We're partnering with an established Australian business looking for a Payroll & Systems Manager to take ownership of the
technology, configuration and controls sitting behind its payroll function
.
This one is for the payroll people who secretly enjoy breaking things in the test environment just to figure out how to make them better.
Despite the title, running payroll is only a small part of the week. The real prospect is getting under the hood of the systems, testing changes, troubleshooting issues and finding smarter ways of doing things.
Who are you?
You probably started your career in traditional payroll and gradually realised your favourite part was
figuring out how everything works behind the scenes
.
You're curious, technically minded and naturally look beyond the immediate problem. If something goes wrong, you don't just fix it. You want to understand
why it happened and how to stop it happening again
.
You're also comfortable operating autonomously and translating technical payroll problems into practical advice for stakeholders.
Day to day
You'll become the internal go‐to across the organisation's
payroll and Time & Attendance environment
, with plenty of ownership across:
Payroll system administration and configuration
T&A; rules, pay codes and work rules
Testing changes in sandbox environments
Troubleshooting system and integration issues
System upgrades and enhancements
Data integrity and security
Automation and process improvement
Payroll reconciliations, audits and controls
Month‐end and year‐end requirements




You'll still retain oversight of the monthly payroll, but the actual processing takes
less than one full day each month
.
You'll also report directly to the
Group CFO
, partnering across Finance, People & Culture, Operations and IT.
What's in your toolkit?
You know payroll deeply enough to understand how
Awards, EBAs and compliance requirements translate into system rules and payroll outcomes
.
Ideally, you'll bring:
Strong payroll systems experience
Time & Attendance knowledge
Configuration, testing and troubleshooting capability
Modern Award and EBA interpretation skills
Strong Australian payroll compliance knowledge
Advanced Excel skills
Previous end‐to‐end payroll experience
Confidence working autonomously
Experience with
iChris and UKG
would be brilliant, but it's not essential. Strong transferable payroll systems experience is absolutely welcome.
What's in it for you?
This level of technical payroll ownership
without needing to work five days a week
doesn't come around often.
******* FTE
Hybrid flexibility
Systems‐heavy rather than processing‐heavy
Genuine autonomy and SME ownership
Direct exposure to senior leadership
Plenty of optimisation and automation work
The Bottom Line
If your favourite payroll questions are
"Why is the system doing that?"
and
"How can we make this work better?"
, this one has your name all over it. It's technical, autonomous and improvement-focused, with enough payroll to keep you connected to the function, but nowhere near enough to have you stuck processing all week.
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📌 Payroll & Systems Manager (Melbourne)
🏢 SAMUELS DONEGAN
📍 Melbourne