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Role: SAP Payroll Technical Lead - Product & System Owner (Internal Title: ICT Product & System Owner - SAP Payroll)

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

Shape the future of Goodstart’s payroll technology

Goodstart is seeking an experienced SAP Payroll Product & System Owner to manage the operational performance and technical support of the solution.

As the technical and product owner of our SAP ECC 6.0 HCM/Payroll solution, you will ensure this critical platform remains stable, secure, compliant and aligned with Goodstart's business needs. This role requires significant hands-on experience in the administration, configuration, support and optimisation of SAP ECC HCM/Payroll, with accountability for maintaining day-to-day operational performance and delivering system improvements.

You will combine deep SAP Payroll expertise with product ownership, stakeholder engagement and vendor management to drive continuous improvement and deliver reliable payroll outcomes for our people. While an understanding of Australian payroll legislation is desirable, more importantly, you will have demonstrated experience assessing, implementing, testing and deploying legislative and compliance-related payroll changes within SAP Payroll environments to ensure accurate and compliant payroll processing.

You will also play a key role in Goodstart's payroll technology transformation by supporting the program of work to deliver our future-state payroll solution, including the transition when this work commences. Exposure to or working knowledge of SuccessFactors solutions will be highly regarded.

Your Impact:





As part of the Corporate Services ICT team, you'll be the primary subject matter expert for the SAP ECC 6 Payroll platform. Working closely with Payroll, Employee Services, ICT teams, business stakeholders and external service partners, you will:

- Own the SAP Payroll product strategy, roadmap and prioritised backlog.
- Lead the hands-on administration, configuration, technical support and optimisation of SAP ECC 6.0 HCM/Payroll.
- Ensure the ongoing stability, performance, supportability and availability of the payroll platform.
- Deliver system enhancements, payroll configuration changes, legislative updates and compliance-driven improvements.
- Assess, implement, test and deploy legislative, award and payroll-related changes within the SAP Payroll setting.
- Oversee payroll integrations between SAP ECC, SAP SuccessFactors and other business systems.
- Coordinate impact assessments, testing, transport management, deployment activities and business readiness.
- Lead production support, incident resolution, problem management and root cause analysis.
- Strengthen payroll system governance, controls, reconciliation processes and audit readiness.
- Manage relationships with SAP and external service partners to support performance,



service delivery and continuous improvement.
- Identify opportunities to improve platform performance, reliability and user experience.
- Support and contribute to the program of work delivering Goodstart's future-state payroll solution, including SAP S/4HANA and SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll initiatives

What Goodstart can offer you:

- Flexible work arrangements giving you choice about when and how work will be done in order to bettermanage your work and non-work needs
- Salary packaging benefits available through AccessPay (eligibility applies)
- Access to discounted childcare (up to 15%)
- Fitness Passport - access to gyms and pools for you and your family at a heavily discounted price
- Discounted health care and access to employee wellbeing program with BUPA
- Exclusive discounts on travel, gym memberships, Apple and Dell products, and more.
- Free annual flu shot (optional)
- Option to purchase extra leave for even greater work life balance
- First Nations Support and Cultural Leave
- Work for a company that has an aspiration to be globally recognised for early years practice and learning outcomes
- Gain significant investment in your growth and development with support, tools, training and experiences that will truly enhance the progress and outcomes for children in their earliest years.

You’ll bring to the table:

- At least five years' experience providing hands-on support, systems administration, configuration and maintenance of SAP ECC HCM/Payroll environments.
- Strong technical knowledge of SAP ECC 6.0 HCM/Payroll, including payroll sche

📌 SAP Payroll Technical Lead (Brisbane)
🏢 Goodstart Early Learning
📍 Brisbane