Payroll Specialist

We're looking for an experienced Payroll Specialist to join our team on a fixed-term basis and make a meaningful impact across our payroll function. This is an exciting opportunity to bring your deep payroll expertise to a role that combines technical excellence, governance, and people-focused support.

Working closely with the Payroll Team Leader, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring payroll processes are accurate, compliant, and delivered to the highest standard, while driving continuous improvement through system enhancements, process optimisation, and best-practice payroll governance.

You'll also provide expert advice on complex payroll matters, support and mentor payroll team members through training and knowledge sharing and deliver a valued advisory service to employees and leaders alike. With the opportunity to strengthen controls, this role offers the chance to leave a lasting impact in a high-performing payroll environment.

Your Role in Action  

• Champion payroll excellence by ensuring compliance, identifying and mitigating risks, and driving continuous improvements across payroll processes, systems, and controls.
• Lead the implementation and testing of payroll system upgrades, legislative changes, enterprise agreement updates, and policy enhancements, ensuring accurate and timely delivery.
• Provide trusted expert advice on complex payroll matters, delivering a responsive and high-quality advisory service to employees, leaders, and key stakeholders.
• Process fortnightly and off-cycle payruns accurately and in a timely manner.
• Partner closely with HR and IT teams to interpret industrial agreements, policies, and payroll requirements, ensuring consistent and compliant outcomes.
• Monitor payroll integrity through audits, reconciliations, and detailed reviews of payroll calculations, taxation, superannuation, salary packaging, and pay-related transactions.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance payroll procedures and documentation, while actively training and educating team members to build capability and knowledge.
• Build strong collaborative relationships across the business and act as a role model for exceptional customer service, supporting a positive employee experience.
• Support the Payroll Team Leader by coordinating team activities when required, fostering a positive team culture, and contributing to a safe, high-performing work environment.

What Makes You a Great Fit 

• Proven experience in a senior payroll role within a large and complex organisation, with expertise across awards and enterprise agreements, rostering, shift work, overtime, allowances, reimbursements, and salary packaging.
• Strong SAP payroll experience, with the ability to confidently manage system updates, testing, and process enhancements.
• Well-developed knowledge of payroll legislation, taxation, superannuation, and employment frameworks, with the ability to interpret policies and industrial instruments accurately.
• Demonstrated ability to identify compliance risks, solve complex payroll issues, and drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance accuracy, efficiency, and governance.
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder engagement skills, with a customer-focused approach and a commitment to delivering trusted advice and support.
• Relevant qualifications and/or significant experience in payroll, compliance, auditing, or a related discipline, coupled with a collaborative mindset, sound judgement, and high attention to detail.

Applications close on 6 August 2026

We value diversity and inclusivity, encouraging applications from all backgrounds, including women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and LGBTQIA+ communities. As a WORK180-endorsed employer for women, we are proud of our commitment to inclusion.

 You can learn more about this through our Reconciliation Action Plan and Disability Access and Inclusion Plan. 

Please note, this role reports to Derrick Oriaifo. For further details or to discuss the role, please reach out to Lauren Gaskill.

Employee Type: Maximum Term

Level: S6.1P

Location: Perth Office 570  

Position Description Number: 70700756