• Manage payroll processing for multiple countries, ensuring accurate and timely processing of payroll for all employees in the global workforce. • Ensure compliance with local tax laws, labor regulations, and other legal requirements for payroll in multiple countries, staying up to date with changes in legislation. • Oversee the gathering, processing, and verification of payroll data across various regions. Ensure payroll data integrity, accuracy, and consistency. • Identify and implement improvements to payroll processes to increase efficiency, reduce errors, and enhance the employee experience. • Generate and analyze payroll reports, and provide insights and recommendations to senior management regarding payroll metrics, budgeting, and forecasting. • Work closely with HR, Finance, and other departments to ensure smooth payroll operations, including providing guidance and resolving issues as needed. • Oversee relationships with third-party payroll vendors, ensuring services meet company requirements and performance standards. • Support the implementation and maintenance of global payroll systems (e.g., ADP Workforce Now, DEEL, Workday) and assist with system upgrades, testing, and troubleshooting. • Lead internal and external audits of payroll records, ensuring compliance with both local and international standards. • Handle escalated payroll queries from employees, providing support in a timely and efficient manner.

• Provide strategic, best-practice HCM and payroll advisory by interpreting complex client requirements and shaping robust, scalable SAP solutions • Lead end-to-end SAP Payroll and/or Employee Central Payroll (ECP) programs, ensuring architectural integrity, regulatory compliance, and alignment with Australian Payroll standards • Redesign, document, and optimise payroll and HR business processes to drive operational efficiency and transformation outcomes • Own solution design activities, including effort estimation, gap analysis, prioritisation, and the development of implementation roadmaps • Oversee the build and testing of solution prototypes, guide configuration across project teams, and manage cutover readiness • Define the overall testing strategy, develop and review test scripts, lead execution cycles, and ensure resolution of defects and design gaps • Direct data migration planning (including historical payroll results and infotype mapping) to ensure a controlled and accurate transition • Deliver high-quality training, coaching, and knowledge transfer to client stakeholders to ensure long-term sustainability of the solution.