Culture + Benefits:

• Join an influential global business with a strong Australian presence
• East & South East office locations with onsite parking
• Excellent progression opportunities

About the Company:

We’re partnering with a well-established manufacturing company seeking a proactive Payroll Team Leader to join their growing team. This is a fantastic opportunity to step into a leadership role where your initiative, technical expertise, and decision-making skills will be highly valued.



About the Role:

• Own end-to-end payroll delivery for Australia and New Zealand, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, compliance with legislation, and appropriate payroll controls across all pay cycles
• Lead the ongoing management and optimisation of Paytools, including maintaining payroll checklists, ensuring consistent system use, managing key payroll dates, and improving automated notifications.
• Oversee employee data maintenance in the payroll system, ensuring changes such as remuneration and bank details are accurate, authorised, and processed correctly.
• Act as the primary payroll point of escalation for the business, building strong partnerships with HR, Finance, and operational leaders, and ensuring payroll advice is accurate, timely, and clearly communicated.
• Lead, mentor, and support the payroll team, providing guidance on complex queries, award interpretation, and best-practice processes.
• Monitor compliance with taxation, superannuation, and Fair Work obligations, staying updated on relevant changes to legislation.

Skills and Experience

• Proven payroll leadership experience with hands-on processing capability
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, along with the ability to deal with escalations
• Experience with various complex EAs and Industrial Instruments
• Exposure to both Australian and New Zealand payroll is highly regarded
• Hospitality award interpretation experience beneficial
• Knowledge of MicrOpay and ConnX are desirable, not essential

If this role sounds like you, then please APPLY NOW!



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