Sr. Specialist - HRO - Payroll & Benefits 4C

Sr. Specialist - HRO - Payroll & Benefits

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Job Description

Payroll Operations & Delivery

• Manage end-to-end payroll operations for all employees across Australia and New Zealand, ensuring accurate, timely wage calculations, payments, and deductions, including all statutory and regulatory components.

• Oversee payroll schedules to hit deadlines consistently, and manage end-to-end termination processing – final pay, Employment Termination Payments (ETPs), redundancy, leave encashments, and statutory reporting.

• Administer employee leave entitlements accurately – annual, personal, long service, parental, and termination-related payouts.

• Lead day-to-day operational delivery with efficient query management and timely resolution, and support the team on challenging stakeholder interactions and high-priority escalations to other service lines.

Compliance, Governance & Audit

• Ensure end-to-end compliance with Australian payroll legislation – Fair Work Act, National Employment Standards, Modern Awards, Enterprise Agreements, and applicable federal and state regulations – alongside New Zealand requirements.

• Interpret and apply Modern Awards and Enterprise Agreements accurately: classifications, overtime, penalty rates, allowances, shift loadings, public-holiday payments, and leave entitlements.

• Manage PAYG withholding, Single Touch Payroll (STP) reporting and annual finalisation, Superannuation Guarantee and SuperStream compliance, and payroll tax across states and territories – registrations, reconciliations, lodgments, and statutory reporting.

• Monitor and implement legislative and regulatory change (Fair Work, ATO, Superannuation, Wage Theft, Payroll Tax, state obligations), and validate employee and contractor classifications to mitigate misclassification risk.

• Maintain payroll governance, internal controls, and audit processes; keep records, employee data, and payslips to legislative standards and audit-ready; and coordinate with client auditors and regulatory bodies during audits.

• Identify and drive compliance measures to minimise risk, and stay abreast of internal policy and external legislation so the advice payroll provides is accurate.

Leadership & Team Oversight

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of payroll officers and analysts (8–10+), building a culture of accountability, service excellence, and continuous improvement.

• Set SLAs, KPIs, and quality benchmarks; monitor data, performance, and escalations; and coach the team on metrics, managing performance where needed.

• Liaise with Quality Coaches on quality-assurance monitoring for consistent performance feedback, and give new team members a strong onboarding experience.

• Manage cyclical performance reporting, internal and external, with continuous-improvement plans, and support the team on their goals and capability.

Systems, Process & Data Integrity

• Manage payroll systems and software, ensuring data integrity and security across all systems and processes.

• Drive automation, streamlining, and best practice to improve efficiency, and collaborate with client IT and HRIS teams on system upgrades and integrations.

Stakeholder Collaboration & Employee Support

• Address employee payroll queries promptly, and communicate pay policies and procedures clearly.

• Partner with HR on compensation, benefits, and employee-relations matters, work with Finance to reconcile payroll accounts and support budgeting and forecasting, and provide payroll insights and reports to senior leadership.

• Collaborate with other Service Leads on day-to-day requirements and future improvements or projects.

Strategic Initiatives

• Develop payroll policies and procedures aligned with organisational goals, and lead projects across payroll transformation, mergers and acquisitions, or expansion.

• Keep employees satisfied through transparent, responsive payroll operations.

Qualifications – Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, HR, or a related field.

• 5–8 years of Australia and New Zealand payroll experience, including leading complex, high-volume payroll, with at least 2–3 years in a supervisory or leadership role.

• Strong working knowledge of Australian payroll legislation – Fair Work, Modern Awards, NES, PAYG, STP, Superannuation, Payroll Tax – and New Zealand legislation and the relevant Enterprise Agreements.

• Demonstrated experience managing payroll compliance in a complex, multi-state Australian environment, with a proven ability to interpret legislation and implement the resulting process changes.

• Experience with HRIS and payroll systems (SuccessFactors, UKG Pro, and SAP an advantage), and knowledge of Excel macros and Google Sheets for calculations.

• Strong analytical, audit, risk-management, and stakeholder-management skills, with a focus on compliance, governance, and continuous improvement.

• Excellent organisational and communication skills.

• Compensation & Benefits

  • Continuously evaluate salary structure: benchmarking, address compression/legacy ranges, remove unnecessary ranges and improve governance/templates.
  • Maintain and update salar