General Manager – Remuneration & Payroll

Sydney | $200k–$250k + Super + up to 20% Bonus | Hybrid

AccountAbility is partnering with a large, complex national organisation to appoint a General Manager – Remuneration & Payroll.

Reporting directly to the Executive General Manager – People & Culture, this is a senior leadership chance combining Remuneration & Reward strategy with executive oversight of a complex national payroll function.

The remuneration portfolio will be a key focus of the role. We are looking for an experienced Reward leader who has moved beyond administering established processes and can demonstrate genuine experience designing and evolving remuneration frameworks and total reward structures.

The role will include

- Remuneration framework design and ongoing development
- Design and governance of total reward structures
- Ownership of annual salary review and remuneration planning processes
- Remuneration benchmarking, market analysis and salary structures
- Governance and continuous improvement of STI, bonus, incentive and pay-for-performance programs
- Workforce cost analysis, reporting and remuneration governance
- Executive oversight of a large, complex national payroll function
- Payroll governance, compliance, controls and audit
- Leadership within a complex Award and Enterprise Agreement environment
- Partnership with Executive Leadership, Finance, Operations and People & Culture




- Continued improvement across payroll, remuneration, reporting and supporting technology

About you

You will be an established senior Remuneration, Reward or Total Rewards leader with the capability and credibility to operate at GM level.

Importantly, you will be able to demonstrate tangible examples of where you have designed or significantly evolved remuneration frameworks, rather than solely administering annual remuneration processes.

You will ideally bring a combination of:

- Deep expertise across Remuneration, Reward and Benefits
- Proven remuneration framework and total reward design experience
- Strong salary benchmarking and market analysis capability
- Experience designing or governing incentive and performance-linked reward programs
- Senior leadership and executive stakeholder management
- Experience overseeing payroll or strong knowledge of payroll governance and compliance
- Exposure to large, operational and/or industrially complex workforces
- A commercial, analytical and contemporary approach to Reward

This is an opportunity to take ownership of two critical functions and help shape how Reward, Remuneration and Payroll operate within a large and evolving organisation.

Package: $200k–$250k + super + AICP bonus of up to 20%

Working model: Hybrid – 3 days in the office

CBD based.

📌 GM Remuneration & Payroll (Sydney)
🏢 Accountability
📍 Sydney