Payroll Specialist - Time & Labour Management

Are you an experienced payroll professional with solid expertise in workforce time and attendance management? This is an exciting opportunity to join a high-performing Payroll Operations team during a period of transformation and continuous improvement.

Working within a complex payroll environment across Australia and New Zealand, you'll play a key role in supporting payroll integrity, workforce management processes, system enhancements, and operational excellence. This newly created position offers the opportunity to make a genuine impact, shape future processes, and work alongside a collaborative and supportive team.

What's on Offer:

- Locations: Brisbane, Sydney or Melbourne
- Join a business committed to continuous improvement and operational excellence
- Exposure to payroll operations across Australia and New Zealand
- Opportunity to contribute to ongoing payroll and workforce management transformation initiatives
- Collaborative, supportive and customer-focused team environment

Are you an experienced payroll professional with strong expertise in workforce time and attendance management? This is an exciting opportunity to join a high-performing Payroll Operations team during a period of transformation and continuous improvement.

Working within a complex payroll environment across Australia and New Zealand, you'll play a key role in supporting payroll integrity, workforce management processes, system enhancements, and operational excellence. This newly created position offers the opportunity to make a genuine impact, shape future processes, and work alongside a collaborative and supportive team.

What's on Offer:

- 12-month fixed-term contract
- Locations:



Brisbane, Sydney or Melbourne
- Join a business committed to continuous improvement and operational excellence
- Exposure to payroll operations across Australia and New Zealand
- Opportunity to contribute to ongoing payroll and workforce management transformation initiatives
- Collaborative, supportive and customer-focused team environment

About the Role:

As a PayrollTime & Labour ManagementSpecialist, you will be responsible for supporting the daily operation of payroll and workforce time management activities, ensuring accuracy, compliance and an exceptional employee experience.

You will act as a key point of contact for payroll and time-related enquiries, support system testing and enhancements, contribute to governance and compliance activities, and help drive process improvements across the function.

Key Responsibilities:

- Investigate and resolve payroll enquiries with a focus on time and attendance, leave management, scheduling, roster maintenance and workforce records
- Provide advice and support on payroll and workforce time management processes
- Develop and maintain process documentation, user guides and training materials
- Perform payroll validation and control activities to ensure accuracy, compliance and data integrity




- Support troubleshooting of workforce management system issues and assist with defect resolution
- Participate in system testing, upgrades, enhancements and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Prepare payroll and workforce reporting and support audits, compliance reviews and governance activities
- Identify, assess and elevate payroll and workforce management risks while ensuring appropriate controls are maintained
- Provide guidance and support to employees, leaders and team members on payroll and workforce management processes
- Partner with internal stakeholders and external service providers to enhance service delivery and achieve business outcomes
- Identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives to increase efficiency, accuracy and customer experience

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

- Proven experience working within a payroll function, ideally in a medium to large organisational environment
- Strong knowledge of workforce time and attendance management processes
- Experience working with payroll and workforce management systems such as UKG, ADP or similar platforms
- Sound understanding of payroll legislation, modern awards, enterprise agreements and compliance requirements
- Previous experience supporting system enhancements, testing activities, defect management and UAT
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
- A team-oriented, customer-focused approach and commitment to delivering high-quality outcomes
- A proactive mindset with a passion for process improvement and operational excellence

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📌 Payroll Specialist - Time & Labour Management (Brisbane)
🏢 Ethos BeathChapman
📍 Brisbane