshops
- Escalating issues related to bugs or product logic/functionality concerns as necessary, in collaboration with Seniors/Team Leads and the Product Team.
- Working with customers across multiple channels (email, chat, phone, screen share) to understand their organisational workflow and how the platform can support them to maximise their people processes.
- Managing Problem Tickets with urgency and collaborating with key stakeholders to resolve as quickly as possible
- Leveraging ZenDesk, Salesforce and other internal tools for maintaining records, ticket investigations and referencing customer interactions, transactions, comments, and complaints in accordance with service level agreements (SLAs)
- Proactively contribute feature requests, Customer Care Processes, Macros and Help Centre suggestions, where warranted and using customer insights.
Who you are
To thrive at Employment Hero, you’ll need to embody The EH Way - operating with focus, agility, and an obsession with impact. For this role, you’ll also bring
- Relevant Australian and/or New Zealand Payroll knowledge and industry experience.
- Previous experience in setting up, implementing and/or administrating payroll systems (knowledge of EH Payroll/KeyPay is a plus!).
- Exposure to working in fluid, high change and high velocity environments.
- Prior exposure to customer experience within a SaaS (Software as a Service) environment.
- An attitude that always puts your customer's needs first
- Problem solving skills with a sound and thorough approach to troubleshooting.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, working autonomously; requesting assistance where needed.
- Strong and polished verbal and written communication skills.
What we can offer
At Employment Hero, we don’t just talk about a better way to work - we live it. Joining Employment Hero means
- You will work remotely, with the flexibility to own your time and impact
- You will access cutting-edge tools to amplify your work, knowledge and outputs
- You’ll surround yourself with ambitious, outcome-driven colleagues who challenge you to do the best work of your life
- You’ll own ESOP (employee share options) in one of the world’s fastest-growing tech companies
- You’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits that includes - a very generous paternity leave policy, subsidised egg freezing (so you can make the choice that’s right for you, on your terms), a WFH office expense budget, and outstanding learning & development opportunities
At Employment Hero, we are committed to safeguarding the privacy of your application data. To understand how we do so, you can read our Applicant Privacy Policy here employmenthero.com/legals/applicant-policy/
Employment Hero celebrates diverse perspectives and experiences, we invite people of all backgrounds and identities to apply for this position.
Job Tags
Remote job, Work at office, Work from home,