Assistant Payroll Manager - $140/150,000 + Super + Profit Share! - Syd North West

Assistant Payroll Manager | Newly Created Leadership Role | Profit Share

Lead a team. Shape a function. Leave a legacy.

This is a phenomenal and newly created opportunity to join a payroll team that has grown from four to 25 in the last five years!

This highly successful Australian organisation with a strong reputation for operational excellence, has created a brand-new Payroll Leadership role — and it's a genuinely exciting one. This is your chance to take full ownership of a large, complex payroll function and lead one of their payroll teams through a period of real transformation.

What's On Offer

• Payroll first (Maybe!) with the Payroll Department being autonomous from HR and Finance and reporting to the CEO!
• Executive backing and visibility from day one on a role built especially for you
• Career runway that grows as the business does
• The chance to drive change that actually moves the needle
• A fabulous salary package + a business that genuinely cares for it's employees with Profit Share after 12 months
• New systems implementation project on the horizon as they continue to scale up at pace
• On-site parking and gym access, because convenience matters
• North West location, modern offices with 1 day WFH per week after your first 3 months but also flexible on an adhoc basis

Key Responsibilities

• Reporting to the Head of Payroll, you'll take end-to-end ownership of a medium sized payroll team for approximately 4,000 employees while driving process improvement, automation, and modernisation across the function.
• Deliver accurate, on-time fortnightly and monthly payroll across a large, multi-entity operation
• Keep everything airtight — Awards, leave, super, tax, terminations and statutory compliance, covered
• Lead, coach and build a team that performs and grows under your leadership
• Champion automation and AI-enabled tools to drag payroll processes into the future
• Run audits, reconciliations and control reviews that keep risk firmly in check
• Work hand-in-glove with HR and operational leaders to level up the employee experience
• Spearhead transformation projects that ripple out across the wider business

About You

• 5+ years of Australian payroll leadership experience from a large and complex big business environment
• Proven leadership of high-volume payroll teams, including senior payroll staff
• Deep expertise in payroll legislation, compliance, governance and risk management
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge the status quo
• Demonstrated success leading payroll projects and transformation initiatives
• Excellent leadership, communication, organisational and prioritisation skills
• A stable career history with consistent tenure in payroll leadership roles

*Full JD available upon submitted resume application

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