Payroll Transformation Project Lead – ANZ

12-Month Maximum-Term Contract | Australia & New Zealand

We’re looking for an experienced Payroll Transformation Project Lead to take a key role in a major payroll and workforce management transformation across Australia and New Zealand.

This is an prospect to lead the end-to-end migration of an acquired business from its existing payroll and workforce management platforms onto our client target-state solutions, working across both technology and the detailed payroll requirements that make a transformation successful.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Leading the end-to-end payroll and workforce management system migration across ANZ.
- Managing project delivery, milestones, risks, dependencies and key deliverables.
- Working with implementation partners to drive configuration and solution design.
- Leading payroll and workforce management data migration, testing, reconciliation, parallel runs and cutover .
- Ensuring the new solutions accurately reflect Australian and New Zealand payroll requirements.
- Working through complex Awards, Enterprise Agreements, leave, accruals, terminations and statutory requirements .
- Supporting integration between payroll, time & attendance and finance systems.
- Coordinating stakeholders across ANZ
- Supporting the business through go-live and post-implementation stabilisation .

The systems

- Payroll: ADP




- Time & Attendance / Workforce Management: Dormakaba

You’ll ideally bring:

- Proven experience delivering Australian and New Zealand payroll implementations or migrations .
- Strong knowledge of Awards, Enterprise Agreements and payroll interpretation .
- Deep understanding of ANZ payroll processes, including leave, accruals, terminations and statutory requirements.
- Hands-on experience with data migration, testing, parallel payroll, reconciliation and cutover .
- Experience integrating payroll with time & attendance/workforce management and finance .
- Strong project and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working across complex, multi-country or multi-business environments.
- The ability to operate at both the project leadership level and the detailed payroll/system level .

Why this role?

This is more than a payroll implementation support role. You’ll be at the centre of a significant business transformation , helping shape how payroll and workforce management operate across ANZ and taking the business through to a successful go-live.

We’re ideally looking for someone who can start in the near term and has a track record of delivering complex, end-to-end payroll technology transformations.

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