The Company
I’m currently partnering with a large national organisation within the health sector to recruit an experienced Payroll Manager.

The organisation employs approximately 4,000 employees nationally and has a long-tenured finance team with strong leadership and low turnover.
Payroll sits within the Finance function, reporting directly to senior finance leadership, and plays a critical role in supporting the organisation’s continued growth.

Benefits

• Leadership role overseeing a large national payroll function
• Stable organisation with a long-tenured and supportive finance team
• Opportunity to contribute to payroll improvements and a Dayforce system transition
• Hybrid working arrangement (2–3 days in the office)

Key responsibilities 
This role will take ownership of payroll operations while leading a team across multiple locations.

• Managing a payroll team of 6–7 staff across Australia and offshore
• Overseeing weekly payroll processing for approximately 4,000 employees across multiple entities using Affinity
• Ensuring payroll compliance including superannuation, payroll tax and legislative obligations
• Managing payroll journals, reconciliations and reporting into Finance
• Partnering closely with Finance and HR stakeholders
• Providing leadership, coaching and development to the payroll team
• Supporting payroll process improvements and operational efficiencies
• Assisting with the transition to a new payroll system (Dayforce)

About You
You will be an experienced payroll professional who enjoys leading teams and managing complex payroll environments.

• Experience managing payroll for large organisations (3,000+ employees)
• Strong proven leadership capability 
• Excellent knowledge of Australian payroll legislation and compliance
• Experience with Dayforce is highly desirable 
• Exposure to payroll system implementations or transformations