About the role:
As our Payroll Administrator, you’ll provide essential support to our Payroll Specialists to help deliver smooth, accurate weekly pay cycles for Foodstuffs South Island and our member stores.
You’ll work in a fast-paced, high-volume environment where precision matters and learning is encouraged. With structured training and support, you’ll grow your understanding of payroll systems, legislation, and best practice. This role has become available due to an internal promotion, reflecting the development opportunities available within the team.
You’ll join a close-knit group of nine and report to the Payroll Manager. The team is collaborative, focused, and supportive – professional in delivery, relaxed in culture.
What you’ll do:
Entering and maintaining payroll data such as new hires, changes, and terminations
Supporting the payroll cycle through documentation tasks – checking, scanning, and filing
Building knowledge of payroll systems, processes, and legislation
About you:
You’ll have some administration experience and be keen to deepen your knowledge and build a career in payroll. You’ll be comfortable working within defined processes and consistently deliver accurate, high-quality work. Dependable and detail-conscious, you’ll take ownership of your responsibilities and enjoy supporting a team committed to excellence.
Ideally, you’ll also bring:
Experience in administration or data entry, ideally in a structured or high-volume setting
A strong interest in payroll and employment compliance
Accuracy, consistency, and a methodical approach to task management
Confidence working with systems and a fast, accurate typing style
A calm and steady approach – able to work to tight deadlines without compromising on quality
A growth mindset, with a commitment to learning and development
Don't Meet Every Requirement? We encourage you to apply anyway. We are looking for individuals with diverse experiences and are keen to hear from those who believe they have the drive and potential to succeed in this role.
How to apply:
Ready to take on the challenge? Click “apply” to apply for the role! Applications will close
11:59pm Sunday 8 June 2025
and will only be accepted via our careers site. We aim to hold interviews between 16 and 21 June 2025.
If you have any questions about the role, or experience any issues submitting your application, please email careers@foodstuffs-si.co.nz
Why join us?
Our approach to flexible working is based on trusting and empowering our people to manage their time and deliver results while balancing the needs of their personal lives.
We’re committed to equitable outcomes, and we offer additional paid parental leave, free period products and financial health checks to name a few.
We support your wellbeing with Southern Cross health insurance for you and your family after a qualifying period, discounts at local gyms, access to online wellbeing tools, and a prayer and privacy room onsite.
We offer continuous learning and professional growth, as well as access to our extensive online training library and endless opportunities.
We’re proud of our supportive team environment, and our positive and friendly culture that’s made fun by Furry Friend Fridays and monthly social events!
We’re a Pride Pledge organisation, and we are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives, every day and we celebrate our diversity as strength.
Our Papanui based office has free carparking, an in-house café.
About us:
We’re a team of 14,000 who make sure South Islanders have access to the groceries and essentials they need. Proudly 100% Kiwi-owned and operated, our co-operative has more than 200 PAK’n SAVE, New World, Four Square, and On the Spot stores feeding the South Island.
We value being at the heart of our communities, like we’ve always been, to make the South Island a better place – for today and for many generations to come. From sunny Golden Bay all the way to Stewart Island, there’s a Foodstuffs store serving you and your whānau.
Our success is down to our people who bring their skills, experience, passion, and expertise to make Foodies an amazing and rewarding place to work. Our co-op has a wide variety of roles to offer, and endless opportunities for development.
Our values:
At Foodies, together we drive success to be our best and care for our whānau. We recognise that it takes a collective effort to achieve success, and we thrive on fostering a culture of collaboration to drive innovation and embracing challenges as a united team. We are committed to supporting our people, and to positively impact the lives of South Islanders every day.
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