Are you a payroll and remuneration specialist who enjoys looking beyond process and compliance to build scalable systems, governance frameworks and workforce solutions?

An exciting opportunity exists to join a rapidly growing, private equity-backed organisation undergoing significant business transformation. Following a series of acquisitions, the organisation is focused on integrating people, payroll and workforce management practices to support continued growth and operational excellence.

This newly created role offers a rare blend of payroll governance, remuneration oversight, systems implementation and business integration. It is ideal for someone who enjoys creating structure, driving continuous improvement and influencing how a growing organisation operates into the future.

About the Role Reporting into a collaborative people leader, you will play a critical role in helping the business standardise and optimise payroll, remuneration and workforce management practices across multiple operating entities.

A key initial priority will be supporting the implementation and successful embedding of a new HRIS and payroll platform. Beyond the implementation phase, you will take a strategic view of payroll governance, remuneration processes, workforce data and systems integration, ensuring the organisation is well-positioned for future growth and acquisition activity.

Key Responsibilities

- Support the implementation, adoption and optimisation of a recent HRIS and payroll platform.
- Establish and maintain payroll governance frameworks, controls and compliance processes.
- Lead remuneration activities including annual salary reviews, incentive administration and remuneration reporting.




- Drive process standardisation across multiple legacy operating environments.
- Partner with HR, finance and business leaders to streamline workforce management practices.
- Improve workforce reporting, systems integration and people data capability.
- Develop scalable payroll and remuneration frameworks to support ongoing business growth.
- Provide insights and recommendations to support strategic workforce and remuneration decisions.

About You
You are a commercially minded payroll, remuneration or HR systems professional who enjoys connecting people, processes and technology.

You will bring:

- Strong experience across payroll, remuneration and governance.
- Experience working with HRIS and payroll systems (Employment Hero experience highly regarded).
- A systems-thinking approach and the ability to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Experience establishing frameworks, controls and scalable processes.
- Robust stakeholder engagement and change management capability.
- Resilience, adaptability and comfort working within evolving environments.
- Experience in transformation, integration, acquisition or high-growth organisations will be highly regarded.

If you are looking for a role that combines payroll governance, remuneration, systems optimisation and organisational transformation, we'd love to hear from you.

This is an initial 6 - 12 month fixed term contract which is likely to go perm.

This role is 4 days in the office in North Sydney and 1 day from home.

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For specific questions about this role, please contact Vicki Treeby at [email protected]

📌 Payroll, Remuneration and People Systems Manager (Sydney)
🏢 The Next Step
📍 Sydney