Job Description

Assistant Payroll Manager | Newly Created Leadership Role | Profit Share

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

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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.

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What's On Offer

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

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- 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.
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- Deliver accurate, on-time fortnightly and monthly payroll across a large, multi-entity operation
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- Keep everything airtight — Awards, leave, super, tax, terminations and statutory compliance, covered
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- Lead, coach and build a team that performs and grows under your leadership
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- Champion automation and AI-enabled tools to drag payroll processes into the future
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- Run audits, reconciliations and control reviews that keep risk firmly in check
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- Work hand-in-glove with HR and operational leaders to level up the employee experience
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- Spearhead transformation projects that ripple out across the wider business
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About You

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- 5+ years of Australian payroll leadership experience from a large and complex big business environment
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- Proven leadership of high-volume payroll teams, including senior payroll staff
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- Deep expertise in payroll legislation, compliance, governance and risk management
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- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge the status quo
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- Demonstrated success leading payroll projects and transformation initiatives
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- Excellent leadership, communication, organisational and prioritisation skills
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- A reliable career history with consistent tenure in payroll leadership roles
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📌 Assistant Payroll Manager - $140/160,000 Super Profit Share! - North West (New South Wales)
🏢 Absolute Payroll
📍 New South Wales