Job Description
Payroll Manager
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Busy Bees is a leading global, early learning provider, offering high-quality education in nurturing, purpose-built centres where educators are supported to grow, lead and make a real difference in children's lives, with over 130 centres across Australia and around 3,000 employees.
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Bee Safe: Child safety is at the heart of everything we do and is embedded in our people, places and processes. Help us give every child the Best Start in Life.
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We're seeking an experienced and collaborative Payroll Manager to lead our national payroll function, strengthen our people and processes, and drive the continued optimisation of our payroll systems. This role is a hybrid role based at our National Support Centre in Nundah on a full-time, permanent basis.
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What you'll do
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Lead and manage the end-to-end fortnightly payroll function, ensuring accurate and timely processing for our national workforce of approximately 3,000 employees.
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Lead, mentor and develop the payroll team, providing guidance, support and accountability while building capability across the function.
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Oversee payroll compliance, including Modern Award and EBA interpretation, PAYG, Payroll Tax, Superannuation Guarantee and Workers Compensation obligations.
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Review and approve payroll payments, manage complex payroll matters and oversee quality control audits to maintain a high level of payroll accuracy.
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Manage external audit queries.
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Drive process and system improvements, manage internal and external stakeholder relationships and support the ongoing efficiency of the payroll function.
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What you'll bring




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A genuine commitment to child safety and wellbeing & alignment to our Busy Bee values.
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Significant experience leading a complex, high-volume payroll function, ideally within a large or multi-site organisation.
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Strong knowledge of Australian payroll legislation, Award interpretation, Enterprise Agreements and employment conditions.
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Experience leading, mentoring and developing a payroll team, with a hands‐on and collaborative leadership style.
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Strong systems capability, with experience across payroll technology and a passion for automation, integration and process improvement.
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Why Busy Bees?
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Because we offer the B.E.E.S. advantage:
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Better pay. Everyday balance. Education for growth. Support you can rely on.
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We live by our values of Care, Quality, Service, and Value to make a real impact on child safety and quality.
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Nundah location – conveniently located close to public transport, with street parking and shops, cafés and everyday amenities just moments away.
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Join a long-standing, experienced payroll team that values collaboration, knowledge sharing and supporting one another.
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Enjoy 1 day working from home each week, along with flexible start and finish times.




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Access 50% childcare gap-fee discounts for permanent staff, because your family should benefit too.
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Build your network across Busy Bees Australia and explore opportunities through our Global Talent Exchange Program across the UK, Canada and Asia.
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Be part of a growing global organisation with a local feel, where people, child safety, wellbeing and quality are genuinely valued.
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Work alongside approachable leaders and an inclusive team in a culture built on trust, respect and collaboration.
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Employment is conditional on satisfactory, rigorous pre-employment checks (including WWCC, ID, Qualifications, Gecko Training, Work Rights & References) and child safety training, reflecting our strong commitment to safeguarding, equity, diversity and inclusion.
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We are proud to be a child secure organisation, putting child safety at the heart of everything we do through our Triple Layer Child Safety Framework: trusted, trained and caring people, safe, supervised and supportive environments, and clear, consistent and transparent processes.
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Why Work for Busy Bees?
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If you're passionate about early learning, Busy Bees is the place to be. Although we are part of a global organisation, our company was founded by three families looking for better, more enriching childcare. Three decades later, we still keep the same values at heart.
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We know that we couldn't do what we do without the important people in our teams. We invest in our people and work with them to build career pathways that inspire.

📌 Payroll Manager (Queensland)
🏢 BUSY BEES AUSTRALIA EMPLOYER
📍 Queensland