Assistant Payroll Manager | Newly Created Leadership Role | $160k+Super + Profit Share

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

Our client, a stable and growing Australian organisation with a strong reputation for operational excellence, is creating a brand-new Assistant Payroll Manager role — and it's a genuinely exciting one. This is your chance to take full ownership of a large, complex payroll function and lead a team of 8 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
- Be part of an exciting new payroll system implementation project
- 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
- Robust 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 To hear about all the other opportunities Absolute Payroll currently has, or if you want to refer a friend/colleague or just to have a discussion about your career, you can contact Peter Allan on (phone hidden) | [email protected]

📌 Assistant Payroll Manager - $140/ + Super + Profit Share! - North West (Sydney)
🏢 Absolute Payroll
📍 Sydney