Senior Payroll Officer

About Our Client

Our client is a highly recognisable, private equity-backed business known for its strong market presence and continued growth.

They take a proactive and mature approach to payroll compliance, with well-established systems, governance, and continuous improvement initiatives already in place.

You'll be joining a business with a fantastic leadership team, a collaborative culture, and a genuine focus on employee experience.

Additional benefits include:

• Excellent employee benefits program
• Strong hybrid working model
• Genuine flexibility around start and finish times
• A culture that values improvement, accountability, and teamwork

Job Description

• End-to-end processing of fortnightly payroll cycles across multiple entities and states
• Manage payroll activities including new starters, terminations, redundancies, and out-of-cycle payments
• Perform reconciliations across payroll, GL, superannuation, and statutory requirements
• Ensure compliance with STP, payroll tax, and superannuation obligations
• Respond to employee and stakeholder queries with a strong service focus
• Support audits and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives
• Produce reporting and maintain data integrity across SAP and SuccessFactors systems
• Collaborate with Finance and People teams on projects and process enhancements

The Successful Applicant

• Proven experience in a Senior Payroll Officer position, managing end-to-end payroll
• Strong knowledge of multi-state payroll and legislative requirements
• Experience with SAP payroll
• High attention to detail with strong analytical capability
• Proactive, solutions-focused mindset with the ability to identify process improvements
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities

What's on Offer

• Join a stable, growing and well-backed organisation
• Work within a high-performing, supportive payroll function
• Exposure to large-scale payroll operations and systems
• Genuine work-life balance with flexibility built in
• Opportunity to contribute to projects and continuous improvement initiatives