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
- In office parking and gym access, because convenience matters
- North West location, up-to-date 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

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